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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933,
KIDNAPPING NOW AN INDUSTRY BOOTLEGGERS TURN TO
"SNATCHING'
RANSOMS RISING STEADILY
(By Harrison Brown.)
New York. The sums demanded as ransoms
As Prohibition wanes in Ameri-bave risen steadily as the industry Albert there was an amusingca and State after State votes for has progressed. Lindbergh war sequel.
repeal, the machinery of the gang tricked into handing over £10,000, The commander of a passing ater is being adapted from the im-even though his baby was murder- ofjed, but the list of recent abduction destroyer, not satisfied with the portation way in which the Royal yacht was whisky to the more open explora- cases shows that the kidnappers being handled, jokingly signalled tion of the wealthy by means of are now aiming at "six-figure vic-))
tims".. Other cases which have
and
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a few lessons fa steering. The In every State new measures are made front page headlines lately jester received a rude shock when being sought with which to deal include those of August Luer, the reply came back: "Excuse mis-with the problem, President Roo-Illinois banker, and William Iam. takes. Out of practice-Edward." selvelt and the head of his "Brainma, a Milwaukee brewer.
Trust," Professor Moley, are dis- Tortured For Vengeance.
or. One of the most abominable of Lord Crewe's Gift To Cambridge cussing plans for a national
|ganisation to fight kidnappers. recent examples is not a "profes- The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cam-
All over the vast country peoplesional" case of ransom bridge, which has just received of all ages are being abducted and perently one of spite or vengence. from Lord Crewe the gift of his
held to rannoin. Brigands inj A prominent Minneapolis physician manuscript of Keats's Ode to a
China, and other parts where was seized and tortured in an at- Nightingale, has been exceptionally police are scarce or unknown, have tempt to make him operate illegally
fortunate in recent years.
but ap-
Since Mr. Briseley Marley left it practised the same art from time on another doctor. The intended £80,000 and his magnificent art immemorial but it has been left to victim of the operation had also collection in 1912, it has had the gangsters of the United States been abducted, snot through the ear £100,000 from the Courtauld family to develop kidnapping Into a four- and beaten until half' dead.
Finally the latter was found ly and the whole of the late Mr. Ishing business in thickly populat-
ing by the roadside by a woman. Leverton Harris's collection of paint-led districts.
Half conscious, the doctor thought |ings and majolica.
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Two pages of America's most
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ransom
A fragment of only 22 lines from sedate newspaper were recently de- his torturers had returned and gas- one of Keats's less famous poems voted to accounts of new kidnapped out "Go ahead and finish me." The other doctor, who had refused in his first book fetched £3,400 in ninge and reports on the situation New York
to carry out the kidnappers' ins- some years ago. This regarding those of past weeks,
signed Copy of So appalling has the situation tructions to operate, was drugged "Endymion" presented to Leigh become that the Chairman of a land left in a car on a level cross- The China Mail has got absolute independence Hunt reached £2,400 in the sale of Senate Committee investigatinging at night. The car was struck
are worthless. Britain has had Lord Rosebery's library.
racketeering has just estimated they a train and hurled into a ditch her lesson. If the Free State: The present manuscript was on annual economic waste of the sys
but its occupant, though still drug- Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 4, 1933. goes out of the British Empire it view two years ago in the museum tem at nearly three thousand mil-ged, was not killed.
must go out in fact and in deed at Hampstead on the site of the lion pounds. as well as in name, and the Free garden where Keats wrote his ode. Free State Crisis. State Irishman will become an alien enjoying an alien's privilege The proposal for a fusion of and no more. The flagrant in- President De Valera's political wantonness of such a denoue- absurdity, and opponents in the Irish Free Statement are self-evident. One has “My dear, why do you always is a sound one, and the "National only to consider the unalterable call your mother the mater'?" Guard" would gain in prestige geographical situation of the two "Because she managed to find and appeal if the various Nation- countries, their almost equally husbands for all my seven sisters.” alist groups combine. The situa-unalterable rekktive economic Mr. positions, and the innumerable
That Is Too Bad tion just now is critical. De Valera's' extreme nervousness ties created between individuals is shown by his creation of a new and families. Both would lose, body in India that he is coming armed police force and by such but immeasurably the greater bome to marry the most beautiful pin-pricking devices as depriving loss would be that of the Free girl in the world.
