TO KIDNAP MARY
CONSPIRATORS CONVICTED PLOT NIPPED IN THE BUD. Reuter's Telegram. (Reoeived August 14, 10.20 p.m.) LOS ANGELES, August i 3. Claude Holcorae and 0. Z. Stephens were convicted by a Superior Court of conspiring to kidnap Mary Pickford and hold her for a ransom of' 200,000 dollars. A third defendant was acquitted. The men were arrested last May, after what the police declare a Series of conferences, at which the kidnapping of a film celebrity, had been field. Mary Pickford was agreed upon, because she had 200,000 dollars in her own name. Before their plans matured the men were arrested. Sentence was deferred.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12217, 15 August 1925, Page 4
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105TO KIDNAP MARY New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12217, 15 August 1925, Page 4
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