Ja May.
MONDAY, APRIÉ 2, 1932.
AMERICA AND
THE
KIDNAPPERS
SIDELIGHTS ON LOATHSOME PROFESSION.
Police Impotence.
THE
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by
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It is the popular belief that tigated
Joseph Gerk, the Volstead Act is responsible, Chief of Police of St. because bootlegging, the off-Louis, only sixty-five indivi- spring of Prohibition, has been dual convictions have been ob the-major-and-best-organised-tained, though it is estimated racket of a foul series. The pro- that a total of 2,000 persons, or fits on the sale of liquor which from six to ten in each gang, went to the Government in the were implicated. Moreover, it is way of big revenue found their estimated that 50 per cent. of way with many additions, into kidnappings are never reported the pockets of the rum-runners to the police because parties in- and speakeasy proprietors. terested prefer to rely upon pri- It was a lucrative trade, which vate mediation with abductors. attracted to its ranks every Chicago kidnapping gangs are element of crime and lawlessness among the best organised. A¤- The kidnapping of a little woodpile, as they are called - child, the blonde, curly haired, and also to break up the profit in the country. Competition be- cording to Alexander Jamie,
Investigator
the for able alliance between the office- came keen to the extent of rival Chief blue-eyed offspring of the Lind-holders and gangsters was gangs shooting it out among "Secret Six," each member' is an berghs, and the eclipse for the gigantic. Who should apply the themselves for the possession of expert. Some devote their time to finding suitable victims, others time being of the forces of law axe to the root of the tree of "territory."
One racket led to another. to carrying out the abduction, corruption? and order, has revealed, like a
Cities like New York, Boston, There is the familiar instance of and still others to the delicate are towns where you may not bury task of collecting ransom with- lightning flash, to the American Philadelphia, and Chicago people, a state of inefficiency accustomed to vote the ticket of a person without permission of out getting caught.
To Sterner Hand on Crime. and rottenness exposed by the the local boss or vote farmer. A the funeral coach racket.
in prevent an outrage at the burial, few only, like Cincinnati,
Torture has been employed in Wickersham Report on crime,
Build- some cases, but as a rule the Ohio, have displaced the profes- terms are usually made. writes the New York correspon- sional spoilsmen by establishing ers who decline to pay for "pro-victim is well treated. The pro-
А a new officer called the City tection" risk bomb being fessional equipment of a kidnap- dent of the "Daily Telegraph."
a thrown into expensive machin-per in New York City, who was The Lindbergh affair, in fact, Manager, responsible not to
political machine but to the tax-ery, sometimes injuring work- trying to catch a girl, Included a has aroused the nation to reali-payers direct, an experiment men, and delaying contracts. canvas bag punched with holes
warranted by results. Barbers been fully
who refuse to pa- to admit air, and containing a ties as nothing else has
Such a reform, however, retronise laundries dictated by noose which could be tightened able to do, and in its present
quires much local organisation, the racketeers find themselves around the neck. temper is unlikely to tolerate and a, mandate from people without a supply of clean towels. Bills now before Congress Pig's Chitlings
kidnapping Federal any further half-measures to- aroused to the seriousness of the A customer may eat at any res- make wards the unruly elements in situation." And for that man-taurant he sefects, but the pro- offence when the criminals cross Imprison- pay a State boundary. the population. Little could the date to-day America is crusading prietor, who refuses
blackmail to the restaurant ment for life or the death sen- kidnappers have realised
"shark" will find his till plunder-tence is made subject to the dis- the storm they
were stirring End-Or Be Ended By Rackets
ed or plate-glass would sweep away the gangster
windows cretion of the Federal judge. To The menace of the racket in smashed. Shopkeepers and all his ways.
and remove kidnapping from the all its ramifications has been others will tell you quite can- iurisdiction of city courts will in realised at last, apparently be didly. "It doesn't pay to resist. itself be a tremendous advan- Niggers of the Woodpile. Mr. Wickersham, formerly cause we have learned in the
tage, and it is believed will di- quote Mr. Attorney-General of the United past two years, to
minish the number of cases that Wickershom's statement,
automatically by 50 per cent. States, and his committee prominent citizens exposed the "We must end the rackets reign of the racket and the rac- they will end us."
was
that with zeal and courage.
of
to
a
Lure of "Big Money." Little was heard of knidnap ping as a recognised criminal or calling until 1926. It is "the Another measure imposes
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pigeon-whisky distilling-have existed The gangs, as proved by an ing communications.