Edna: Too bad, darling,
after [State. So long as Mr. De Valera) prominent members of the Opis the choice of the Free State being engaged to you for such position of their revolvers. Even electorate that supreme act of long time! if Mr. De Valera holds his hand, nationalist madness may be per- the LR.A. are threatening that petrated to satisfy the crazy HISTORY REWRITTEN. · they will not hold theirs, for the obsessions of a fanatic and the King Richard, absent-minded ass, success of the "Blue Shirt" move black hatreds of the LR.A
ment is a direct menace to the: baleful influence which they exer- cise in the little towns and vill- ages of the South and West: That
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It is admitted by the palice that numbers of abductions take place Kidnappers Rule Roost.
of which nothing is ever heard. The kidnapping business is In Either the victims are held for the hands of men who
not smaller
and terrorised merely kings of the underwood but about "squealing," or else they be
to the underworld and ara who, as bootleggers, have had long years of experience in organising neither able nor willing to apply crime.
to the police. One gangster. At present the kidnappers arecently boatsted that "the public
most knows nothing of for the underworld is still better snatchings."
than the organised
"over-world."
Fear For Children. The number of those who live in In the long run it seems probable that their activities May bring dread of being kidnapped them. America nearer to freedom from selves is far exceeded by those who
zany are in perpetual anxiety for its present subjection to
safety of their children. There There are degrees of unpopula. are scores of young children whose rity of crime. In fact the impoa whole lives may become distorted sibility of suppressing bootlegging by the unnatural life which ther was due to the paradox that that are forced to lead:
Many are prepetual prisoners, particular infringement of the law
Įnever moving out except under the was not unpopular at all.
The kidnapper, on the other sort of secret guard which is 18- hand, has no friends, although it ually provided for kings and pre- is also true that it is difficult to sidents. One banker's son is rush. excite public opinion as a whole ed from the railway station to his against him, for the simple reason parents' roof apartment on a sky- that most people feel themselves scraper, and not allowed to leave too poor ever to have reason to the apartmext again until · the
family leaves New York
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sters.
fear him.
the
cation of the Law. Several fe DRAMATIC STRUGGLE
ON EXPRESS.
Lunatic Attacks Two Warders.
Forgot to filt his car with gas. He therefore shouted, until hoarse, A Physicist's Dream. A horse, my kingdom for a horse!”
Professor Robert Millikan has Last Week's Prize Misprint. la collision between the rival so much concern for the cosmos "The magistrate declared that forces is inescapable sooner or that he could hardly be expected to he would have liked to have helped later seems certain, even though take an interest in this infinitest-the man, but he was on the bench it still remains generally true mal planet's affairs. But a recent merely to dispense with justice." that Ireland is a country where address of his shows that, after
The fantastic length to which Their Concern. the expected rarely happens. all, his dominant interest is in
the situation has already gone 16 Kind Gentleman (to little boy nat wholly due to laxity in appli- The De Valera regime has human affairs. He does not pose brought nothing but heavy eco-even a physicist "should be able to worms sonny.
as an authority in government, but eating apple); Look out for the nomic loss and political discredit zee general principles," and the
sentences and many. other long Little Boy: When I eat an apple to the Free State. How or when general principle which he thinks the worms have to look out for given to
term imprisonments have been it is to be ended no one clearly he sees is this: if we wish to per- themselves.
convicted kidnapperz. sees. But end it must if the petuate a strong, self-reliant peo-
The difficulties lie partly in the reluctance of victims to inform or country is to be saved from ruin. ple, we should leave to private in- It is in these desperate conditions itiative everything that it can do
co-operate with the police, and partly also in the sovereignty of that Mr. De Valera has fallen as well or better than government,
the different States. This neces back upon his favourite devicé off and let government content itself. diverting attention by striking in the field of industry with acting
Mules injure more persons in the sitates a slow process of extradi-
· Cosenza, Italy, A grim life-and-death struggle . at what still remains of the Bri- through is laws and its supervision United States every year than air- tion when dealing with criminals who cross from one State to an
İbetween a homicidal manise and two -- tish connection. He calculates, as a check, to private industry's ex- Places.
