State v. Carey

The appellant, Edward St. John Condon, is an attorney. He was employed as such by Willis E. Landis, who on November 4, .1919, had been indicted for crime in Hennepin county and whose bail had been fixed at $2,000. His mother, Mary C. Landis, and sister, Clara M. John, interested themselves in securing his release. With the assistance of a personal friend, Lafayette M. Reid, and a loan from the bank made to Mary C. Landis, $1,000 in cash and $1,000 in liberty bonds were turned over by them to Condon, as attorney for Willis, to be deposited with the clerk of the district court of Henne-pin…