KIDNAPPED CHILD
FATHER PAYS RANSOM EARLY RETURN EXPECTED NEW YORK, May 31. Mr J. B. Cash, owner of a chain of petrol stations, whose five-and-a-half-year-old son, James Cash, was kidnapped from his home at Princetown (Florida) yesterday, confirmed the payment of 10,000 dollars to the kidnappers at a secluded rendezvous shortly before dawn. Earlier Mr Cash disclosed that he had successfully made contact with the abductors and confidentially predicted the child’s return. It was presumed that he paid over the ransom, although he refused to confirm or deny that contact had been made by motor after the abductors narrowly escaped capture when they hurled a note attached to a rock through a window into the midst of assembled G-men. Mr Cash and the home agents ran out and heard a fugitive crashing through the bushes in the darkness, but they 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 11
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