Word: kidnapings
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...stirred with tense excitement as Witness Urschel identified the chain and battered tin cup which definitely established his hideout as the gangster-ridden Texas farm of R. G. ("Boss") Shannon. In the most graphic and sensational trial Oklahoma had seen in years, twelve defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap the wealthy oil man. whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances with...
States, too, were last week joining the anti-kidnap war. California passed a bill fixing the death penalty or life imprisonment for kidnappers who harm their victims.* In Albany, Governor Lehman urged New York's Legislature to make kidnapping punishable by death unless the victim is returned before trial; to make it a felony to pay ransom or withhold information about a kidnapping case...
Lest the public get the notion that the Law is helpless in the face of thugdom, the Associated Press called to mind that in 18 notorious kidnapping cases in the past three years, 43 criminals have been jailed, three are dead, ten await trial. Prior to last week, the four most important kidnappees of the year were Broker Charles Boettcher II of Denver, little Peggy McMath of Cape Cod. Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's city manager, and Brewer William Hamm of St. Paul. The abductors of all save Hamm are either doing time or awaiting trial...
...middle of one night last week a telephone call was put through to the White House spoiling Franklin Roosevelt's peace of mind. A newspaper was asking what he knew about the plot to kidnap his 15-month-old grandchild, Sara Delano Roosevelt. Not till his son James had assured him by telephone that there was no plot were his fears appeased...
Married. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann, relict of New York Morning Telegraph Publisher Edward Russell Thomas; and William Magraw, president of Manhattan's Underground Installations Co.; in Manhattan. Later kidnappers demanded $150,000 not to kidnap the bride's daughter Lucetta Cotton Thomas, 7, $2,000,000 heiress...