SENSATIONAL KIDNAPPING.
GANGSTER SUSPECTED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. TACOMA, May 26. Although by a coded message published in the newspapers the parents of George Jeyerhaeuser, the kidnapped boy, indicated a readiness to pay the ransom, which is now definitely stated to be 200,000 dollars. the child has not been leturned home. Nineteen agents, who hurriedly rushed lie re, are pressing the search for the .kidnappers, independent of the family’s negotiations. The white signal at the window of the Jeyerhaeuser home yesterday was changed to a blue sweater, but the meaning has not been divulged. The police suspect Alvin Karpis, America’s current “Public Enemy No. 1,” as being responsible for the crime. He is known to be in the north-western area and is reported to be short of funds. EXTORTION FRUSTRATED. TACOMA, Alay 26. Federal agents in Los Angeles today thwarted a/i effort by a gang to extort 70,000 dollars from Air Herbert Ivey, a bank president. With an agent posing as Ivey a trap was set and followed by the police, who met the extortionists on a remote section. In an exchange of shots one of the gangsters was seriously injured. The others escaped. One policeman was slightly injured.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12961, 28 May 1935, Page 5
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200SENSATIONAL KIDNAPPING. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12961, 28 May 1935, Page 5
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