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Second Charlie Ross kidnapping was chiefly significant as an interesting coincidence until its solution made it a major crime in its own right. This was when, at Santa Anita race track last January, Federal agents arrested a 27-year-oldex-lumber-jack named John Henry Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, whose pockets were stuffed with $14,000 in ransom bills. The lumberjack confessed kidnapping Mr. Ross, corroborated his confession by guiding his captors to a cave in the Wisconsin woods northwest of Spooner where were found the frozen corpses of Ross and one James Atwood Gray. Lumberjack Seadlund jauntily explained that...
...Chicago last week, on trial for his life, Lumberjack Seadlund gave a fascinated jury the details of the whole extraordinary story. He and Gray had taken Ross first to a wooden dugout near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to Spooner. By this time, the jurors gathered from the defendant's story, the affair had taken on the atmosphere of a camping trip in which his principal concern had been the comfort and convenience of the captive. Trouble between Seadlund and his less considerate accomplice apparently developed on this score...
...kidnappers, according to the "Lindbergh Law" is left to the discretion of the jury. Faced with a case which, factually at least, seemed as complete as the kidnapping of the first Charles Ross was the reverse, the jury took only an hour and 30 minutes to decide that Lumberjack Seadlund had earned...
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