THE REEFER MADNESS ERA


ANSLINGER'S GORE FILE
Crimes Committed While
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL MARIHUANA

PART VI



MURDER / HITCHHIKING
Name: Sandra Peterson   Date: Aug. 26, 1949   Location: Brady Tx.


What the Narc's were claiming
Newspaper headlines tell the story every day. The recent hitch-hike robbery and murder of an innocent citizen involving a young 18-year-old girl and her 15-year-old companion, who admitted she was under the influence of marihuana, is but one grim example of the current tendency toward drug addiction by young people. -- Congressional Record 1950

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
WAUKESHA DAILY FREEMAN

[ Aug. 26, 1949 pp2 ] "Tough, Pretty Divorcee Held for $50 Murder"
[Jan 18, 1950 pp8 ] "Girl, Witness in Texas Murder Trial, Says She Killed Real Estate Man"
[Aug. 28, 1949 pp.1] "Faces in the News"
VALLEY MORNING STATE
(Harlingen Texas)
[Aug. 31, 1949 pp7] "Disowning by Parents No Surprise to Accused Girl"
[Jan 4, 1950 pp 1] "Girl Indicted For Murder"
[Jan 17, 1950 pp.10] "Sandra Peterson 'Grows Up'; Trial for Murder Underway"
[Jan 18, 1950 ] "Death to be Asked For Sandra Peterson"
[Jan 19, 1950 pp1] "State Witness Changes Story, Says She Held Murder Gun"
[Jan 21, 1950 pp1] "Peterson Girl Found Guilty"
SHEBOYGAN PRESS

[Jan 19, 1950 pp15] "State's Witness Insists She Killed Texas Motorist"
SEDALIA DEMOCRAT
[Aug 29, 1949 ] picture story
[Jan 20, 1950 ] "Doesn't Know Whether She Was Killer"
RENO EVENING GAZETTE

[Aug 31, 1949] "Murder Suspect Is Young Runaway"
[Aug 26, 1949 pp3] "Woman Murder Suspect Once Lived in Reno"
THE NEWS (Frederick Md)
[Aug 31, 1949 pp 6] picture "Held for Murder"
INDEPENDENT RECORD
(Helena Montana)
[Jan. 22, 1950 pp2] "Girl Is Sentenced to Life for Death of Texan"
[Jan 18, 1950 pp1] "15-Year Old Girl Declares She Shot Texas man"
COSHOCTON TRIBUNE (Ohio)
[Jan 21, 1950 pp 3] Picture "Admits Slaying"
[Jan 21, 1950 pp 1] "Girl Convicted of Murder Despite Her Companion's Claim"
CHARLEROI MAIL
[Jan 28, 1950 pp5 ] "Girl Given Life in Texas Slaying"


RAPE / KIDNAPPING
Name: Robert Kimmich 16 and Jack Marable 40   Date: Jan 04, 1940   Location: Olympia, Washington

NAME JACK MARABLE
AGE 40
RACE WHITE
SEX MALE
OCCUPATION ESCAPED CONVICT
CRIME KIDNAPPING
METHOD HANGING
DATE JAN 04 1940
COUNTY THURSTON


EXECUTION BLOTTER
(state of Washington)


What the Narc's were claiming
1939 - M Teenage, attempted rape G. Raloff under influence marihuana and bay rum. -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2 (Mrs. Geraldine Roloff = victim)

1939 - R. Kunnich - M - Teenage, attempted rape G. Raloff, under influence marihuana and bay rum. - Life imprisonment -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965

1939 - J Morable - M - 40 - Raped G. Raoff, while under influence marihuana and bay rum, and threatened to kill her children with knife. Trial: Guilty. - Hung -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965

1939 - M 40 Raped G. Raloff, while under influence marihuana and bay run and threatened to kill her children with knife. -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
NEBRASKA STATE JOURNAL
(Lincoln Nebraska)
Nov 12, 1939 pp1. "Convict 2 in Kidnapnig" (sic)


