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Scratch a stolid Swiss and you have scratched the most orderly of men. In Berne last week the Swiss Government decided they could no longer wink at the disorderly Nazi practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
...working in London with Scotland Yard and in Paris with the Surete Nationale. Jacob is a German, a Jew and an undistinguished journalist who has done articles critical of Nazidom for English papers. In London a certain Dr. Hans Wesemann, believed by Swiss last week to head an international kidnap & murder ring operating for the German Government, arranged for Jacob to go from his home in Strasbourg to Basle, Switzerland on promise of pay for further free-lance work. On the night of March 9, Wesemann, posing as an anti-Nazi, and Jacob left the Basle Restaurant Zum Schiefen...
...tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...
Miami, Fla., Feb. 4--Assistant District Attorney W. Sanders Gramling left for Jacksonville tonight to ask the Federal Grand Jury to indict three companions of Alvin Karpis and two men charged with harboring the Bremer kidnap suspect...
...document were warned not to reveal the booklet's contents "to any newspaper, as all news of this trial has been suppressed by order of court." There followed in strict legal form the record of a case in which one John Doe, tramp, was tried for the "kidnap and murder" of a 20-month-old child named Charles A. Limberg Jr. on the night of March 1, 1932 near Hoaxwell, N. J. Attorney for the defense convinced a jury that the child had wandered out of his house of his own accord, could have died of exposure or could...