Sheriff W. B. Cahoon of Jacksonville last week arrested Fred O. Eberhardt, publisher of the Tallahassee Florida State News, longtime Carlton critic, Henry Halseman, professional bondsman and Frank Rawls, onetime convict. The charge: conspiracy to kill Florida's Governor Doyle E. Carlton.
Sheriff Cahoon, mysterious, refused to divulge his evidence, hinted at a plot "to get control of gambling and booze on the east coast." Publisher Eberhardt complained he had been harassed for a year, charged his arrest was a "political plot." Governor Carlton was "not surprised" to hear of the alleged conspiracy...
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