Word: kidnap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small Anne Cannon Reynolds II, two-year-old daughter of Smith Reynolds' first wife. In a deserted house near Atlanta last week, police used a special electric trap to catch an ex-convict and parachute jumper named Odell Boyles who had been threatening to kidnap small Anne Reynolds II so persistently that she had had a police guard for the last three months. The Brandon Smiths had kept the house lit up, lights burning on the grounds of their estate night after night for three months to foil marauders...
...time refused to review their appeal from a conviction of conspiracy to defraud a bank in Buncombe County, N. C. Free under bond, the Leas were ordered rounded up to serve jail sentences. Onetime U. S. Senator, close associate of brash Banker Rogers Clark Caldwell, Col. Lea tried to kidnap the Kaiser as a Christmas present for Woodrow Wilson...
...newly opened restaurants which served a hearty meal for the trifling price of 20 centavos (5?). The restaurants proved to be "revolutionary cantonments." One, directly across from the Central Police Station, had especially big pineapples. Police eyes bulged at a letter mentioning that the chain-restaurant revolutionists planned "to kidnap the President of the Republic and other high officials...
...dogs mentioned, I guess. I have a little friend who has what Dad says is just "a mangy cur,'' another of the seven millions, but Bobby loves him just as much as I love my police dog, and it would be fun to see someone try to kidnap Bobby, or any of us, when "Rough Neck" is around...
...Still in Athens, last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express...