Word: ransomes
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...arrest one "Stew"' Donnelly, onetime Florida confidence man, when he emerges from prison in France, two New York detectives shipped on S. S. Aqnitania for Cherbourg. Reason: Donnelly is believed to be the first underworking on whom has been found money bearing the serial numbers of the Lindbergh ransom money...
...Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. who has two automobiles named after him. As early as 1887 he made in his family's machine shop a steamer which he tested on the streets of Lansing, Mich. before dawn so that he would not annoy his horse-driving neighbors. Four years later he sold to a firm in India the first automobile ever to be exported from the U. S. By 1899 he was building the first factory in the U. S. designed solely for automobile production. In a few years the early curve-dash...
...Chinese passengers aboard the Norviken whipped out revolvers, rushed the bridge, overpowered the officers, rushed the engine room, smashed the wireless. At their leisure the pirates stripped seven European passengers of their valuables, lowered boats and. unmolested, made for the shore carrying ten nonpiratical Chinese to be held for ransom...
...game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta's First National. The Game & Fish Commissioner did his duty, arrested them...
...snatching of a famed dog call attention to pupnapping. That it had become a new racket was last week apparent from other reports. In Memphis police searched for a man driving an old wagon, who represented himself as a humane society officer, seized dogs, held them for ransom. In Kansas City, Alice Wolfberg missed her chow, Ching. By telephone a man demanded $10 from her, later $20. She agreed to pay but summoned police. They arrested two men who arrived to collect...