LAD’S BODY FOUND.
VICTIM OF KIDNAPPING. United' Press Association—Copyright.! MONTREAL, May 29. A message from New Rochelle says that the body of Peter Levine, aged 12, for which the police hunted for three months after one of the nation’s major unsolved kidnappings, was found on a rock sea shore near his home. The torso was trussed by wire and the head j feet, and one arm were missing. Levine’s father had made several fruitless attempts to make contact with the kidnappers to pay the ransom of 60,000 dollars which was demanded. Philip Levine, son of a wealthy-New York attorney, was kidnapped on February 24. In response to the father’s request, neither local nor Federal authorities participated in the case, in order to permit an attempt to pay the ransom of 60,000 dollars, to obtain the hoy’s release. Mr Levine, through the press, and by radio, pleaded with the kidnappers not to harm his son. He. said the ransom was ready, and named 'an 'intermediary. He urged the kidnappers to get into touch with him immediately.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 5
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175LAD’S BODY FOUND. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 5
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