KIDNAPPER HANGED
NEW LAW’S FIRST FRUITS
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(Received June 20, Noon)
McAlester (Oklahoma). June 1!). Arthur Gooch, twenty-seven, who kidnapped two Texas public officers, and took them across the State line, although releasing them unharmed, was hanged to-day. He was the first to die for a violation of the so-called Federal Lindbergh kidnapping law. An effort to secure Presidential clemency failed, Mr Roosevelt issuing a. statement that it would be against public safety. The- kidnapping occurred in connection with an attempted prison escape by Gooch and a companion, who was killed at the time.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1936, Page 8
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