BOY KIDNAPPED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23515, 1 June 1938, Page 10

BOY KIDNAPPED

ANOTHER AMERICAN CASE PARENTS RECEIVE RANSOM DEMAND SEVENTH VICTIM SINCE 1932 (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PRINCETOWN (Florida). May 31. (Received May 31, at 9.20 p.m.) A few hours before G-men rushed to New Rochelle to renew the hunt for the kidnapper .and murderer of Peter Levine, James Cash, the Si-year-old son of Mr J. B. Cash, owner of chain petrol stations, was kidnapped from his home here. He is the seventh kidnapping victim since 1932. The child disappeared while his mother was at a nearby petrol station helping her husband to count the day’s receipts. Mr and Mrs Cash found two notes demanding a ransom of 10,000 dollars. One note contained a direction to a place where contact with the kidnappers could be made. Mr Cash, who is in a frantic state, is at present attempting to establish contact. .A plane-load of special agents arrived from Washington, but they are not interfering in the matter. A message published yesterday stated that the body of Peter Levine, aged 12, after three months’ hunt following one of the nation’s unsolved major" kidnappings, was found on the rocky seashore near his home at New Rochelle. The torso was trussed by wire and the head, feet and one arm were missing. Levine’s father had made several fruitless attempts to make contact with the kidnappers and to pay a ransom of 60,000 dollars.