Word: orthwein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder at once whether it will be the worthy Post-Dispatch or the noisy Star that ultimately takes credit for solving the case. Last January it was the Star's Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge who brought about the capture of the kidnapers of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 12). Last May it was the Post-Dispatch's ace, John T. Rogers, who returned the kidnaped Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength of his success in the Kelley case, was given an inside...
...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 was freed...
...drove away in his car. He did not return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 19 et ante}, a wealthy and prominent victim. (Mrs. Kelley is a daughter of the late William Cullen McBride, rich...
...anxiety, the rumors, the headlines, the goose-chases were reminiscent of many another kidnap case. There was the family "executive committee," to deal with police and press; a committee headed oddly enough by William D. Orthwein II, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Kelley and a cousin of young Adolphus Busch Orthwein. And there was the most intense rivalry in the local press, notably between St. Louis' two famed newshawks, Harry Thompson Brundidge of the Star, and John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch. Brundidge had scooped the town on the Adolphus Busch Orthwein case...
...this time it was Reporter Rogers' turn. Last week, on the eighth day after the kidnapping, he summoned William Orthwein to his (Rogers') home, presented to him Dr. Kelley. There they stayed until the Post-Dispatch had an extra on the streets, screaming: DR. KELLEY RELEASED TO POST-DISPATCH MAN. Some hours later the doctor was escorted to his home, where he told all reporters what the Post-Dispatch had already printed in infinite detail...