POLICE OFFICER MURDERED
Name: Arthur Friedman Michael Foley (Victim)   Date: Jan 27, 1939   Location: New York, New York

NAME ARTHUR FRIEDMAN
AGE 21
RACE WHITE
SEX MALE
OCCUPATION GANGSTER
CRIME MURDER
METHOD ELECTROCUTION
DATE JAN 26 1939
COUNTY NEW YORK


EXECUTION BLOTTER
(state of New York)


What the Narc's were claiming
Arthur Friedman, twenty-one, was one of five youths charged with the fatal shooting of Detective Michael J. Foley in a restaurant holdup.

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL

[S- Jan 27, 1939 pg. 10] "Three young Killers Die in Electric Chair"
CHRONICLE TELEGRAM
[S- Jan 27, 1939 ] "Three Executed For Killing Policeman"


MURDER
Name:Name: Tony Chebatoris   Date: Oct. 1937   Location: Midland MI.

NAME ANTHONY CHEBATORIS
AGE 38
RACE WHITE
SEX MALE
OCCUPATION ?
CRIME MURDER
METHOD HANGING
DATE July 8, 1938
State MICHIGAN


EXECUTION BLOTTER
(Federal Government)


Not A Federal Gore Case
What the Narc's were claiming

In Midland, Michigan, a man named Chebatoris confessed to bank robbery and murder. Though Michigan has no provision for capital punishment, Chebatoris was sentenced to death under Federal law and was later executed at Milan, Michigan, prison farm. A "reefer" addict, he testified to smoking two marihuana cigarettes before "pulling the job." -- "Assassin of Youth" (Book) 1954 By Robert Devine

In Midland, Michigan, a man named Chebatoris confessed to bank robbery and murder. Though Michigan has no provision for capital punishment, Chebatoris was sentenced to death under Federal law and was later executed at Milan, Michigan, prison farm. A "reefer" addict, he testified to smoking two marihuana cigarettes before "pulling the job." -- Moloch Of Marihuana (1945) Robert James Devine

A man in Michigan was executed at the prison farm for robbery and murder. He, a reefer addict, said that he smoked two marihuanas before "pulling the job." -- Enemies Of Youth ( Book) 1939

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
Hammond Times
- No Mention Of Marihuana is made??
Oct 28, 1937 pp5 - "Bank Bandit is Identified"
Oct 20, 1937 pp4 - Federal Jury Indicts First Robber-Killer Under New U.S. Law"
Nov. 4, 1937 pp18 - Federal Jury Indicts First Robber-Killer Under New U.S. Law"
APPLETON POST-CRESCENT
July 8, 1938 pp.2 - Federal Execution of Robber-Killer Is First in Michigan in 108 Years.
The Charleroi Mail
Oct 29, 1937 - pp1 - "Suicide Try by County Man in Michigan Jail"
Daily Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids
Oct. 29, 1937 pp3 - "Bank Robber Tries Suicide"
Nov. 3, 1937 - pp3 - "Justice Dep't. in Quandry Over Robber's Execution"
Helena Independent
July 9, 1938 - pp1 "Execution in Michigan Held Despite Protest"
Evening Sentinel - Holland Michigan
Feb. 3, 1937 pp9- "Michigan Was First To Abolish Death Penalty"
Ironwood Daily Globe - Ironwood Michigan
Nov. 9, 1937 pp1. "Find Chebatoris Could Be Put to Death in Michigan"
Nov. 10, 1937 pp1. "Robber Is Given Death Sentence"
Nov. 1, 1937 pp1 "Chebatoris is Taken to Detention Farm"


MURDER(s) / ROBBERY
Name: TATE, CALVIN and HALL, WILLARD   Date: Jan 17, 1936   Location: Kentucky


