Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hours later the telephone rang in the Hart home in San Jose. To Brooke Hart's sister a voice said: "Your brother is being held for $40.000 ransom, and if the family notifies the police, they will never see Brooke Hart again." A printed card and two letters arrived later from the kidnappers: "Your son is o.k. and treated well. ... Be ready to take a week's trip on an hour's notice. . . . Brooke is not with the writer but is held at a remote point. ... He is being treated as well as possible...
...almost simultaneously, came a barrage of statistics to back up Editor Fishbein. It is generally agreed that the U. S. is one of the unsafest places in the civilized world to have a baby. Four years ago the New York Academy of Medicine appointed a committee, headed by Dr. Ransom S. Hooker, to find out why. In New York City, home of specialists and medical centres, where maternal mortality is considerably less than that of the U. S. as a whole, the committee set out to analyze the cause of every death of a woman in childbirth. Last week...
...proposed services on behalf of the kidnapped man-$1,000 to be paid immediately, $10,000 when Berg was released. Levinson. who felt that Richards knew altogether too much about the kidnapping, played along with him until Berg was released, then reported him to the police. Before any ransom had been paid, Richards was arrested. He got himself acquitted in a St. Louis court seven months later, only to find that the Missouri and St. Louis Bar Associations were prepared to run him out of the profession. To save time, the Bar Associations took their case direct to the State...
...conviction by a jury in Oklahoma City of the seven kidnappers who held Charles Frederick Urschel, Oklahoma oilman, for $200,000 ransom (TIME. Oct. 9): life sentences by Federal Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught on Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, leaders of the kidnapping gang, and on R. L. Shannon & his wife Ora who hid Urschel on their Texas farm; a suspended sentence of ten years on the Shannons' 22-year-old son Armon; sentences of five years on Clifford Skelly and Edward Berman, Minneapolis money passers who handled part of the ransom. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly & his wife Kathryn...
Wimpole Street backed up against one of London's grisliest slums, one of whose well-organized rackets it was to steal Wimpole Street's pets and hold them for ransom. If the ransom were not quickly forthcoming, the pet's paws and head were returned to the owners in a bag. Once (in reality, three times, says Biographer Woolf in a note) Flush was so kidnapped by these racketeers. Everybody, including Mr. Browning, advised Miss Barrett to refuse to pay ransom, sacrifice Flush on the altar of law & order. Miss Barrett indignantly refused, went herself to beard...