Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arguments the defense used to wedge a loophole through which Hauptmann might escape the death penalty, five were outstanding. It was argued that Hauptmann had been deprived of his constitutional rights when Justice Thomas W. Trenchard had admitted the kidnap ladder in evidence at the trial. Also cited was his "misleading" charge to the jury. The defense contended that Prosecutor Wilentz had improperly switched during the trial from the assumption that Hauptmann had killed the child by dropping it outside the house to the theory that he had killed the child in its crib with a chisel. Particularly was Prosecutor...
...winter she had refused Daniel Shaw a dance date. Shortly thereafter came the first of a series of extortion notes, threatening her with death unless she handed over $3,000. Daniel Shaw was the gang's agent. On the afternoon of March 27 he had set out to kidnap or kill her. She had decided to kill him first...
Scratch a stolid Swiss and you have scratched the most orderly of men. In Berne last week the Swiss Government decided they could no longer wink at the disorderly Nazi practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
...working in London with Scotland Yard and in Paris with the Surete Nationale. Jacob is a German, a Jew and an undistinguished journalist who has done articles critical of Nazidom for English papers. In London a certain Dr. Hans Wesemann, believed by Swiss last week to head an international kidnap & murder ring operating for the German Government, arranged for Jacob to go from his home in Strasbourg to Basle, Switzerland on promise of pay for further free-lance work. On the night of March 9, Wesemann, posing as an anti-Nazi, and Jacob left the Basle Restaurant Zum Schiefen...
...tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have "brains...