Word: kidnappings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very, very important, so be ready." Ten years after his dream, he found himself again in Las Palomas, this time as mate of the Pathfinder. "Now," he thought, "it will come true as appointed." He went ashore to see a prizefight, at the ringside heard one Sagrado plotting to kidnap an English girl named Kingsborough who was stay ng at Xicales ; he borrowed a bicycle, rode out to warn her. Kingsborough was not the name he had known her by when he had seen her for the first of the "three times...
...signed a petition 23 miles long to be sent to the German Government. The German Government after reading the petition will, according to the hopes of 2,086,764 Americans, release Lieutenant Corliss Hooven Griffis, who is in a German prison camp for attempting to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll notorious for escaping the draft...
...report was, however, partly substantiated by evidence from Moscow, received by the British Foreign Office, which purported to prove the Cheka had attempted to "kidnap" the War Lord, presumably for "flirting with the monarchists and plotting to make himself a dictator a la mode under a puppet Tsar." It was not clear whether this report had any connection with his arrest, but the details of the attempted kidnapping...
When the S. S. Essequibo arrived in Manhattan a story was unfolded of a plot to kidnap the autocratic President of Peru, Señor A. B. Leguia...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, slacker: "In Berlin I filed a damage suit for $150,000 against Corliss Hooven Griffis, an American Army officer now in jail at Mossbach in connection with an attempt to kidnap me last Summer (TIME...