Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation makes it a Federal offense to: 1) send ransom notes or kidnap threats across state lines; 2) kill or assault Federal officers on duty; 3) flee across state lines to avoid prosecution for a felony or testifying in a criminal case. The new laws likewise authorize the death penalty for kidnappers who fail to return their victims unharmed...
Within a few hours of each other, one evening early this week, two western kidnapping cases came to happy endings. Found in the desert near Tucson, Ariz, three weeks after she had been snatched was June Robles, 6, granddaughter of a Tucson cattleman. No ransom was paid, no snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly...
...arrest one "Stew"' Donnelly, onetime Florida confidence man, when he emerges from prison in France, two New York detectives shipped on S. S. Aqnitania for Cherbourg. Reason: Donnelly is believed to be the first underworking on whom has been found money bearing the serial numbers of the Lindbergh ransom money...
...Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. who has two automobiles named after him. As early as 1887 he made in his family's machine shop a steamer which he tested on the streets of Lansing, Mich. before dawn so that he would not annoy his horse-driving neighbors. Four years later he sold to a firm in India the first automobile ever to be exported from the U. S. By 1899 he was building the first factory in the U. S. designed solely for automobile production. In a few years the early curve-dash...
...game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta's First National. The Game & Fish Commissioner did his duty, arrested them...