Word: kidnaping
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Congress' reaction to the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son was shock, rage and a stiff law: "Whoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any person who has been unlawfully kidnaped and held for ransom or otherwise, shall be punished by death if the kidnaped person has not been liberated unharmed and if the verdict of the jury shall so recommend." Last week, on the basis of the jury verdict last clause, the Supreme Court struck down the Lindbergh law's death-penalty provision...
Objections to the law had been raised by attorneys for Charles ("Batman") Jackson and two henchmen who were accused of a 1966 kidnap during which their victim, a young truck driver, was taken from Connecticut to New Jersey and tied to a tree (he suffered rope burns). The lawyers argued that since the death penalty could only be imposed by a jury, the defendants were being made to risk a harsher punishment if they chose jury trial; by pleading guilty or by asking to be tried by a judge alone, they would not face death. Speaking...
...defense attorneys also attacked the indictment itself as impermissibly vague. By claiming the defendants took part in a nationwide draft resistance movement without specifying its nature, Taylor said, the Government could introduce "evidence of a con- spiracy to assassinate General Hershey and kidnap members of the draft boards." The indictment's vagueness, the defense lawyers said, made it impossible for the five men to know what evidence would be produced against them, or how to prepare to refute...
...three one-minute Pontiac commercials. One shows Bonnie and Clyde in the hands of an effervescent dealer. The gang has just pulled a bank job and needs "something that moves." The rest of the commercial is a hilarious takeoff on the scene from the movie in which the bandits kidnap a young couple. In this case, the unsuspecting Pontiac salesman merrily delivers his pitch-again to a banjo score-while Clyde & Co. barrel down the road with him. At length, they boot him out. Says the salesman, unperturbed: "How are you going to finance it?" Bonnie mutters sullenly: "Finance...
...World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...