Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Head and Rye Beach, N. H. when an unparalleled "wave" of abductions, three major kidnappings and half a dozen attempted ones, burst violently into the news last week. Swindler. Three weeks ago at "The Dells," a suburban roadhouse northwest of Chicago celebrated for good orchestras and bad customers, John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, his shapely second wife and Son Jerome, 19, were entertaining a party of friends. "The Dells" is about three miles from the Evanston line on a wide and main-traveled concrete road. Not far down it, on the way home, Jake the Barber...
...representations to the U. S. State Department, claiming that Factor's abduction was a ruse under which he was making an escape to Mexico in order to avoid extradition to England, where charges resulting from the $7,000,000 coup are pending. But Jake the Barber was neither in Oklahoma, Virginia, Florida or Mexico. He never left Illinois. An unnamed friend turned over $50,000 to some unnamed men in an automobile, reputedly at Hinsdale, western Chicago suburb. After twelve days in captivity. Factor was released at La Grange, 111., three blocks from the police station. His clothes were...
...Chicago kidnapping of John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's son Jerome (TIME, April 24): Jerome's return early one morning. Factor claimed he had gulled the kidnappers by publishing a letter he had written to himself, boosting the ransom price. They began to suspect a traitor among themselves...
...young couple spryly tripped out of Jake Wirth's. The gentleman looked at his watch, walked up to a man carrying a ladder and asked him where the theatre was. "I don't know: I don't know anything," he replied. Unfortunately there were no moving picture producers on Stuart Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery...
...years ago John ("Jake the Barber") Factor was fighting extradition to England on charges of having gulled Britons of some $5,000,000 (TIME, June 8, 1931). Hearing that Chicago kidnappers had marked him, he paid Chicago Gang Leader Alphonse Capone to tell them, "Lay off Jake Factor-or else. . . ." Last week, with Capone in jail, four men jumped out of a car on a Chicago street and grabbed Factor's anemic Son Jerome, 19, Northwestern University Junior. They wrote Factor, who is still at large, to get ready $50,000 in small bills or receive Jerome "in parts...