Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...
...snatching of a famed dog call attention to pupnapping. That it had become a new racket was last week apparent from other reports. In Memphis police searched for a man driving an old wagon, who represented himself as a humane society officer, seized dogs, held them for ransom. In Kansas City, Alice Wolfberg missed her chow, Ching. By telephone a man demanded $10 from her, later $20. She agreed to pay but summoned police. They arrested two men who arrived to collect...
...Sioux Falls, wistful-looking Verne Sankey, arrested week before in a Chicago barber's chair, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself to an iron cross beam. Next day he was to have pleaded guilty to the kidnapping in 1932 of Haskell Bohn of St. Paul (ransom: $12,000) and in 1933 of Charles Boettcher II of Denver (ransom: $60,000), whom he hid on his Dakota turkey ranch. Next day Sankey's accomplice, Gordon Alcorn, was sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life in Leavenworth for his part in the snatchings...
...Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
...with all the tricks of the stage.* A few years ago the prima donna had a dozen great impresarios. Last week General Motors, preparing for motor show festivities, called the roll of its past executives. Among them were William Crapo Durant, Henry Martyn Leland, Alexander Winton, John D. Maxwell, Ransom Eli Olds, Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin- impresarios...