# Galatas v. United States, 80 F.2d 15 (8th Cir. 1935)

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The Eighth Circuit's affirmance of the conspiracy convictions of Richard Tallman Galatas, Herbert Farmer, Louis Stacci and Frank B. Mulloy, arising from the plan to free Frank Nash. It sets out Nash's escape, his capture at Hot Springs, and the walk through Union Station.

The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit decided four consolidated appeals on November 18, 1935. The indictment, as the court recites it, charged that Frank Nash had been sentenced to twenty-five years for assaulting a United States mail custodian, was committed to Leavenworth on March 3, 1924, and "on October 19, 1930, he escaped from the penitentiary and remained at large, a fugitive from justice, until June 16, 1933." The court states that "on June 16, 1933, Nash was captured at the White Front pool hall or cigar store in Hot Springs, Ark.," and was taken by train toward Kansas City.

The opinion describes the arrival on the morning of June 17, 1933: the officers and Nash walked from the train through the waiting room of the Union Station and crossed to the cars. The appellants were convicted of conspiring to free Nash from the custody of the Attorney General. "The judgments and sentences appealed from are therefore affirmed."

The court's statement of facts comes from the trial record. The FBI's history page gives its own account of the same events.

## Sources

- CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1503173/galatas-v-united-states/