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Taylor Caldwell — Part 11
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REBACK AND REBACK.
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BUFFALO 26,N.¥.
TAYLOR -CALOWELL
MARCUS REBACK
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Jelnstdn of Buffalo, to demand $10, 000 frém us “in small bills," to: ‘pay ay off the 1
boys" so they will stop "the frame-up against you" from Washington. He complained “the
“the “gov'mint" was deadly annoyed by my antiCommunist books, articles and speeches.
know that for myself, for David Niles had shook his fist in my face, before witnesses, a
oS had shouted, "We have tex-ways of stopping people like you!" I received a similar thre
2 from a large newspaper publisher in Palm Beach, one David Stern, who told me "the tax
boys will fix you.” This was before the trouble started. faye
Incidentally, I took the numbers of the $10,000 in bills and they were all trace
to McGowan, Bickford and Weinstein, McGowan got $5,000 of it. We had paid the mon
and taken the numbers, because we were terrorized. Our young daughter, Judy »twas stu:
a ‘music in the summer of 1953 in Chautauqua, and one IRS agent, Bickford, celled me at 2
: arid said “we know where your kid-is and We'll kill her, and your husband, too, if you té
these tape recordings into court.” I immediately called the FBI, and the agent who answ
a Mr. McMann, said Se would notify the State Troopers immediately, Now, no word of c
trouble had as yet hit the newspapers, so the caller could only have been Bickford, and}
did recognize his voice. I suggdsted to Mr. McMann that he was only trying to frighten
me, but Mr. McMann said, very seriously, "No. You can't put anything past those peor
Amen, again, - I have the full transcripts of all the recordings taken in our house, a full
- 48 pages, which may Interest you to read, though I recall thtat TI did tell you the whole -
stcry when we met in your office, and when you urged me to institute legal proceedings
against the criminals. Again, T wish to God I had done .So. _
In 1954 I met a Judge Chillingsworth in Palm Beach, Florida. (He lived in
West Palm Beach.) I told him our story , and waited for him to be incredulous, but he sa.
“My dear girl, that {s a very old gtory about the IRS. I have files in my house of hundre,
of cases similar #9 yours, in Florida alone, and soon I am going to take action ‘against’ tt
government and é¥cuse the IRS nationally for what it is: Our Soviet Secret Police, which
is attempting to destroy every patriotic citizen who loves his country. The man you men
from Buifalo's office, Robert Bickford, lives in West Palm Beach now, and he is the bag-
for the IRS throughout the state of Florida. We'll get them yet, my dear, we'il get them
yet! I will write you very soon and ask you to come down to Florida in my courtroom anc
testify, and bring your recordings, Will you do that?" I heartily promised.
That was in early April. I never heard from Judge Chillingsworth., Butin |
November I read in NEWSWEEK, "The murderers. of Judge Chillingsworth and his wife nav
never been found." Nor were his files against the IRS ever found. They had been destrc
- Later, a few years later, two men were arrested and convicted of his murder, but strange
to say their background and their occupation were never revealed. I tried to get the. inio
ation from the Florida newspapers but they never answered. 2 00s
A pretty coincidence, isn't it?
The reason I am writing this ls because ‘of other “coincidences” which have
‘come up lately. ne ot
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