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...from a car behind, Factor & friend were spirited away in the gangsters' automobile. The friend was dumped out not long after. Until in the Lindbergh case they historically overstepped the mark, the nation's kidnappers had for the most part confined themselves to snatching each other. Ransom was paid, the victim released and nobody, including the police, was much the wiser. Jake the Barber was one of the few underworldlings left with appreciable means. He has peddled spurious stocks on two continents-in dry oil wells, flooded Florida land, non-existent glass casket companies-since he professionally laid...
Kidnapped for $250,000 ransom was John J. O'Connell Jr., 24, nephew of Albany County, N. Y., Democratic Bosses Edward J. and Daniel P, O'ConnelL...
...1/25th of the student body who call themselves liberalists and contribute to the college about nothing but destructive criticism and adolescent judgment-for instance, asking that one of their number be made one of the trustees was one of their brilliant ideas, a 19-year-old trustee! MARY ELIZABETH RANSOM...
...Yingkow-Kaopangtze train on the South Manchuria Railway was twice held up last week. Two white Russian railway guards were killed, the train was looted and 52 passengers carried off for ransom...
...indictment of Gaston B. Means for trying to swindle Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of $35,000 to be used in exchange for "hot" ransom money paid to kidnappers in the Lindbergh case (TIME, May 16, 1932): conviction in the District of Columbia Supreme Court of Means and Co-defendant Norman T. Whitaker...