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NEWSPAPER UNKNOWN, March 1941 |
Release from Jail - ERIC BLOMBERG |
BLOMBERG (this is badly ripped in parts) Washington stepped into the limelight of the midwest and almost the whole nation Monday and Tuesday of this week when the Associated Press, United Press, and other news gathering agencies took an unusually great interest in the Eric BLOMBERG "retiring from jail" story. Countless phone calls and telegrams from Topeka and Kansas City requesting facts, details, pictures etc. from the Register office, Clerk of the Court, the District Judge, County Sheriff and others kept the wires hot Monday and Tuesday. Besides the unusual interest appearing in most daily papers in the midwest, newscasts carried the "yarn" as editors call such a story, Washington people heard the happening broadcast from a Cincinnati radio station. It seems to be the opinion of many that the story commanded more far reaching attention over the country than the tornado of July 4, 1932. Headlines used by several papers included "14 years in Jail for Prisoner who owed $63.35", and "Jail Is Home Sweet Home". Here's what started it all ---- After spending 14 years in the county
jail for non-payment of costs amounting to $63.35 Eric BLOMBERG, 87, was
freed Monday on a ruling by Charles A. WALSH, district judge, Received Sentence in 1926 - Although records show On Monday, however, BLOMBERG filed a written statement asking the court
to reform the record, which was denied by the district judge. A.C.
BOKELMAN was appointed by the judge to represent the defendant, then moved
to that order to commit BLOMBERG With the motion sustained, BLOMBERG was discharged. Judge WALSH's
decision to free |
Transcribed and Contributed by Delores Raines |
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