Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-09 | Page 33 | Wire Griffis Best of Luck

WiRE GRifFIS BEST Of lUCK Friends Honor Man That Tried to Kidnap Bergdoll MOSBACH Baden Dec S-lP S 8 A Conies Corliss Hooven Griffis of Hamil Hamp- Hamilton Hampton Hamilton ton Ohio who esterday yesterday 1 was yesterday esterday found guilty of oC con con- conI conspiring conspiring con conspiring to kidnap Grover Cleveland I Bergdoll has rec ed te telegrams from Hamilton Phila Phila- Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia and other American cities congratulating him upon his pa- pa patriotic pa patriotic stand and wishing him the best of oC luck 1 I Griffis faces eighteen months Imprisonment without any outside privileges privilege unless his friend e are aro ablo rillo to Induce the tho German officials to grant him a 1 parole otter after a tow few weel weeks ILl The court yesterday esterday sentenced Griffis to a a year and nine nino months but three months time was as s liter lter deducted In stew lew o 0 fact tact that 1 he had been In Jail since the first i of August Dugene Eugene August Victor Nelson of Chica Chica- Chicago Chicago Chicago I go another defendant In the kid kidnapping kid kid- kidnapping 1 napping case CalO received a three months sentence but the tho court took toole I Into consideration the tho fact tact that ho he also had hod been In jail lall sin since co August and because of oC this he was waa Im- Im Immediately Im Immediately mediately s not net t fre free FUNDS rUNDS FOR Fort GIRL CHIt and Nelson were each sentenced to pay pal II a n fine tine of two trillion paper marks for tor having I hI ought an automobile Into Ger Ger- GerI Ger- Ger Germany Germany I many mony unlawfully tully According to the German officials It if the court I had hod delayed until today the sen sentencing of oC the tho defendants the tho fine Would ho hoe hate ha e been ten thousand gold marks markt each under new regula regulo regulations effective this morning Maxwell Max en K Moorhead American consul at Stuttgart announced that he had recoiled ed several everi l an- an anonymous an anonymous contributions of money monc In th the last few fe d 2 00 of ot which had been given to Lena Lens Rupp the Inthe girl who was shot In the hand In 1920 In the course of ol the tho attempt of oC American army armi arm Badeni men to arrest Bergdoll In III Daden Baden Rupp ho had 1 been promised prom lIed reimbursement for or lier ter her doctor bill by the tho army of occupation auth- auth authorities At pt COblenz Coblens but nothing was ever paid WILL ILL L CA CASE C Herr counsel tor for Griffis today announced ed that he ho was mak- mak makIng Ing arrangements to appeal Grit Grit- fit sentence to the Baden Daden supreme court and that until this was a as act act- acted Pd upon his client in inthe would In the district jail jolI her hereld here He Ho cc that th t this thia tl ls step was ns decided upon to prevent Griffis being taker taken to the penitentiary ean 1 Meanwhile A American n rl ean Consul Moorehead null Ill ask aik Amna adol Houghton In Berlin to prevail up- up upon on the Washington government to take some come action which counsel will bring about a formal request from the proper prope aaion German authorities for tor hl hI release rel on probation