Word: ransoming
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...Tacoma police of their son's disappearance. The Governor of Washington dispatched a special detachment of the state patrol to join the hunt. Within 24 hours 15 Department of Justice operatives from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco had converged by plane, train and car on Tacoma. The fearfully expected ransom note, posted at 6 p.m., signed "The Egoist" and demanding $200,000 for George's safe return, arrived special delivery at the Weyerhaeuser home at 6:25. It directed that communication with "The Egoist" be inserted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over the name of "Percy Minnie." Next...
...series of swift developments lent credence to the belief the abductors intended to run the gauntlet of 30 Department of Justice agents and scores of state and city police to claim $200,000 ransom...
...Halloran. He was wanted badly by Army Chief of Staff Batista, with whom he had a deadly personal feud. For the record, however, Batista wanted him for three crimes: 1) the shooting of a treacherous colleague, 2) the kidnapping of a rich Cuban idler for the fabulous ransom of $300,000, and 3) engineering the unsuccessful general strike of two months...
...treeless flats near Liverpool, over 30 jumps, huge hedges & ditches wide as little rivers. Only the 300 yards in front of the grandstand are clearly visible to most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...
...Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor Charles V, imprisoned in Madrid and held for a nearly ruinous ransom...