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...gave me a shock of recognition when I read that Lloyd's of London is issuing kidnap-insurance policies [March...
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...noted in my book Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case, in 1933, when a wave of kidnapings followed the abduction of the Lindbergh baby, many wealthy Americans requested Lloyd's to provide them with a hedge against possible abductions by introducing kidnap-insurance policies, and Lloyd's obliged them. The maximum protection Lloyd's offered an adult at that time was $100,000; the maximum for a child was the sum paid for the Lindbergh baby, recovered dead: $50,000. Thus kidnap insurance was not "all but unheard of a few years...
Allen's observation is peculiarly ironic. In the recent spate of kidnapings -Patricia Hearst, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy, Mrs. Eunice Kronholm of Minneapolis, eight-year-old John Calzadilla of Long Island-there has been one major exception to the generally sensible coverage of these stories: the Minneapolis television and press, including Allen's Tribune. Though the Trib was not alone in pursuing the Kronholm kidnap story with excessive zeal, its reportorial ingenuity and aggressiveness at times crowded its competitors -and its usual sense of discretion...
...gunman was identified as Ian Ball, 26, who apparently had hoped to kidnap the princess. In his car, police found a neatly typed but disjointed letter full of grievances against the royal family. The letter asked the Queen for a ransom of ?2 million ($4.7 million). Scotland Yard immediately launched an investigation to discover any possible accomplices; preliminary evidence indicated that Ball had acted alone...