MURDER THREAT
MADE AGAINST PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ARREST BY SECRET SERVICE AGENTS. ALLEGED SINISTER LETTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CROCKETT (California), October 25. Secret service agents arrested Willard Whiting, aged 33, a-sugar refinery worker, on a charge of threatening the life of President Roosevelt. It is alleged that Whiting sent a letter to President Roosevelt stating: “If you are reelected in November your life won’t be worth a cent, because this time we will get you and not the man in front of you.” After President Roosevelt's first election the Mayor of Chicago, Mr. Cermak, was shot dead while in the company of Mr. Roosevelt at Miami.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 5
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