FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): New York, Aug. 4 – Edwin P. Banta, 75, was held in $1,900 bail for trial on Sept. 11 today on a charge of conspiring to have a false charge of attempted rape brought against Arthur Derounian, on the theory it would "blow that sedition trial in Washington sky-high."
According to District Attorney Frank S. Hogan Banta was a
friend of George Sylvester Viereck, one of the defendants in the sedition case.
Derounian, who under the pen-name of John Roy Carlson, wrote
the best-selling “Under Cover” has been a key witness for the prosecution.
Hogan charged that Banta, an orator for the German American
Bund [U. S. organization formed by the German National Socialist Party, commonly known as the Nazis] when that organization was flourishing, posed as a violent anti-Nazi and
recently succeeded in obtaining a job as investigator for the anti-Nazi league.
Banta's motive in taking that position, Hogan declared, was
in the hope of aiding Viereck and other defendants in Washington. Banta
enlisted June Kelly, 21, according to the district attorney, who said she was
induced to bring a charge of attempted rape against Derounian.
When questioned, she admitted the charge was false. She was
named as co-conspirator in the information on which Banta was arraigned
yesterday but was not a defendant.
Banta denied the charge contending he was the victim of
the Anti-Nazi league.
[“Hold Banta On False Charge Conspiracy,” Dunkirk Evening
Observer (N.Y.), Aug. 4, 1944, p. 3]
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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 3): New York, Oct. 18 – Special
sessions court seeks today to learn the source of $1,000 which was promised
red-haired June Kelly, 21, if she would accuse John Roy Carson [pseudonym of
Arthur Derounian], author of “Under Cover,” of rape in an alleged conspiracy to
“blow the Washington sedition trial to hell.”
Miss Kelly testified yesterday that Edwin P. Banta, 73,
alleged master mind of the plot, told her he would “write to Rep. Fish
(Hamilton Fish, R., N. Y.), Mr. Deatherage (George E. Deatherage, organizer of
the Knights of the White Camelia) and a Mr. Robinett (of Chicago) about raising
money.”
Carlson is to be a government witness in the trial of 29
alleged seditionists which has dragged for weeks in a federal court in
Washington.
Miss Kelly testified that she had been Banta’s secretary,
and that he visited her room the night of June 19. “I told him Carlson had been
to see me and he got very excited. He said ‘I have a great idea. You see he
raped you and we will blow the sedition trial at Washington all to hell.”
Banta told Miss Kelly he had informed New York’s police
commissioner Lewis J. Valentine of Carlson’s “attack” on her, she said, and a
deputy chief inspector called to hear her story, which she told while Banta sat
in the bathroom of her apartment within earshot.
“Banta told me to tear my dress, scratch my arms and shed
tears when I told my story to the inspector,” Miss Kelly testified. She said
she refused tear her dress because it was new, but she did accuse Carlson, and
later telephoned police to say the story was “a frameup instigated by Banta.”
[“Probe Plot To Disrupt Trial of 29,” syndicated (UP), The
Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, In.), Oct. 18, 1944, p. 3]
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FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 3): New York, Oct. 23 – Edwin P.
Banta, 73, was found guilty on a charge of conspiracy in an attempt to
discredit Arthur Derounian, author of “Under Cover,” by asking a girl to
falsely accuse the writer of raping her.
Presiding justice Irving Ben Cooper of Special Sessions
announced sentence would be imposed Nov. 9 after “a full investigation of this
defendant.”
Banta, faced with a maximum sentence of three years
imprisonment, was accused of asking June Kelly, a pretty red-haired girl, to
make the false accusation against Derounian, who wrote under the name John Roy
Carlson, in order to “blow the seditionist trial in Washington all to hell.”
[“Found Guilty Of Attempt To Smear Carson,” The Gazette and
Daily (York, Pa.), Oct. 24, 1944, p. 6]
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More historical cases of False Rape Accusations
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I believe that when American law enforcement started accepting federal pork bloating dollars in return for manufacturing false rape statistics...they not only crossed some moral boundaries...they became enemies of a free American people.
ReplyDeletethe FBI recently admitted that they are still holding back some evidence that would harm their cases and falsifying other evidence that helps their cases...just as with prosecutors our FBI isn't interested in justice only winning the case quickly
ReplyDeleteWhat has this case to do with misandry? It was politically motivated, the instigator was a man, and the woman backed out of it.
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