Icther.
warders in a second class compart." apparently, that British annoy-ploitation and greed." In cosmic
Brazil has begun the production
This antiquated method of deal- ance will find an
ment, while the train rocked and affairs the professor is an optimist of a carbon paper at a factory in ing with modern crime will pro swayed over the points at 60 miles outlet in a demand for further retaliatory He contends that the universe le
bably be given its death blow by hour, was related when measures which would enable tar space. And he has as hope.
being "wound up out of interstel-Sao Paulo.
the reaction to the present epide- Naples-Reggio express arrived here. him again to beat up anti-British fal view of man's deating. For convert a bridge lamp into a violet colution
An adapter has been invented to mic. Federal action is the only
Francesco d'Angela, a dangerous sentiment. The manoeuvre is the the first time in history mankind,
Jumatic, was being taken to the age-old resort: of unscrupulous
ray lamp.
America's great" cities have Nocera Asylum. Leaping to his feet doubled their police forces in re-suddenly, be attacked the two politicians in trouble at home in the Western World at any rate, creating difficulties outside their faces a century in which It can
Europe has nearly 17,000 motion cent years, but crime has increas- warders, who were accompanying know that its physical wants "can
reproduction.
Facts You Did Not Know.
BQTH SERIOUSLY ́ ́ INJURED,
borders in the hope of distract all be more than met," and that it Picture theatres wired for sound fed twice as much na the police. In him, with bottles.
Personal Pars.
the
part at least this is due to the cor- He smashed a bottle over the head ruption of local police forces and of one of them, almost blinding him, to the enormous influence of boot-and then attacked the next one. leggers in municipal politics
A fierce fight resulted in the warder being overpowered and seriously injured, but before, being" the overwhelmed he succeeded in pulling Undbergh baby in 1932 which the communication, cord. As the
***Sex Figure”! Victims.
It was the kidnapping of
ing attention from their domes- tic failure. Its success depends has greater possibility of develop- on their people losing their heads.ing its intellectual, moral and es- But people will certainly not be thetic nature glorious life in rattled by these three new Bills, Prospect that may be shared not
Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chan of which the only one of real, as by the few standing on the backs cellor of the University of Hong apart from technical significance of the many, as in Grasce," but is that which proposes to abolish by the many themselves. This isng, was the colostrum Europe
arriving in the Colony the right of appeal from the the physicist's dream. Life In Free State Courts to the Privy seen reinvigorating itself out of on the s.s. Conte Verde, yesterday. boosted the industry. Many poo-train stopped passengers from Biber Me Fal Sople thought at the time that that compartments, ran along the cor Council. Feeling in Britain has free spaces of bring, to borrow & Prof. 1. W. Gerrard, 0.B.E. head tragic case would lead to a drastic ridor to see what had happened. “ come to this that if the Free figure from his cosmos. There of the Medical Faculty of the clean-up. The fact that the re- They found d'Angelo, * mariing State is bent on breaking the last are, however, forces that can stay University of Hong Kong, arrived verse happened is perhaps due to with murderous frenzy, brandishing few constitutional links, however the realization of the dream. In the Colony from Europe on the the precedent; set, in desperation, the neck of a broken bottle over the Islender, it must have its way. There is International war which 8.8, Conte Verde, yesterday.
by Colonel Lindbergh in using go injured warders. When he saw the Mr. De Valera has said repeated is international madness.” And w
between from the press/world other passengers, he gave a shout
ly that he hopes to see the day there is the possible, break-down Prof. G. T, Byrne, of the Arts his attempt to
contact of fury and rushed at them, but when the independence of the of our own chancter, through too Faculty and Chemistry, at the with the abductors. The police was tackled and overwhelmed by an, Free State is declared His pro- much pate alls- grester peril University of Hong Kong, returned were held at arm's length. The officer of the Fascist MiltL, testations that he is ready to be the in the braik-down of atoms to the Colony on the 8.8. Conte same thing has happened in most. He was handed over to the sincerely › friendly as soon as he in the physical worl
Verde, from Europe,
of the chief cases since that time, at the next station/Repter,
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