KIDNAP "RACKET."
PIGEON AND POLICE 'PLANE
NEW YORK, May 12.
Descriptions given by the blind-folded victim led to the arrest of 10 men and two women in connection with the kidnappin"- of Dr. Jamee Parker. James Betson, the leader of the abductors, was a former detective, Ku Klux Klan leader, and politician. Parker was kidnapped on March 14, but the police so hotly pursued the gang that they released him without ransom on April 7. Although he was blindfolded, he gave such an accurate account of his kidnappers that they were arrested, three confessing.
The abductors of Julian Caetro sent a boy with a cage containing a carrier pigeon, a note demanding ransom being attached to the bird's leg. Police in an aeroplane then followed the pigeon and located the abductors' headquarters, capturing the entire band.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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