EXECUTION BLOTTER
(state of KENTUCKY
NAME CALVIN TATE WILLARD HALL
AGE 21 33
RACE WHITE WHITE
SEX MALE MALE
OCCUPATION PAROLEE PAROLEE
CRIME MURDER-ROBBERY MURDER-ROBBERY
METHOD ELECTROCUTION ELECTROCUTION
DATE JAN 17, 1936 JAN 17, 1936
COUNTY JEFFERSON JEFFERSON

What the Narc's were claiming
Still another center is Louisville, for the good reason that Kentucky is one of the largest hemp-growing states in the Union. . And, certainly, marihuana was blamed for one of the most wanton murders Louisville has known in the last five years. In this crime, twenty-year-old Calvin Tate, with three accomplices, attempted to hold up a filling station operated by an elderly man. Their plans failed, a boy pulled a gun and the station owner was killed. In their rush for freedom, they killed two other men, neither of whom attempted to halt them. The first was standing on a corner outside the station waiting for a bus. The second, attracted by the shots, was walking in his front yard when Tate and the only other gunman in the quartet, Willard Hall, ran past. Captured, Tate admitted being at the station with Hall during the holdup but said he was "muggle-headed" at the time. This was his defense to police. It wasn't enough and a jury sent him, with Hall, to the electric chair. -- DESIGNS IN SCARLET By Courtney Ryley Cooper 1939

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL

[Jan 17, 1936 pp12] "Two Electrocuted For Killing Three in Holdup in Kentucky"
HAMMOND TIMES (Hammond Indiana)
Jan. 14, 1936- "Two men are put to death"
NEVADA STATE JOURNAL
[Jan. 17, 1936 pp2] "Two Electrocuted"


RAPE / KIDNAPPING
Name: Robert Kimmich 16 and Jack Marable 40   Date: Jan 04, 1940   Location: Olympia, Washington

EXECUTION BLOTTER
(state of Washington)
NAME JACK MARABLE
AGE 40
RACE WHITE
SEX MALE
OCCUPATION ESCAPED CONVICT
CRIME KIDNAPPING
METHOD HANGING
DATE JAN 04 1940
COUNTY THURSTON


What the Narc's were claiming
1939 - M Teenage, attempted rape G. Raloff under influence marihuana and bay rum. -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2 (Mrs. Geraldine Roloff = victim)

1939 - R. Kunnich - M - Teenage, attempted rape G. Raloff, under influence marihuana and bay rum. - Life imprisonment -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965

1939 - J Morable - M - 40 - Raped G. Raoff, while under influence marihuana and bay rum, and threatened to kill her children with knife. Trial: Guilty. - Hung -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965

1939 - M 40 Raped G. Raloff, while under influence marihuana and bay run and threatened to kill her children with knife. -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
NEBRASKA STATE JOURNAL
(Lincoln Nebraska)
Nov. 12, 1939 pp1. " Convict 2 in Kidnapnig" (sic)


MURDER
Name:Name: Eddie Gaines   Date: May 1967   Location: Saginaw MI.

What the Narc's were claiming
Saginaw, Mich., June 6, 1967---Two Saginaw patrolmen stopped at a local restaurant to obtain food. One officer entered the restaurant while his partner waited in their scout car. A man followed the policeman into the restaurant and, without provocation or comment, shot the officer three times In the back killing him on the spot. The defendant was killed by the officer's partner in an ensuing gun battle. A companion of the murderer stated that he and the dead defendant had parked across the street from the restaurant and smoked a number of marihuana cigarettes. When the police car pulled up in front of the restaurant, the murderer announced he was going to kill one of the officers for kicks. -- Congressional Record -- April 4, 1968

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
HOLLAND EVENING SENTINEL
(Holland, Michigan)
[May 22, 1967 pp. 5] "Officer Slain, Assailant Hurt In Gun Battle"
[Oct. 9, 1967 pp7 ] "Man Convicted"


PARKING LOT SHOOTING
Name: Joseph Bouchie   Date: Oct. 1967   Location: Ypsilanti MI.

