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...Kansas City stirred expectantly one day last week when a trim young woman clad in a grey dress and a white hat climbed onto the witness stand. She was Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's City Manager. Two months prior she had been abducted for $30,000 ransom (TIME, July...
...jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with an accomplice had taken the girl from her bath to a filthy cellar once used as a chicken roost, had kept her chained to the wall for 29 hours; how they had negotiated for a $60,000 ransom from her father and had finally collected $30,000; how Walter McGee, arrested in Amarillo, Tex., had con fessed...
...weeks ago his uncles agreed to talk. To a list of 13 questions put to him by newshawks, Uncle Edward gave brief staccato answers over the telephone. He admitted that he had not succeeded in establishing direct contact with the kidnappers, denied rumors that he had already paid a ransom. "We are waiting for news," said...
...both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded $75,000,000, arranged to pay ransom as soon as contact was established with the kidnappers...
...taken into the O'Connell family's confidence. In Albany their word is law. They were going to get their boy back in their own way. Up to late last week they had not gotten him. Ransom asked: $250,000. Banker. The courtesy of a sick old gentleman, neither brewer nor swindler, resulted in his kidnapping at Alton, 111. one night last week. At 9 p. m., August Luer, 77, and his wife were preparing to retire when two men and a woman appeared at their door, said they wanted to communicate with one of the Luers...