Word: kidnaping
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...signed a petition 23 miles long to be sent to the German Government. The German Government after reading the petition will, according to the hopes of 2,086,764 Americans, release Lieutenant Corliss Hooven Griffis, who is in a German prison camp for attempting to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll notorious for escaping the draft...
...report was, however, partly substantiated by evidence from Moscow, received by the British Foreign Office, which purported to prove the Cheka had attempted to "kidnap" the War Lord, presumably for "flirting with the monarchists and plotting to make himself a dictator a la mode under a puppet Tsar." It was not clear whether this report had any connection with his arrest, but the details of the attempted kidnapping...
When the S. S. Essequibo arrived in Manhattan a story was unfolded of a plot to kidnap the autocratic President of Peru, Señor A. B. Leguia...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, slacker: "In Berlin I filed a damage suit for $150,000 against Corliss Hooven Griffis, an American Army officer now in jail at Mossbach in connection with an attempt to kidnap me last Summer (TIME...
...intelligence operatives attached to the American Expedition ary Forces at Coblenz attempted to kidnap Bergdoll at Eberbach. Shots were exchanged; a girl bystander was wounded in the hand; the operatives were sentenced to fifteen and six months' imprisonment, respectively. Efforts of the American Legion got the prisoners released on condition of a compensation for the wounded girl. Since then it has been reported a number of times that Americans planned to capture Bergdoll and bring him to the United States to take his medicine...