EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION PLOT.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 147, 25 June 1881, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION PLOT.

The city of New York was thrown into an excited state early in April by a frustrated plot to abduct a child as a means of extorting monoy. The family of Mr. Louis Strasburgor, a wealthy jeweller, received (states Tho Times Philadelphia correspondent) during several weeks letters threatening to abduct his daughter Rosa, aged 11, if 60,000d0l were not paid. An attempt was made to abduct her, but failed, and the case was placed in the hands of the detective force. The conspirators proposed that the governess should appear in a certain street, walking over a specified rou'ie, with the money in an envelope, dropping it wh<m a pistol was fired. 'Ihis was tried several times, but no pistol wa3 fired. Finally, on Thursday (17th April), a letter came ordering this to be done again immediately. The governess started with an envelope containing a blank paper, and walking, as instructed, along Sixty-first-street towards Fifth Avenue. A detective, by a circuitous route, entered Madison Avenue, next Sixty-first-street, as the governess came along. A pistol-shot was fired ; tho governess dropped tho envelope, and a man picked it up. The detective rushed after him, and a scuffle ensued, during which the detective's pistol went off, as he avers, accidentally. The ball entered the man's eye, instantly killing him. The accomplice who fired tho pistol was afterwards captured. Other arrests have now been made. The inculpated parties aro all Germans, who came from Europe in October by the steamer with Mr. Strasburger's family, when the plot was formed. Full disclosurea have been made, and the apartment where the child was to have been hidden has been discovered, aB also has been the fact that passages to Europe for the chief parties had been engaged. This case resembles the Charlie Ross abduction case so much that it attracts general attention.