What the Narc's were claiming
Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct 29, 1967---A man pulled Into a drive-in parking lot and, without provocation, shot and seriously wounded four patrons. The suspect was under the influence of marihuana at the time of this shooting and has a long record of habitual marihuana use. -- Congressional Record -- April 4, 1968

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE

[Oct 30, 1967 pp3] "Police Seek Parolee, 24"
HOLLAND EVENING SENTINEL (Holland, Michigan)
[Oct 30, 1967 pp 16] "Seek Young Man, Girl Friend in Shooting of Four"
VAN WERT TIMES - (Ohio)
[Oct. 31, 1967 pp1] "Former MP Resident Is Shot In Detroit"


BRUTAL MURDER(s)
Name: William Eddington, Ronald L. Johnson --Dr. Archie Claytor (Victim)  Date: Feb. 1967   Location: Saginaw MI.

What the Narc's were claiming
Saginaw, Mich., January-February 1967--- Two men robbed two elderly women at gunpoint. On February 2, 1967, one of these men and another companion forced their way into the home of a doctor. The suspects sexually assaulted the physician's 65-year old wife, then bludgeoned the doctor and his wife to death with a hammer. They shot both dead bodies several times and left them lying in the house. The original two criminals were arrested. One admitted using marihuana to get up his nerve before both of the above crimes, the other admitted using marihuana, just before the armed robbery. -- Congressional Record -- April 4, 1968

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
HOLLAND EVENING SENTINEL
(Holland, Michigan)
[Feb 7, 1967] "Police Seek Two Suspects In Slayings"
[Feb 14, 1967 pp.1] ""Two Men Face Charges in Slayings"
[Feb 13, 1967 ] "Authorities Hold two Men In slayings"
[Feb 15, 1967 pp.10] "Suspect Came From Split Home"
THE POST-STANDARD (Syracuse N.Y.)
[Feb 3, 1967 pp.1] "Find Physician and Wife Slain"


MURDER (Aunt)
Name: Vance Henderson   Date: Oct. 1935   Location: Denver Co.

What the Narc's were claiming
Recently residents of Denver, Colo., were shocked when Vance Henderson 27, shot down and killed his aunt, Mrs Elona Wells, 44, mother of four children. Henderson was allegedly under the influence of marihuana. Out of funds and unable to find a job, he was living with his aunt. Mrs. Wells was washing dishes one Saturday evening when Henderson entered the house. His eyes were glazed and fixed in a corpse-like stare, his face set in a menacing scowl. He strode to the refrigerator in the kitchen and pulled out a platter of venison. He stared at it angrily for a moment, then snarling, dashed it to the floor. When his aunt berated him he dashed upstairs. -- Addict Shoots Own Relative -- In another moment he swept back into the kitchen brandishing a revolver. Pointing it at his aunt, he pulled the trigger. Mrs. Wells died a few days later. Police caught Henderson staggering down a street a block from the Wells home. Questioned about the shooting, he pulled his hair and screamed, "I'm crazy! You're all crazy! There was no shooting in that house! What if I did kill her?" He was placed in a solitary cell, where he continued to scream like a madman. Investigation revealed that Henderson had bought several marihuana cigarettes from a Mexican peddler that evening and had smoked them. The next day, after recovering from the disastrous effects of the weed, Henderson again was told of the shooting. He refused to believe that he ever had a gun in his possession the night before. -- The Sunday Oregonian - Feb. 23, 1936

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
RENO EVENING GAZETTE
(Reno Nevada)
[Oct. 26, 1935 pp1] " Nephew Is Held In Death Case"
[Oct. 28, 1935 pp2] "Slaying Charge Faced By Man"


MURDER (Grandmother)
Name: Donald Holloway   Date: March 1934   Location: Denver Co.

