KIDNAPPERS BAULKED
BOY HELD TO RANSOM
CHICAGO, September 19
A gang of criminals failed to bargain with the authorities for immunity from prosecution, and thereupon released from a motor-car Willie Ranieri. the 10-year-old son of a wealthy Italian contractor. The lad had been held for £3OOO ransom for two weeks. The ransom was not paid, but the captors inflicted no injury on the boy. Three of the six abductors were in custody, and the police began a thorough search for their accomplices. It was a race to prevent them carryingout their threat to kill the boy and send his head to his parents. The first demand for ransom fixed tho price at £12,000, but being unsuccessful in their attempt to extort that sunt, the abductors reduced their claim to £3OOO.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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130KIDNAPPERS BAULKED Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1928, Page 9
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