U.S. TRIALS
THE DEATH SENTENCE.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
KANSAS CITY, July 27,
Walter McGee was sentenced “to death to-day by the criminal court, the jury of which convicted him of kidnapping Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of a city manager 'in ‘Kansas Oity; It is the.first ease in which the extreme penalty has been assessed in the United States crusade against kidnappers, one of the few in history to bring the death sentence, where the victim was unharmed.
OTHER CHARGES.
CHICAGO, July 27
A blanket, indictment charging A 1 Capone, Dr. Benjamin M. Squires, Aaron Sapiro and twenty-one others, on conspiracy charges, including bomb.tigs, window smashing, and. restraint of trade, was returned by the country grand juty, to-day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1933, Page 6
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