SEVENTH VICTIM OF KIDNAPPERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21051, 1 June 1938, Page 9

SEVENTH VICTIM OF KIDNAPPERS

Reply to Activities of G Men ANOTHER YOUTH MISSING Sequel to Earlier Outrage United Press Association—By Electric T elegraph—Copyright (Received May 31, 9.20 p.m.) PRINCETOWN (Florida), May 31. A few hours before the G-Men rushed to New Rochelle to renew the hunt for the Levine kidnapper and murdered, James, the five and a-half year old son of J. B. Cash, owner of a chain of 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 count the day’s receipts. Mr and Mrs Cash found two notes demanding 10,000 dollars ransom. One contained a direction to a meeting place for contact, which Cash, who is frantic, is at present attempting to establish. A plane-load of special agents has arrived from Washington but are nut interfering in the matter. A message from New Rochelle published yesterday said that the body cf Peter Levine, for which the police hunted for three months after one of the nation’s major unsolved kidnappings, had been found on a rocky seashore near his home. 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 to pay the ransom of 60.000 dollars which was demanded. Philip Levine, aged 12, son of a wealthy New York attorney, was kidnapped on February 24. In response to the father’s request neither local nor Federal authorities participated in the case, in order to permit an attempt to pay the ransom of 60,000 dollars, to obtain the boy’s release. Mr Levine, through the press and radio, pleaded with the kidnappers not to harm his son. He said the. ransom was ready and named an intermediary. He urged the kidnappers to get into touch with him immediately.