Word: kidnapping
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...Last of the Hill-Billies," a skit by H. I. Phillips, New York Sun columnist, showing a cabin full of mountaineers taking potshots at agents, theatrical, not revenue, who have come to kidnap the last of the mountain musicians for the radio and stage...
...Irish Sweepstakes ticket. When he heard that his ticket had won him $75,000 he thought first of an automobile, a store, some new clothes, college for the twin boys of his widower brother. Then he began to worry. Now that he was rich someone might kidnap the twins...
...June 17, 1932, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law making kidnapping across state lines a Federal felony. This act pitted the U. S. Government directly against the virulent "snatch" racket for the first time. Free from the corruption of local politics, superbly trained and equipped with tip-top morale, the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation buckled to its new and difficult work with a will. Up to last week it had acted in 31 kidnapping cases, returned alive all but one kidnappee. Of the 74 "snatchers" whom Federal agents had helped to catch and convict, two had been...
...dissuaded when the pressagent, pretending that the affianced couple are expecting a child, exhibits a tiny sweater. The actress shudders eloquently. Hipper's Holiday (by John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage...
...campaign to electrocute Bruno Hauptmann at the State Prison in Trenton by the spring of 1935 went relentlessly on. In the earth below the Hauptmann garage New York police found a barrel of nails such as those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector...