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Near Chicago John J. ("Jack") Lynch, part owner of a turf news service, was left on a road in his own automobile and promptly drove to his home at Lake Geneva, Wis. There he denied that an associate had paid $50,000 for his release. Unlike Kidnappee Rosenthal. Kidnappee Lynch said he would do all he could to help capture and convict the seven men who had held up his car with shotguns, tied him up and held him for six days. During those six days friends of Mr. Lynch had appealed to no less a person than Chief Gangster...
Investigator Roche thought Lynch had been kidnapped by the gang formerly headed by Fred ("Killer") Burke of St. Louis, where the kidnapping business is so highly developed that socialites leave their expensive cars in their garages and go to parties in inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett...
...police brought in Oliver and wrung a confession from him, the first of four lynching attempts occurred. Escaping the mob at Ypsilanti, the three were taken to the Ann Arbor jail, where a fresh mob gathered, tore at the prisoners' clothes, clawed their faces, cried for their blood. Reinforced by carloads of men from Ypsilanti, the crowd surged around the insecure jail, shouting: ''Lynch them! Burn them!" The three cowering men were rushed into automobiles and whisked to the court house where Judge George W. Sample was waiting. Said Judge Sample: "I feel like...
...YALE 1934 ab r h po a e Lynch, c.f. 6 0 0 1 0 0 Williamson, 2b. 5 2 3 1 2 0 Hitney, r.f. 4 0 1 2 0 0 Gengarelly, 1b. 3 2 3 8 0 0 Nikkel, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 Lynch, 3b. 4 1 1 0 1 0 Kroehl, s.s. 3 0 1 2 2 0 Broaca, p. 3 0 1 0 2 0 Collins, c.3 1 0 13 0 0 Totals...
...Jones of Caius College argued against Chicago: "It is governed by two heathen Gods: Mars, the God of Battle; and Bacchus, God of the Bottle." This alliteration was well received. Finally Edgar Wallace argued for Chicago- (it was pleasantly impossible at times to tell who was for what): "The lynch law will eventually wipe out those deplorable men who sit in the seat of government." Having amused themselves thus for a whole evening, members of the Cambridge Union voted 171 to 143 that Chicago must experience the fate of Carthage...