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CHILD'S DISAPPEARANCE FATHER MEETS KIDNAPPERS POLICE ALMOST MAKE ARREST NEW YORK, May 81 It is disclosed that Mr. J. B. Cash, owner of a chain of petrol stations, whose five and a-half-year-old son was kidnapped from his home in Princetown, Florida, paid a ransom of 10,000 dollars (£2500) to the kidnappers at a secluded rendezvous shortly before dawn to-day. Contact was made with the kidnappers after they had narrowly escaped capture when they hurled a note attached to a rock through a window into the midst of G-men assembled in Mr. Cash's home. Agents ran out and heard someone crashing through the bushes in the darkness, but were unable to overtake him.
The note set a second rendezvous, explaining that the kidnappers were unable to keep the first due to the presence of G-men.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23053, 2 June 1938, Page 13
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