What the Narc's were claiming
A Denver policeman entered a restaurant to get a cup of coffee. An addict named Holloway followed and attacked him. The officer beat his assailant unconscious with his club. Some time later, Holloway ran amuck, attempted to shoot his wife, missed her and mortally wounded her grandmother. Police and Holloway shot it out for more than an hour. Then the addict turned his gun on himself, dying almost instantly. -- Inside Detective (Magazine) Nov 1937

"A man under the influence of the drug attempted to shoot his wife but killed her grandmother instead and then committed suicide." -- Sierra Educational News - Nov. 1938 [California Teachers Association]

It is believed that Steve Halloway the Denver youth who ran amuck some months ago, had actually been drinking the drug, to get a bigger kick out of it, by mixing a marijuana cigarette with water and sugar. He beat a policeman almost to death, painfully wounded his grandmother and killed himself when trapped by police. -- Real Detective Magazine April 1935

"In Denver, Colorado, agents of the Federal Narcotic Bureau had made arrangements with one Halloway for a purchase from a plant" of stolen cocaine. It was generally known that Halloway was addicted to Marihuana and that a short time before, in a restaurant, he had made an unprovoked assault upon a policeman in full uniform who had entered to get a cup of coffee and who had to club Halloway into unconsciousness. Nevertheless, the night before a purchase of cocaine was to be completed, Halloway AGAIN RESORTED TO THE USE OF MARIHUANA, ran amuck, attempted to shoot his wife, mortally wounded her grandmother and, after shooting it out with police officers, finally killed himself.' --The drug Demon (pamphlet) 1940]

". . in Colorado a husband tries to shoot his wife, kills her grandmother instead, and then kills himself. -- Chicago Tribune Jan 17, 1962 pg 5 -- "Reefers: A Fast Road Downhill" by Harry J. Anslinger; Will Oursler

In Denver, Colorado, a marijuana devotee, after smoking a few reefers, grabbed a gun, tried to kill his wife then mortally wounded his grandmother. Police were rushed to the scene of this shooting, and a gun battle ensued between the killer and the officers. As the officers closed in, the man turned the gun on himself. When they reached him, be lay dead in a pool of blood. -- Narcotics: America's Peril by Will Oursler (1952)

Holloway's Shooting and Suicide Due to Dope -- In Denver authorities had made arrangements with one Holloway for a purchase of stolen cocaine. It was generally known that Holloway was addicted to marihuana and that a short time before in a restaurant he had made an unprovoked assault upon a policeman in full uniform who had entered to get a cup of coffee and had to club Holloway into unconsciousness. --- The night before a purchase of cocaine was to be completed Holloway again resorted to marihuana, ran amuck, attempted to shoot his wife, but mortally wounded his grandmother, and after shooting it out with police officers killed himself. -- Denver Post - Feb 24, 1935 Sec 3 page 2

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
Reno Evening Gazette
- (Reno Nevada)
[March 21, 1934 pp.5] "Matron is Slain During Family Quarrel"


YOUNG BOY IS GROWING MARIHUANA)
Name: Date: Aug 23, 1949   Location: San Jose, Ca.

What the Narc's were claiming
On August 23, 1949, at San Jose, Calif., a 19-year-old youth was arrested for the unlawful possession and cultivation of marihuana. The marihuana, which was found growing in the flower garden of his residence, was admittedly for his own use. In a statement to the arresting officers this boy stated that he had read in the public library a copy of the mayor's report on Marihuana Problems. Because it gave him the definite impression that marihuana was not harmful or habit forming, he decided to try smoking it. He stated further that as far as he was concerned the mayor's report is erroneous on practically all points. He said he had to have marihuana now and that was why he had been growing it. -- The Traffic in Opium and other dangerous drug (1949)

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
SAN JOSE MERCURY:

[e Aug. 24, 1949] "Officers Find Marijuana Garden Here" -- "Youth in Marijuana Patch Blames Fiorello"
[e Aug. 25, 1949] "Accused Marijuana Grower to Answer in Superior Court"
[Note, this became a national case with Anslinger putting the blame on those trying to reform the anti medical marihuana laws]


NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
Date: Jan/Feb 1935   Location: St. Louis

