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Police suspected no "higher-ups." Federal officers at once took charge and custody under the statute passed last July, carrying penalties for mailing kidnap threats and ransom demands of $5,000 fine or 20 years in prison or both. The other new sword to avenge Baby Lindbergh is the 1932 Federal law against actual interstate kidnapping, providing "such term of years [in prison] as the court, in its discretion shall determine...
...jail sentences. Buncombe County courts declared forfeit their $50,000 bonds, written by New Orleans' Union Indemnity Co. (now in receivership). Meanwhile in Nashville, Tenn., the Leas prepared to fight extradition, had a lawyer sleeping in their big house to spike any attempt by North Carolina officials to kidnap them. Few days later the Leas suddenly disappeared. Reports that they had been arrested in the mountains at Jamestown were denied. Questioned as to her husband's whereabouts Mrs. Lea Sr. said: "The Colonel is very busy...
...took one brief, graceful bow, reverted quickly to Chim-Fen, the opium dealer. People forgot that the dark hollow voice was only a shell of what it used to be. Chim-Fen's sinister shadow filled the stage while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap, buried a hatchet in the neck of the man who found him out. When his own sleek cue was finally twisted around his neck, his murderer bolstered him against a lamp post, talked to him casually until a policeman approached on his rounds. The policeman passed. The body fell...
...small Anne Cannon Reynolds II, two-year-old daughter of Smith Reynolds' first wife. In a deserted house near Atlanta last week, police used a special electric trap to catch an ex-convict and parachute jumper named Odell Boyles who had been threatening to kidnap small Anne Reynolds II so persistently that she had had a police guard for the last three months. The Brandon Smiths had kept the house lit up, lights burning on the grounds of their estate night after night for three months to foil marauders...
...time refused to review their appeal from a conviction of conspiracy to defraud a bank in Buncombe County, N. C. Free under bond, the Leas were ordered rounded up to serve jail sentences. Onetime U. S. Senator, close associate of brash Banker Rogers Clark Caldwell, Col. Lea tried to kidnap the Kaiser as a Christmas present for Woodrow Wilson...