Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haskell Bonn, 22, son of a St. Paul refrigerator manufacturer, was snatched in June 1932. He was returned alive within a week after his father paid $12,000 ransom. Last February Federal agents put Gangster Verne Sankey into a South Dakota prison where he killed himself after confessing to kidnapping not only young Bohn but Charles Boettcher II, Denver broker (TIME...
...first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message at 7 p. m. from a relative of Mrs. Stoll, onetime Ambassador Frederick M. Sackett Jr. Within 24 hr. the D. O. I. laboratories had the $50,000 ransom note, had found fingerprints and identified them, among nearly five million on file, as belonging to a young Nashville maniac named Robinson. Foolish Kidnapper Robinson named his father in Nashville as intermediary and money-passer...
...Indianapolis that Kidnapper Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until...
...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 by the end of Act II. When the hobo begins shooting, he hits a goldfish bowl. The innocent owner of the kidnap apartment, who happens to be the toughest and slickest...
Kelth's Boston: "Million Dollar Ransom"--Damon Runyon's well-known story with Philips Holmes, Edward Arnold and Mary Carlisle...