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...often abused agents of the FBI and the New York City police were basking last week in the spotlight of praise for their rescue of kidnaped Seagram Heir Samuel Bronfman II, the recovery of the record ransom of $2.3 million and the arrest of two confessed kidnapers. But TIME has learned that the investigation is still far from complete. There remains a possibility that a third accomplice, a woman, may have been involved. Investigators are also actively pursuing the theory that the amateurish conspirators may have intended to use the ransom to help finance activities of the Irish Republican Army...
...arrested men, Mel Patrick Lynch, 37, a New York City fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 53, a Brooklyn limousine operator, have signed statements admitting their roles in the eight-day abduction of the 21-year-old Bronfman. Lynch's attorney has asked that his client undergo psychiatric tests, apparently to build a defense of mental incompetence at the time of the kidnaping. Byrne's attorney insists that his client acted out of fear-presumably of Lynch -for his safety, and actually helped Bronfman during his confinement. Although the two suspects have been friends for about ten years, their defense...
...young Bronfman has told investigators he is "sure" that one of his abductors was a woman. He recalls being pushed into the back seat of a car when the kidnapers seized him outside the unoccupied home of his mother, Ann Loeb Bronfman, in suburban Purchase, N.Y., in the early morning hours of Aug. 9. He is certain that Lynch sat beside him on the seat, and he believes a third person was seated next to Lynch. Bronfman thinks that it was a woman because at one point, the car stopped, someone got out, and he heard the rap of high...
...hotel of his own, but the coming of Prohibition in Canada in 1916 forced him to close the bar. He also saw that the law permitted alcohol sales across provincial borders. So, although it is just a coincidence that bronfen is the Yiddish word for whisky, the young Bronfman brothers started a wholesale mail-order liquor business. For a time it flourished, but as the Canadian authorities gradually took over all retail liquor sales, the Bronfmans began looking south...
When Prohibition hit the U.S. in 1919, it looked as if the brothers Bronfman had no place left to turn and were out of business. Not for long. They quickly developed a brisk trade with U.S. bootleggers, and Sam snapped up a foundering Canadian competitor called Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Seagram's represented quality, and even in the days of bathtub gin, Sam always approved of quality. By the end of the '20s, more than 1 million gallons a year of Canadian whisky came illicitly into the U.S., and a sizable proportion of it came from Seagram...