Word: kidnapings
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...Baden, Germany. Out side the hotel, in an old U. S. army car, waited Lieutenant Griffith, U. S. Army, and "Prince" Gargarin, a Russian. After the shooting a crowd menaced the two in the car, who promptly started for Heidelberg and were arrested en route, charged with attempting to kidnap Bergdoll. Bergdoll went free of any homicidal charge. He was a local hero. Lieutenant Griffith and " Prince " Gargarin, jailed and awaiting a trial, escaped a lynching by no great margin...
...just preceding the discovery of gold in Southern California, when the Americans and Mexicans were struggling for possession. Chonita, the daughter of a wealthy Mexican, is loved by the leaders of the rival forces, Captain Burton and Bernal. Burton wins Chonita's affection, and Bernal, in despair, tries to kidnap her, but is killed by her maid. The last scene shows Burton and Chonita together in the old mission...
...classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate, and given a year or more of imprisonment. This would be an admirable joke...
...University: The freshmen of Cornell University were making preparations for a banquet to come off tomorrow evening, and the sophomores concluded that the feast should not be graced by the presence of C. W. Belestier and E. R. Blood, vice-president of the class. Preparations were made, therefore, to kidnap these two freshmen and keep them in durance until the banquet was over. At 3 o'clock this morning about 40 sophomores swarmed in front of the door leading to the freshmen's rooms. Finding the door barricaded, they cut it down with an axe. The two frightened freshmen were...