Word: pieper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kidnapping, said Nat J. L. Pieper, regional head of FBI, was vanishing from the U. S. Agent Pieper was addressing the San Francisco Commonwealth Club on the subject one day last week. A message interrupted Mr. Pieper's speech. It was a summons to suburban Hillsborough. There had been a startling kidnapping...
From a sobbing, grey-haired little woman Agent Pieper got the story. The woman, Mary Foley, nursemaid in the home of wealthy Count Marc de Tristan, had been taking three-year-old Marc Jr. for a walk when a car drove up beside them. A black-a-vised, beak-nosed man leaped out, grabbed Marc, slugged her when she fought him, sped off with the child towards San Mateo...
Friends brought champagne to the de Tristan house, and there were sounds of thankful revelry by night. FBIman Pieper, who had the honor of announcing the solution of the 186th of FBI's kidnapping cases, could now go on with his interrupted lecture...