What the Narc's were claiming
A newspaper in St. Louis reported after an investigation this year that it had discovered marijuana "dens," all frequented by children of high-school age. The same sort of story came from Missouri, Ohio, Louisiana, Colorado - "Marijuana, assassin of youth" By H.J Anslinger - July 1937

For example, a few years ago the startling discovery was made in St. Louis scores of youngsters of high school age had become victims of the weed. A St. Louis paper at the time quoted one gentleman of the byways as saying, "The worst thing about that loco weed is the way these kids go for them. Most of them, boys and girls, are just punks and when they get high on the stuff you can write your own ticket." ----- The story is told by the same newspaper of a young man who became an addict and had eventually to be confined in an institution for the mentally diseased. In referring to him, one of his friends told an investigating reporter that "he was a swell fellow until marihuana got him. Like the rest of us, he thought the weed wasn't habit-forming and had no idea of the possible consequences of smoking it. He smoked so many he couldn't quit. Finally he went crazy and his folks put him in a sanitarium." Further quotations from the St. Louis paper, which illustrate what occurred among the young people who became victim of this weed through the encouragement of the peddlers, who made claims of the weed's value as a "love potion" and as the means by which they could easily become "the life of the party", follow: Among these is the story of a girl student, still in her teens, who told a reporter she had seen some of her friends under the influence, and named a boy and a girl who had lost their senses so completely after smoking marihuana that they eloped and were married. --- INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL DIGEST - Sep, 1937

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
ST. LOUIS STAR TIMES:
[Proof exists that this newspaper knew that it was lying]
[e Jan. 17, 1935] "Latest Evil Here, The Dope Cigaret, Menacing Youth"
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg. 1] "Young slaves of dope Cigaret traffic pay tragic price for their folly"
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg. 1] "Asks Ban on Sate of Marijuana".
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg. 1] "Reporter Smokes Five marijuanas to Note Effects"
[e Jan. 21, 1935] "Large Quantity of Poisonous Weed Which Yields Deadly Marijuana Cultivated in and Near St. Louis".
[e Jan. 22, 1935] "33 States have laws prohibiting Marijuana Weed" By Julius Klein.
[e Jan. 24, 1935] "Military Order Bans Marijuana in Canal Zone" - -a smoking gun of lies.
[e Jan 24, 1935] "Dr. Gerling Urges Marijuana Ban to Protect Youths "
[e Jan. 25, 1935] "Only One Peddler of Marijuana Convicted"
[e Jan. 28, 1935] "Louisiana Banned Marijuana After Double Murder"
[e Jan 28 or 29, 1935] "U.S. Asks States For Laws to Ban Use of Marijuana"
[e Jan 31, 1935 (date may be off)] "Anti-Marijuana bill approved by house group"
[e Feb 1935 (may be Feb, 1 or 2)] "Unanimous House Vote Favors Marijuana Ban"
[e Feb. 4,1935] "Louisville Paper Finds Marijuana a Menace There"


THE CORN FIELD AFFAIR
Date: Oct 1936   Location: Baltimore

What the Narc's were claiming
Baltimore.-On October 2, 1936, Baltimore City police raided two locations at which several hundred pounds of green and dried marihuana were stored and arrested Joseph Martinez and Ruben Sanchez. Further investigation by local and Federal officers led to discovery of a farm located near the city where large quantities, of growing plants were found to have been cultivated between rows, of corn, under circumstances leading to a belief that a carefully planned cultivation of the weed had been carried on for 2 or 3 years previous. The harvesting of the crop had been proceeding for several days prior to discovery, trucks carting the leaves -and tops into Baltimore, where the drying, grinding, and packaging processes were carried out. The defendants were convicted and sentenced to jail terms and large quantities of the growing plants and dried bulk marihuana were confiscated and destroyed. - AKA the Corn Field affair

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
INSIDE DETECTIVE MAGAZINE

[**]- Nov. 1937 - pg. 16 "Thrill-Mad Youth is faced with a sinister menace in MARIHUANA DEVIL'S DRUG! - best description ever.


