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Half a mile south of California's San Mateo bridge on which he had been murdered last month (TIME, Nov. 27), kidnapped Brooke Hart's body was found in five feet of water by duck hunters one morning last week. Employes in his father's San Jose department store identified the body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call...
...League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, they doubled back toward Lisbon. Forced down by fog off the coast of Spain, they came ashore in a little fishing village named Santona, were accosted by an officer who had never heard Colonel Lindbergh's name. A local tycoon named Jose Alvo took them into his house, importantly answered telephone calls from London and Paris trying to trace their whereabouts. Senor Alvo informed one caller: "Yes. Senor Lindbergh is here. He is taking a bath." Two days later, when fog forced them down again on the Minho River, they spent the night...
...still dusk fortnight ago a small closed car sped along the highway between San Jose, Calif, and San Mateo. Inside were two kidnappers and their victim, Brooke Hart, 22. son of San Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...
Three hours later the telephone rang in the Hart home in San Jose. To Brooke Hart's sister a voice said: "Your brother is being held for $40.000 ransom, and if the family notifies the police, they will never see Brooke Hart again." A printed card and two letters arrived later from the kidnappers: "Your son is o.k. and treated well. ... Be ready to take a week's trip on an hour's notice. . . . Brooke is not with the writer but is held at a remote point. ... He is being treated as well as possible...
...tense days the family waited while police hunted. One night last week the kidnappers again telephoned the Hart home. Police intercepted the call, traced it to a garage near San Jose City Hall. At the garage they found a husky man in a faded blue sweater still talking in the telephone booth. They dragged him out. He said his name was Thurmond. At a nearby hotel they caught his accomplice, one John Holmes, unemployed oil worker...