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...Haskell Bonn, 22, son of a St. Paul refrigerator manufacturer, was snatched in June 1932. He was returned alive within a week after his father paid $12,000 ransom. Last February Federal agents put Gangster Verne Sankey into a South Dakota prison where he killed himself after confessing to kidnapping not only young Bohn but Charles Boettcher II, Denver broker (TIME...
...first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message at 7 p. m. from a relative of Mrs. Stoll, onetime Ambassador Frederick M. Sackett Jr. Within 24 hr. the D. O. I. laboratories had the $50,000 ransom note, had found fingerprints and identified them, among nearly five million on file, as belonging to a young Nashville maniac named Robinson. Foolish Kidnapper Robinson named his father in Nashville as intermediary and money-passer...
Kelth's Boston: "Million Dollar Ransom"--Damon Runyon's well-known story with Philips Holmes, Edward Arnold and Mary Carlisle...
...Jersey thicket in 1929. One of Hauptmann's oldest friends, he died in destitution last March in Leipzig. He and Hauptmann dealt in furs from time to time. Fisch's friends in The Bronx knew him as penniless. Hauptmann's story as to how he came by the Lindbergh ransom money was that Fisch left it with him, told him it was "old letters." When Fisch died, Hauptmann said he discovered the cash, appropriated it to satisfy an unpaid $7,500 loan...
GOING, GOING, GONE is the garage where Bruno Hauptmann stored his car and where police first found $13,750 of the Lindbergh ransom money. By demolishing the building stick-by-stick and then burrowing into the ground below, police last week found another $840 in "hot" cash. Pauline Rauch, the Hauptmanns' landlady, rented them the top floor of her house, but Hauptmann paid for most of the material and built the nearby garage himself...