People v. Welke

In the spring of 1951 a jury in the recorder’s court for the city of Detroit found defendant William F. Welke guilty of extortion. He was sentenced to not less than 5 nor more than 20 years in the State prison of southern Michigan.

■ The • complaining witness, Mrs. Katherine Vasu, testified-that'the following events occurred in the city of Detroit on May 31, 1949:

That on that day she received a telephone cal! at approximately 9 :l5 at m. The call allegedly came from a Mr. Weber from the University of Michigan, inquiring as to the whereabouts of her son Corclell Vasu and stating "that he had…