Show LIGGETT WIDOW 0 PLANS FLIGHT MINNEAPOLIS MINNEAPOLIS' Feb 19 UP UP- UP Mrs Edith Liggett widow of the assassinated muckraking editor Walter Liggett made mado pl plans n to flee Minneapolis and go into hiding against gangland vengeance today after after- acquittal of th the former lormer boot boot- legger logger ch rg d' d wl h It r. r husbands husband's murder Kid McCann C nn Blumenfeld Blumenfeld Blu Blu- celebrated Jils liis acquittal ala at al ata a hilarious party Jr Liggett prepared prepared pre pre- pared to fJ flee c with willi h r dren My life Is In constant d danger nger the frail fraU eyed dark widow told th the United Press of or and eight men returned a not guilty verdict after deliberating two anc and ando o one half halt Iho rs Only one ballot was was wag taken Whooping Pasty Party Spectators Spectators' mostly friends of B Blumenfeld Blu- Blu u- u cheered wIldly when Judge dge Arthur Arthur- ArthurS S Selover l. l lver ver read the tho finding Blumenfeld embraced his pretty wife wiped tears from his eyes hugged the women J jurors shook hands with the men men I and land thanked Judge Selover for a fla ajust just and andl fair trial Later rids toa whooping celebration par party y Governor Floyd Olson accused by Mrs Liggett of complicity in the murder announced the search for forthe tho the slayer would continue unabated Mrs Liggett tt said she would sell sel Imm Immediately the n weekly newspaper in which h S sl J continued attacks on on the under unde world and high state officials Js after death CI r C c. c I I would prefer to stay hero arid fight It out t to harry carry arr on the principles pies ples which ples-which which cost my husband his lis life even if it meant my death she said But I I- have two children n to think of ot For their sake I I must flee I may go to New York to live with my parents bUt I do not wish to disclose now just where I will go Fears Gang Action The Tho Liggett children Marda 10 who saw her father drop with five machine gun slugs in his back and Wallace 12 have bave b been en living or on a farm in Wisconsin I would be hounded and hounded by the gang J if I remained in Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis Minne Minne- apolis Mrs Liggett said Every move I make Is watched now After identifying Blumenfeld as the man with the leering grinning face who killed her husband Mrs Liggett testified tho the slaying either was vas ordered or permitted by Governor Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Olson I Mrs Liggett revealed her husband husband husband hus hus- band had consented to leave leav MInneapolis Minneapolis MInne- MInne apolis after the close o of of the nex next campaign Liggett was shot as ho he stepped his car in the alley at the r rear ar i io o of his apartment i |