savagely beat Liggett up a short time later. Liggett unsuccessfully attempted to press charges. Soon after, Liggett was arrested and prosecuted on kidnapping and sodomy charges, but was acquitted after evidence of perjury by the alleged victims came to light. Liggett escalated his attacks and began printing a list of reasons for Olson's impeachment on the front page of the Midwest-American. In response, Blumenfield associate Meyer Schuldberg telephoned Liggett and threatened him with a lawsuit for slander. Liggett responded, "Go ahead if you think I can't prove what I say!" Schuldberg allegedly responded that there were other ways to shut him up. Murder Soon after, at six p.m on the evening of December 9, 1935, Walter Liggett was slain in a drive by shooting with a Thompson submachine gun, as he stepped out of his car, groceries in his hand, in the lane behind their apartment in Minneapolis. His wife Edith and daughter Marda were in the car only a few feet away and witnessed his death. Weeping and saying that she would never forget his grinning face, Mrs. Liggett picked Blumenfeld out of a police lineup as her husband's killer. Three other witnesses also identified Blumenfeld as the shooter. Trial In a trial which made worldwide headlines, Mrs. Liggett and the three other witnesses testified that Blumenfeld was the shooter. The car from which the shots were fired was tracked down and found to be owned by Meyer Schuldberg. Despite this and considerable other evidence, Blumenfeld was acquitted. No one else was ever charged and Blumenfeld remained a major organized crime figure and was only successfully prosecuted during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations. He died of heart disease in 1981. Legacy Mrs. Liggett never believed that there was "a Chinaman's chance" of Blumenfeld's trial ending with a conviction. She believed that Blumenfeld had committed the murder at the behest of the "Syndicate", whose headquarters were in the top floor of a skyscraper in New York City. Both Governor Olson and political fixer Charles Ward were further believed by Mrs. Liggett to have been in the loop. At the trial of Kid Cann, Edith Liggett referred to the Blumenfeld brothers in court as "Olson's gang." In an April 1940 article, D. H. Dubrovsky, the former head of the Russian Red Cross, alleged that the murder of Walter Liggett had been committed by the Soviet secret police. While this remains unconfirmed,