Word: abduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Segregationist by creed but able lawyer by profession, Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman is no man to fool around with racist lawlessness. Last month, when a bunch of masked toughs broke into a jail at Poplarville (pop. 2,500) to abduct and kill an accused Negro rapist named Mack Charles Parker, Governor Coleman acted swiftly and sensibly: he asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter the case. From that point on, event followed event with the predictability of a Pearl White flicker...
Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, who heard the case in Washington, acknowledged the military's right to try a civilian for his military crimes, but questioned its authority to arrest a civilian, much less abduct him to a foreign country. Then Judge Holtzoff ruled that a writ of habeas corpus should be issued. The Air Force reluctantly brought its prisoner home for a court hearing scheduled for next week...
...court-martial in Salzburg last week convicted an American corporal and a sergeant of kidnaping. Corporal Paul Abel got 20 years and Sergeant John Frankey got 15 years after they confessed that they had taken $653 from the Russians to abduct a gardener named Oswald Eder, a double spy who served both the Russians and the Allies (TIME...