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Thus unsuccessfully ended the elaborate attempt of Chicago and Federal police to trap John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's kidnappers who had audaciously demanded a payment of $50,000 in addition to the $50,000 they collected when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in Factor's apartment the officers had learned of the second extortion demand, persuaded the frightened Factor to let them lay an elaborate ambush. All they got for their pains was the hat & coat and the damaged sedan, the license of which was listed under the name...
...Atlas Mountains. In a slow encircling movement he herded them northwest to the rim of the desert. His plodding columns closed in from north, east and southeast like beaters in a lion hunt. On the south and southwest, crack Legion regiments waited for the prey to enter the trap. Slowly, suspiciously, the Berbers, carrying their women and children, rode into the mountains up four confluent valleys a year ago last spring. The trap was sprung...
...arrowhead of land between the rivers Test and Itchen six miles up the inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated...
While the grain pits were still ringing with the tale of a trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others...
London bobbies are killed like flies before two clever amateurs-who work with Scotland Yard because one wants to marry the Chief Commissioner's daughter-most ingeniously trap the monomaniac and his big black diary...