Word: iraola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buenos Aires sizzled up to 97° last week, and it was hot even at Mar del Plata, Argentina's swank summer resort 250 miles south across the pampas. At nearby La Sorpresa, the great wooded estancia of one of Argentina's first families, Sportsman Simon Pereyra Iraola was entertaining his father-in-law, Senator Antonio Santamarina, leader of Argentina's Democratic party. Rancher Pereyra Iraola had ridden over from his neighboring estancia, San Simon, where he breeds some of the Argentine's finest horses. The next to youngest of the Pereyra Iraolas' seven children...
Within a few hours every peon in the Pereyra Iraolas' neighborhood was stuttering out answers to police, every estancia gate and fence in rich Buenos Aires province was carefully watched. If Father Pereyra Iraola is no such popular hero as Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Senator Santamarina is nevertheless politically potent, and his brother Enrique, who heads the great Banco de la Nacion, is extremely rich. Also, a great-uncle of the kidnapped child is Carlos M. Noel, president of Argentina's Chamber of Deputies...
...Sorpresa, the Provincial Chief of Detectives, famed Fernandez Bazan, began to round up suspects. The truck driver, one La Fuente, who had carried Father Pereyra Iraola's baggage from San Simon and had left just before the kidnapping, was dismissed after claiming that two unknown men had asked him for road directions. Two neighborhood vagrants, a Russian and an Italian, were vainly questioned. Then police captured a thick-witted peon named José Gancedo who had disappeared from La Sorpresa the night of the kidnapping, and who aroused further suspicion by failing to explain where...
...manhunt tightened around Buenos Aires, where Pin Head Gordillo's lieutenant, one Antonio Capriolo, was still at large. Every car entering the Federal District was stopped and searched. The newspaper Critica scooped its competitors with a "life size" portrait of Baby Pereyra Iraola. Suddenly in a crowded Buenos Aires square, searching police caught sight of Antonio Capriolo, opened fire over the heads of terrified passersby. After a brief duel Public Enemy Capriolo escaped...
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