KIDNAPPING CASE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 14, 17 January 1936, Page 5

KIDNAPPING CASE

BABY'S LUBE THREATENED. Tui«? drama in which two alleg'd ■ • ; snatches threatened the life of • ■ •’.( rap.i ? when brought to bay. and t alter wards menaced themselves ' ■ a howling mob. recently brought to I : ' ♦•ml a kidnapping sensation that • : .rilled the city of Marseilles, says tae ' I’r-lv Express. X ;-r a hue and cry lasting five days . •.i- po|i,-p resto ed his parents eign- | >■ ' month-olfi < laud? Malmejac, the i '.•I! of Dr. Malmejac. and arrested ;< • mother ami son who are alleged to have ' neld it hr in hiding. Ilin r-Hip!? are Mme. Rolland, aged i ami her son, Gilbert, aged 21. who : in a villa at Beaumont, a suburb I >; Marseilles. Th? hunt threw th? citv j int<» a fpvpr of excitement after the | ’ baby was stolen from under the very i . y... of his young nurse in t’hannt ’ • I’a’k by an old woman who ’’walked : I v it'n a limp. ’ ’ I Immediately afterwards th? father ; (received a badlv written letter on cheap I yellow paper, saying: ' | • • fk»n't b? afraid for thp fat? of voyr ' ■ i-hild. H? will b? returned safe and j sound t« you it you agree to send th* I . s uni nf £7OO. [• |po conditions are ac- | cepted, the father nf the child must in- i '•rt the following announcement (that ir.g t pa the £’<M* in the I ' L’ctit Mars illrii- - Money will be ‘ • I’<<• !>• FPsentment against the nut . rage r?a' lt?d a pitch of fury while day ' .after day the search for th? little one j i continued. Appeals for the return of] i their son were made bv th? harass?.! i ! par? its t’rough all F;-m-h radio sta- ' •h? father \ message ran: ‘ To the , - ’ •' ' ■ ■ son: £7OO will be paid l to you without quest iotj if vou return j< laud? to hi* parents.” Th? mother s j appeal gave spe.-iai instrm-tions as to . how her son should be f?d. and menrioned that bananas should be added to I • A schematic questioning of milkmen j . said to havp |?d two inspectors of ' j t ;? bur:*t - Nationale to th? Rollands’ ; i konse Beaumont. Bursting into a ' ,ra?k '••■»(! ih?y >:tw the baby lying on :t b?d and beside it the mother and sou. A* th'-v entered the room th? old • noma? 'patched up a stick and bra i- ■ '< head, while th? man drew an automatic pistol and I i pointed it at the child. i ’’lf ;ou touch urn I shall shoot,” he * , pxclniuio.b With great presence of i ! mind on? of the officer stold him, “ Let !m? have the child safe and nothing • . will happen to vou Rolland hesi- j tried, ami th? next moment th? Surete | | men seized th? roupl?. There was a fior.-P struggle, which ended in th? man j I being overpowered and handcuffed. His | I mother was taken with him tn police j • headquarters, wiier? sh? stoutly dp I | dared that the child was not the kid- ■ j napped baby. ; J>r. Malmerja'-. who had been sent « tor. then arrived, arid as soon as *h? I . little one caught sight of him lie ! ; gurgled with joy and raised his tinv , farms. Th? father’s demonstration of ; i joy after the agony of doubt about his :-hild’s fate touched the onlooker's j : keenly. I nder questioning, the couple even- ■ tually admitted that they had kid- 'j napped the baby to obtain the £7Oll as ransom. Th? news that the child was «afe spread like wildfire, and while they were under examination a great crowd surged outside the police station. shouting for vengeance against the kidnaoners.