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...name "Boettcher" at ten pedestrians and nine are likely to answer "kidnapping." Snatched one night in February 1933 while he and his wife were putting their car away, Charles Boettcher 2nd of Denver was kept prisoner 17 days on a South Dakota ranch, released just before $60,000 ransom was paid. In a Sioux Falls penitentiary one year later, Verne Sankey, 'legger, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself just before he was to plead guilty to the Boettcher kidnapping (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow...
Sugar men have long known that Claude K. Boettcher has been acquiring stock in Great Western's most important rival, American Beet Sugar Co., second biggest unit in the industry. In 1929 American Beet had acquired control of Mormon-managed Amalgamated Sugar Co. Last week American announced that Claude K. Boettcher had been made board chairman of Amalgamated Sugar. Financial writers immediately guessed that Great Western was reaching out for control of American Beet, whose stock capitalization is only 406,000 shares. This Claude Boettcher denied, claiming that his holdings in American Beet were purely on his personal account...
Before leaving for Manhattan last week Claude Boettcher told a newshawk that he expected to be elected chairman of American Beet this week. Outstanding among Denver's first financial families, the Boettchers are reported to be one of the three biggest owners of Great Western stock. Last week Denver brokers were predicting that the Boettcher clan would like nothing better than to merge all Midwest sugar companies under their control...
...before in a Chicago barber's chair, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself to an iron cross beam. Next day he was to have pleaded guilty to the kidnapping in 1932 of Haskell Bohn of St. Paul (ransom: $12,000) and in 1933 of Charles Boettcher II of Denver (ransom: $60,000), whom he hid on his Dakota turkey ranch. Next day Sankey's accomplice, Gordon Alcorn, was sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life in Leavenworth for his part in the snatchings...
...helpless in the face of thugdom, the Associated Press called to mind that in 18 notorious kidnapping cases in the past three years, 43 criminals have been jailed, three are dead, ten await trial. Prior to last week, the four most important kidnappees of the year were Broker Charles Boettcher II of Denver, little Peggy McMath of Cape Cod. Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's city manager, and Brewer William Hamm of St. Paul. The abductors of all save Hamm are either doing time or awaiting trial. On the basis of that record the average kidnap victim...