WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1956

Wednesday, January 18, 1956

HEADLINE: TAYLOR LAWYER CONFERS WITH LOCAL PEOPLE

Irving Nemerov Named by Court to Defend Lindbergh Case Suspect


Irving Nemerov, court appointed consul for James P. Taylor who is being held in connection with a Lindbergh case, was in Thief River Falls last week interviewing witnesses.


Nemerov contacted most of the people who had seen the
stranger who arrived here by plane Saturday, November 12 and met Lindberg at the Northern State Bank.


He also planned to talk with those who say they saw Lindbergh at Detroit Lakes from where the later had called his wife at 11:30 p.m. that fateful Saturday night.


That was the last anyone is known to have seen Lindbergh until his body was found on an isolated brushy slope about 2 miles south of the village of Clear Lake. His murderer had killed him with repeated blows on the back of his head with a bladed instrument.


Taylor is being held for federal grand jury action on a charge of transporting stolen traveler’s checks, part of a $15,700 loot taken from the bank across the state lines.
A total of $1750 and silver coin and $14,000 negotiable travelers checks were taken, which have more than $9,500 has subsequently recovered.


The American Express Co. ….. a part of the stolen traveler’s checks, filed suit against Taylor two weeks ago seeking to recover on checks Taylor converted to his own use under various aliases.


In addition to Herbert F. Johnson, J. B. O’Malley, and Charles D. Kenwell, names which have figured prominently in the case heretofore, the complaint lists alias’ of Henry F. Dooley, Harry G. Farnsworth, Howard F. Bradley, and R. B. Brubaker as having been used to cash the checks.


Denominations listed were listed as: 99 -- $10, 71 -- $20, 14 -- $50, and 20 -- $100, a total of $5,110. The complaint of averred that all but one of the $20 and four of the $10 checks had been cashed.


Nemerov stated that he had until January 22 to file an answer to the suit.


Declining comment on Taylor’s status in the forthcoming grand jury hearing, which is scheduled for January 20, Nemerov said we’ll just have to wait to see what develops, meanwhile I am obligated to do everything just and fair which is in the interest of my client.


Because he was appointed by a federal court to defend Taylor, Nemerov said he will get no fee for his services. About $800 which Taylor had on his person when arrested at Joplin, Missouri on December 8, was impounded by federal authorities.


Taylor is being held in the Hennepin County jail. No one but his counsel, federal investigators, and the U. S. District Attorney and the jailers are allowed to see him there.