KIDNAPPING CRIMES.
Speedy Sentence for Young Man. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 17. In one of the speediest disposals of a kidnapping case since the Federal Government took a hand to eradicate this form of crime, Erward Lickwala, a young emplo3 r ee of the Ford plant at Detroit, was sentenced to ten years in a Federal penitentiary two hours after he made a confession. Lickwala confessed that he had sent a note to Mr Edsel Ford demanding 5000 dollars on penalty of death. When arrested by Federal agents he said, “ I never intended to kill him. I just knew he had plenty of money. I wanted some of it.” In New York, Lewis Esposito, a college student, son of a reputedly wealthy junk and scrap-iron dealer, has been kidnapped, and, it is stated, held for 20,000 dollars’ ransom, although his family refuse to confirm reports. Kentucky officials will ask for the death penalty for the kidnapper of Mrs Stoll, Avhose capture is believed to be only a matter of a short time.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20440, 19 October 1934, Page 1
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