MRS KNAPP FOUND GUILTY OF LARCENY
former secretary of state CONVICTED IN NE W YORK. ALBANY, N. Y. Mrs Florence E. S, Knapp, formerly Secretary of State, has just- been convicted of grand larceny in the first degree after the jury had considered the case for 4J hours The - verdict closes Mrs Knapp’s second trial on the charge of misappropriation of State census funds, the jury at the first trial having disagreed. " ' \ Justice Callaghan announced . that, owing to Mrs Knapp's indisposition, spntenco would not bo pronounced until September 4. Meanwhile Mrs Knapp will bo released on bail . « The indictment on; which Mrs Knapp was convicted charged her with larceny of 2875.0(5 dollars' of the State census funds which, it .was. alleged, she had appropriated by issuing a cheek for that amount to .her stepdaughter, Miss Clara B. Knapp,.. Miss Knapp testified that she had done no work on the census and that she-know nothing about the issuing of the check. It was' authoritatively said- that Mrs Knapp's;lawyers will, not let her go to prjson until every : legal resource. has been exhausted. NA appeal can be bad until sentence ' is pronounced. . If, an aPP 0:l l fails. a formal application will be made to-Governor Smith for a. pardon. ; , : •
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 8
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