Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considers Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh guilty of petty treason? No-one but Mr. Wagner. Who would consider him guilty of murder if. he refused to pay a ransom? Everyone but Mr. Wagner. The murder not only of Charles Augustus Jr. but possibly the murder of his wife and unborn child...
...Lindbergh refused to pay ransom; if they backed the State police, Federal agents, private detectives; if they stood behind the powerful press, if they resolved to prosecute the criminals, they would wield such a mighty club that kidnapping would become a rare crime...
...Manhattan, an extortionist was sent to the penitentiary for 50 years, guilty of abducting for ransom an East Side butcher...
Facts. It was announced that the original ransom demand (not yet made public) was found some hours after the child's disappearance was discovered, and not, as originally reported, when Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh first rushed with Nurse Betty Gow into the nursery. And both parents were not downstairs when Nurse Gow found the crib empty. Mrs. Lindbergh was on the second floor taking a bath. Learning that Mrs. Lindbergh did not have the baby, Nurse Gow went downstairs to see if the child was with his father (who calls...
Federal Law. There are many U. S. children whose parents could afford to pay rich ransom for their return were they kidnapped. But no kidnappee in the land could arouse so much public indignation against the kidnapping racket as Charles Augustus Lindbergh...