ATTEMPTED EXTORTION
ECHO OF EARHART TRAGEDY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, October 14. „ (Recevied October 15, at 8 a.m.) Accepting the recommendation in the Lunacy Commission’s report, tho court committed Rothar to the Hospital for the Criminal Insane. [On August 5, Wilbur Rothar, a janitor, with his wife and eight children, was arrested on a charge of attempted extortion from Mr Putnam. Rothar, while viewing Miss Earhart land in the local air field, picked up the aviatrix’s scarf, which was blown off by the wind. Rothar used the scarf in an effort to convince Mr Putnam that his wife was still alive, having been rescued by an arms-running ship' from an island near New Guinea, and demanded 2,000d0l for her safe return.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22780, 15 October 1937, Page 9
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123ATTEMPTED EXTORTION Evening Star, Issue 22780, 15 October 1937, Page 9
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