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Salvatore ("Salvy") Spitale, engaged by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh as an underworld go-between during the kidnap negotiations, was arrested in a Manhattan speakeasy for carrying a loaded pistol, discharged next day because he had a permit from a rural county...
Last week Capt. Baker's friends persuaded the Nationalist government to take a strange step. Instead of paying more Baker ransoms, the Chinese Government agreed to try some kidnapping too. Yangtze naval patrols were ordered to raid Kienli villages, kidnap likely bandits in the hope of effecting a swap...
When the headlines scream KIDNAPED, St. Louis has learned to wonder at once whether it will be the worthy Post-Dispatch or the noisy Star that ultimately takes credit for solving the case. Last January it was the Star's Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge who brought about the capture of the kidnapers of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 12). Last May it was the Post-Dispatch's ace, John T. Rogers, who returned the kidnaped Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength...
Last week two major kidnap deals were consummated. At a New York police station appeared Charles Marvin Rosenthal, 24-year-old stockbroker, to announce that he had been freed by kidnappers who had held him 17 days in a New York apartment. A few hours earlier a black bag containing $50,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the check room of a hotel near Broadway. Kidnappee Rosenthal, who prior to his disappearance had lost heavily on the stockmarket, said he had been dragged out of a taxicab by three men, later said a beautiful brunette had delivered him into the hands...
...great sprees when they come to town, feel no need of a change. Then one day in the forest they run into measly little Grosjean and his desirable woman Karin. Both the brothers want Karin but David wants her most, so Charles helps him tie up Grosjean, kidnap the girl. Grosjean pursues them, somehow manages to catch up, shoots Charles. It is a shrewd blow, but Charles recovers. Such is Grosjean's remorse that he is allowed to join the brothers' menage. They drift to Mexico, collect more horses, women, children, a priest. Karin, tired of wandering, wants...