Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, Prince Esterhazy offered a ransom for the skull. Rosenbaum solemnly sent a random substitute which was duly buried with Haydn's bones. The prince never paid the promised ransom, but Rosenbaum had the last laugh, confessed the fraud in pale glee on his deathbed. He passed the relic to a friend, with the request that it be placed eventually in the museum of Vienna's ultra-respectable Society of the Friends of Music. After long delays, the skull reached the museum in 1895, where it rests today in a glass case...
Robert C. Greenlease, 71, Bobby's father, described the tortuous ransom negotiations with Hall. Mrs. Heady yawned...
...confession was read, and Bonnie reacted with a hurt-cur look to his frequent references to her being drunk and "again inebriated." Hall said that when he was arrested in St. Louis by Police Lieut. Shoulders and a patrolman, he still had about $592,000 of the $600,000 ransom money. Some $300,000 is still missing...
...arrest of Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady, the kidnapers and killers of little Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Oct. 19). But FBI agents began to suspect that something had gone wrong with routine as they searched for some $300,000 still unrecovered of the $600,000 Greenlease ransom...
This cleared up the case, except for the whereabouts of some $300,000 of ransom money, for which police are still searching. After confessing. Hall sank into a sullen silence, and Mrs. Heady asked for a pencil so she could work a crossword puzzle. The request was refused because she was classed as a "maximum security prisoner." So she settled down with a comic book: Intimate Love. Hall was being kept in solitary confinement, so that other prisoners would not harm...