Word: tailorman
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...days before the Hoover arrival in Miami, police went to the Coral Gables Kennel Club and arrested Restaurant Cashier Willis Callahan, Dancing Teacher Thomas Mulligan, Tailorman Jacob B. Sommers. They were charged with "conspiring to do bodily injury to the person of Herbert Hoover and by threats and intimidation to prevent him from taking office as President of the U. S." Three days later they were arraigned, placed under $10,000 bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained...
...until two days after the Hoover arrival that the hearing was held. Prosecutor Joel could not produce the witnesses he desired. Those witnesses who were present gave feeble testimony. Long before the Hoover arrival Tailorman Sommers had called Mr. Hoover a "nigger- lover," adding that he "ought to be killed," that "if he comes to Miami he will be killed." Cashier Callahan had boasted: "Someone should bump him off. . . . I wouldn't be afraid to do it myself if he came to Miami...
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