(Research):«b»From Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, 22 Jan 1948, p. 12, c. 3:«/b»
«b»Beloit Man Denies
Federal Fraud Charge
«/b»Madison -«i»- «/i»Linford Marshall,
35, of Beloit, denied yesterday
at his federal court trial for fraud
and posing as an FBI agent that
he intended to cheat a Beloit woman
and her daughter.
Mrs. Theresa Handt of Beloit
testified she loaned Marshall $2,325
through her daughter, Charolott,
and that she had mortgaged her
home to secure the money. She said
Marshall claimed he -was an FBI
agent and that Miss Handt contacted
the Rockford office and learned
he was not.
"Miss Handt gave me the money
to buy farm equipment," Marshall
testified. "I didn't borrow it."
«b»«i��From The LaCrosse Tribune, 21 Jan 1948
p. 4, 5«/b»
Hear Cases in
District Court
«/i»MADISON, Wis. -- Mrs.
Theresa Handt, Bcloit, testified in
U. S. district court today that she
mortgaged her home and borrowed
money from savings of her
children \\to loan $2,525 to Linford
Marshall, 35, Beloit, on trial, on
charges of fraud and impersonating
an FBI agent.
Mrs. Handt, called as a government
witness, said she had known
Marshall by the name of Marshall
Fry and that he came lo her home
with her daughter in 1940.
She said Marshall claimed he
was a "personal friend" of J.
Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, and
asked for loans on two occasions.
He told her, Mrs. Handt testified
that he needed the mony as tuition
to enter an FBI school and
pay a fine which the FBI had assessed
against him for getting into
a "scrape" in Russia. Mrs. Handt
said she raised some of the money
by mortgaging her home.
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