Stolen from the Garden by William Swanson

Author:William Swanson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-87351-948-9
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2014-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

1 There was some debate as to whom the recovered money belonged. Several of the banks where the twenties were exchanged believed the cash should be returned to them. The US Attorney’s office in Minneapolis argued, however, that “the FBI considers the money to be [its] property” while investigating the case and will return it to “the original source once [the] matter has been resolved.”

2 The Minneapolis office also had jurisdiction over the explosive American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in the late winter and spring of 1973.

3 The FBI attributed much of the reporter’s “news” to an unnamed informant in Twin Cities law enforcement. According to an internal memo, Gibson got some things right, including the cost of the Bureau’s investigation, which is “now ten million dollars.” The memo also confirmed Gibson’s assertion—broached during the reporter’s visit to the local office the previous day but not included in his story—that one of the Piper, Jaffray employees Bobby mentioned to the FBI immediately following the kidnapping was still, a year later, a suspect, though, according to the memo, not “as a doer,” but as a possible “planner.” The man had agreed, the memo said, to take a polygraph exam and was subsequently eliminated as a suspect.

4 Two months after her abduction, Patty Hearst declared herself a member of the SLA and, brandishing an assault rifle and the nom de guerre “Tania,” took part in several violent robberies in California. Then she and a handful of her captors/cohorts disappeared and became the objects of a nationwide search that concluded with their capture by the FBI the following year.

5 Larson told the FBI that they were guests of Arthur Stillman, a well-known Minneapolis businessman who owned a group of Flower City flower shops around the country. Larson said Stillman employed him as a truck driver and occasionally lent him money, including the $16,000 with which he purchased the Willow River farm. Stillman, who once served on the three-person Minnesota Parole Board, was known for finding jobs and otherwise helping ex-convicts.

6 Fleitman owned Occie’s Bar near Lyndale and Lake in Minneapolis. Though neither Callahan nor Larson was a serious drinker, both men often spent evenings at Occie’s and considered Fleitman a friend. Callahan, in fact, said Fleitman was one of his three fishing partners the afternoon of the kidnapping.

7 Stratton noted that one of Ginny’s kidnappers, while at the house, pocketed the six dollars he found in her purse, which suggested to the agent that even a kidnapper demanding a million-dollar ransom, if he’s a thief by trade, will rifle his victim’s billfold as a matter of habit. By peculiar coincidence, one of Eunice Kronholm’s kidnappers reportedly pilfered six dollars from her purse during her abduction a year and a half later.

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