PENALTY OF FAME
MARY PICKFORD THE KIDNAPPING PLOT. Press Association—By Telegraph-^Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, August 13. Telegrams from Los Angeles say that Claude Holcoine and C. Stephens wire convicted by the Superior Court of conspiring to kidnap Mary Pickford and hold her for a ransom of 200,000 dollars. The third defendant was acquitted. . , . _ r The men were arrested last May. After what the police declare was a series of conferences to discuss the kidnapping of a film celebrity, Mary Pickford was agreed upon because she had 200,000 dollars in her own name. Before the plans matured the men were arrested. Sentence was deferred. Router.
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Evening Star, Issue 19020, 15 August 1925, Page 4
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103PENALTY OF FAME Evening Star, Issue 19020, 15 August 1925, Page 4
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