Word: extortionately
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"I am firmly convinced," firmly declared Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, "that most actions for breach of promise and seduction have extortion as their chief motive. Surely a suit to recover money as damages for the broken romance cannot soothe a woman if...
Prosecution's witnesses will be many. First on the list is Col. Lindbergh. He will swear that he recognized the voice of Hauptmann as the one which called "Hey, doctor, over here, doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over...
Two cases in which the Department of Justice has as yet failed to score with the capture of the culprits: Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, snatched last January; June Robles, 6, stolen from her Tucson, Ariz, home last April. Last week Federal sleuths cleared up their 32nd and 33rd...
Murder- It would be a strange jury, thought Prosecutor Foley, which would not convict on these facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to...
"THINK WHAT A WEEK CAN DO," moans Anna Hauptmann, exonerated of any connection with her husband's case. "A week ago we were as happy as children, and now see the trouble we have." Squinting into the police camera is Bruno Richard Hauptmann as of September 1934, Prisoner 128221 of...