Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Motorman Chrysler & superintendent were summoned to appear in Baltimore's Federal District Court to answer three charges: 1) failure to plug their repeating shotguns to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have Federal duck stamps on their hunting licenses; 3) shooting over a baited area (TIME, Oct. 26). Each offense was punishable by $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...
Last week the day came for Mr. Chrysler's hearing and Mr. Chrysler was in Detroit. Anxiously his attorney informed the court that Mr. Chrysler had wired his willingness to appear in person next day if necessary. Angrily Judge W. Calvin Chesnut snapped that Mr. Chrysler had best consider that it was necessary. Chief Gabrielson: "All citizens are equal under the Law." Next day a nervous Mr. Chrysler faced a scowling judge and in barely audible tones confessed to the unplugged gun charge. "Of course I should have known," said he, "but Pritchett is supposed to look...
...ordered plugs but they had not arrived. As for the stamps, it was conceded that both men possessed them, had simply failed to paste them on their licenses. Of the most serious charge, baiting, the prosecuting attorney proclaimed "a shocking disregard for the law," demanded a conviction. Mr. Chrysler explained that he regularly scattered grain over his marshes except during hunting season, said 500 canvasbacks had boarded there last winter...
Sharply warning Mr. Chrysler to make his employes "keep within the law," Judge Chesnut dismissed the baiting charge, fined motorman & employe $10 each for not plugging their guns, $1 each for not pasting on their stamps...
...Motorman Chrysler was not the only distinguished defendant arraigned before Judge Chesnut last week. Among others, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the U. S. Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, was fined $5 for unplugged gun, $1 for unpasted stamp. Enroute from Texas, Albanus Phillips, big, bluff Cambridge Md. soupmaker whose 6,700-acre estate adjoins his good friend Mr. Chrysler's, was expected in court this week to answer a charge of baited shooting...