One of the most interesting holed, along with other reports in the United States for many investigation of the St. Louis the carnival of lawlessness, for was haphazard, and rackets as clever lawyers, who have spe- history in America is the whole- which Prohibition is held pri- they exist here to-day differ cialised in the discovery of tech-hearted way in which the people marily responsible.
from the old-fashioned crime as nical loopholes for their escape. here have approved the course American pride was humbled much as the aeroplane differs These loopholes arise largely taken by Col. Lindbergh in turn- by the Wickersham Report. from the one-horse buggy. The from the ability of the kidnap ing from constitutional authori- Barbel Moreover, the task of rebuilding rackets of 1932 fettered almost pers to cross State boundaries ty to the "big shots" of the Bream the government of cities in such every branch of human activity with their victima,
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a way as to eliminate the local and domestic relations, even to In 282 kidnappings in twenty-cover his child. politicians the niggers in the the judiciary and police.
eight States during 1980, inves-1 "Lone Eagle" and the Police.
It does not seem the right Catfish thing to do, but we should do the Codfish same," 18 a remark heard on Crabe
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The following unclaimeḍ tales
Eighteen continued with their Troops until they went away, to] 'university and are only temporari- ly inactive.
Seven are carrying on as Rover
Some of these are in grams are lying at the Eastern Ex- The approach of the next World Scouts. Spitale is classed by literate Jamboree in Hungary in 1988 has over Crews they were instru- tension Telegraph Co.'s office:-
Dr. Murphy, care of Gilman Co., gangsters with Robin Hood; brought forth the usual anti-mental in starting on their return generous to the poor, kindly by jamboree criticisms alleging that from the Jambores.
from Singapore. nature, and a "square shooter." Scouts attending them lose interest Four are still keenly interestad He is forty, and the lower part in Scouting and drop out of the and are as active as their employ of his Italian face, especially the Movement soon after returning ment permits.
Jaw, strongly recalls Mussolini. home. The Provincial Headquar Two are temporarily inactive but In the beer racket his word is ters of the Ontario Boy Beonts in are ready to join in, again as soon Law. He lives in a luxurious Canada have just completed. as circumstances permit, apartment equipped with Louis survey which shows conclusively
Only six of the boys have drop- generous to the poor, kindly by that Jamborees are an encourage ped out of the Movement for XIV furniture, has expensive ment and Inspiration to the boys various reasons. pictures, many good books, and who attend them. reads them.
Notaillim, from London.
C. 0. CLARKE,
Manager. Hong Kong, April 28, 1982
The following unclälvised The Scoutmasters were unkni- gram is lying at the offics mous in their opinion that particl- the Great Northern
(Limited)
Spitale is a great admirer of tarle at the World Jamboree In Broadened the views of their repre- Company
Fifty-six Scouts represented Onation in the Jamboreshad
Lindbergh, and wants to help be- England in 1929. A questionnaire
cause he is an American and sent to the Scoutmasters of the qualities of leadership in many of
sentatives and had developed mark:
father, will pay my own ex Groups from which these fifty fix them. They were of the opinion Jobicum,from.
following Information ADA
penses,” he says, "and accept no reward. If we find the Idd I shall boys were taken brought forth the that the results of the Birkenhead | Jambores fully- Justify participa. be more than repaid.. To which Firmss the loyal Bite responds af DNA Ninstans of the Beonts are now tion in the next Jamboree at Buda?
tive Scoutmastera.
post in 1938.
goes with me
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