KIDNAPPING
McCALL found guilty.
(United Press Association-By Electric Telegraph -—Copyright-). MIAMI (Florida). June Id Franklin Pierce McCall, aged 21. of Princeton, pleaded guilty to a charge of kidnapping Jimmy Cash..n tiye-vear-old boy, hut not guilty to murdering him. Both charges carry the death penalty, Tim hoy was kidnapped from Ins home at Princeton oti May 31. and his body was discovered two days later in dense underbrush ball a mile from the town. ■ McCall was found guilty of the kidnapping. He will be sentenced tomorrow. sentenced to electric chair. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) ~,iAMI. June 16. Franklin Pierce McCall has been sentenced to the electric chair for the kidnappin,*' ol fivo-year-old Jimmy Cash. It is nineteen days after the kidnapping am] one of the quickest, applications of justice in history.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1938, Page 5
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