CHILD MOLESTER
Name: Oscar Ralph Ashworth   Date: Sept. 1938   Location: St. Joseph Missouri

What the Narc's were claiming
1938 St. Joseph, Missouri - M 37 Smoked 2 marihuana cigarettes, then raped his 7-year old daughter. Death in Gas -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2

1938 - 0. Ashworth, - St.Joseph, Missouri. - 37 - Smoked 2 marihuana cigarettes, then raped his 7-yr. daughter. Trial: Guilty. - Death, gas chamber -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
THE MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM

[Nov. 20, 1940 pp1] "Stark commutes Ashworth's Death Sentence to Life"
The Oshkosh Northwestern
[Sept. 2, 1938 pp7] "Ashworth is Sentenced to Die in Gas Chamber"
[Nov 4, 1938 pp5] "Life of Ashworth Prolonged for at Least Ten Months"
LINCOLN STATE JOURNAL
[Nov 6m 1938 pp12] "Longer life for Ashworth"
SHEBOYGAN PRESS
[Oct 25, 1940 pp 3] "Ashworth Granted Stay of Execution:
Stevens Point Daily Journal
[Aug 30, 1938 pp1] "Man Held at Bay Wanted for Assault"
[Nov 5, 1938 pp 10] "Declare Condemned Convict Charged With Wrong Crime"


BANK ROBBERY
Name: Marvin Pratt   Date: June 20, 1952   Location: Tustin Ca.

Only picture we have been able to locate:

NAME MARVIN ROY PRATT
Birth Date 05/30/1921
Mother Maiden LOPEZ
Father Last PRATT
Sex Male
Birth Place NEW MEXICO
Death Place ORANGE
Residence ?
Death Date 06/20/1952
SSN ?
Age 31
California Death Records
http://vitals.rootsweb.com/
ca/death/search.cgi

What the Narc's were claiming
On Feb. 14, 1952, Marvin Roy Pratt was arrested by Denver police after having committed an armed robbery. Pratt had been under investigation by narcotic agents for dealing in and smoking marihuana. Quantities of marihuana were found by narcotic agents police in Pratt's automobile and his clothing. His automobile confiscated. Pratt was committed to the Denver County Jail and while being held there, he escaped. On or about December 15, 1952, Pratt robbed a bank in Tustin, Calif., and while running from the bank with his loot, he was shot and killed by the bank teller, the teller using a high-powered game rifle. After first being arrested in Denver Pratt had admitted to narcotic officers to being a longtime marihuana smoker and having committed crimes while under the influence of marihuana. -- The Traffic in Opium and Other Dangers Drugs (1952)

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS: LA TIMES
[Feb 17, 1952 pp28] "Denver Suspect Tells of Robbery in Beverly Hills"
[June 22, 1952 pp2] "Bandit Slaying Cleans Robbery"
[July 27, 1952 pp ] "Man and Wife Arrested in bank robbery Case"


ROBBERY
Name: Frank Schoengarth   Date: Feb. 1953   Location: Los Angeles

What the Narc's were claiming
1953 Los Angeles, California - Male 18 Armed robbery M. Friedman, gun not loaded as afraid might hurt somebody; previous record stole money to buy heroin; had started smoking marihuana in Hollywood high school; 3 years reformatory; got worse. -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2

1953 - B. Garth, - 18 - Los Angeles - M - Armed robbery M. Friedman, gun not loaded as afraid might hurt somebody; previous record stole money to buy heroin; had started smoking marihuana in Hollywood High School; 3 years reformatory; got worse. - Arrested -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965

NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
Los Angeles Times

[Feb 27, 1953 pp 17] "Father Asks Roll to Help Youth in dope's toils"
[Jan 16, 1953 pp1] "Father Turns in son, 18, as Bandit"
[Jan 17, 1953 pp A6] "Hearing Set for boy Turned Over to Police"





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