CHILD VICTIM
RANSOM DEMANDED ANOTHER KIDNAPPING CRIME IN FLORIDA EFFORTS BiY FATHER By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received May 31, 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 31 A few hours before G-men rushed to New Rochelle to renew the hunt for the kidnapper and murderer of Peter Levine, aged 12, whose body was found yesterday, the five and a-half-year-old son of Mr. J. B. Cash, owner of a chain of petrol stations, was kidnapped from his home in Princetown, Florida. Mr. Cash's child, James, is the seventh victim of kidnappers since 1932. Tho child disappeared while his mother was at a near by filling-station helping her husband to count the day's receipts. Two notes were found by Mrs. Cash, demanding 10,000 dollars (£2500) ransom. One note contained a direction to a meeting-place for contact, which the frantic Mr. Cash is at present attempting to establish. Several special agents arrived by aeroplane from Washington, but are not interfering with Mr. Cash's attempt to make the contact.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23052, 1 June 1938, Page 13
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