VICIOUS CRIMES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 11

VICIOUS CRIMES.

FOUR MEN CHARGED. " I KIDNAPPING AND MURDER. I G-MEN END LONG SEARCH. VFW YORK. November 2. ' Four men. accused by Mr. Edgar GL Hoover, chief G-man, of seven of Um i most vicious crimes in recent American [ history, were arrested after a ten-month i search by G-men. Most outstanding of the crime* was ■ the kidnapping and murder of Arthur t Fried, who was abducted last December r after being held for four days in a ; Lower East Side hide-out. The four arrested are Joseph Sacoda, 3 alias "Steve," now in Sing Sing Prison i for violating his parole; Demetrius Gula, • "Metro"; William Jacknis, alias *Villie Jackson; and John alias Murphy. . c Sacoda, accused of being the ringleader, is said to have been the man who shot Fried through the head when the £40.000 ransom which the fan'' demanded was not delivered. About midnight o" December 4. Fried. manager for a sand and gravel panv, was driving to li i ~ b.>m<> I'-ir New York. He was forced from the road bv a car driven bv Sa>''"!a and j< iula. I Next morning they forced Fried j write to his family a-king fur ihe rane i'om. Long after Fried was murdered _11 ho kidnapper- attempted to collect tb& Imonev —but failed. . J Next two youth-, Norman Milter and Sidney L/ciirer. were kidnapped De f'l'iiev SSg 1 put in a re^ ,se j described hearing -: The youths later clicking of 'jnoises like street vendor*' cries. bi,)i^ d J L?er: "In working out thm I Said Mr. Hoover not e that our ■lease it is ehU rche*. TOO biland *>0 meeting