Fritz Kuhn, convicted by a jury last night on three grand larceny and two forgery charges, was held without bail in Tombs today pending sentencing next Tuesday by General Sessions Judge James G. Wallace. The maximum penalty would be 15 to 30 years’ imprisonment.
Judge Wallace, in charging the jury yesterday, warned the talesmen against allowing themselves to be influenced by Kuhn’s unpopularity as head of the German-American Bund. He limited the issue on the larceny counts to the point of whether the Bund’s “leadership principle” permitted Kuhn to make any use of Bund funds he wished. Judge Wallace had previously excluded five of the ten indictments. The “blue ribbon” jury, on which there were no Jews, returned the verdict after eight-and-a-half hours of deliberation.
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