AMERICA AGHAST
MORE KIDNAPPINGS THREATENED COUNTRY IN STATE OF TERROR. NEW YORK, April 6. Already electrified by the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, the United States stood aghast to-day as the growing “kidnap racket” threatened some of the most famous parents in the country. In Washington, Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth, widow - of the former (Speaker, had detectives guarding her home after threats had been made to kidnap her young daughter Paulina, unless a sum of ,£3OO was paid to the racketeers. Sir Wilmot Lewis, correspondent of the London “Times,’’ received a letter 'menacing his ison’s safety unless demands subeguently to be made were complied with. Mrs 'Harold Gatty, wife of the' wellknown Australian flier, is travelling with her children from California to Washington under heavy guard, fearing abduction. Jack Dempsey, before leaving New York, for Chicago, hired a detective guard, because he feared abduction for ransom. Ren Lyon and 'his wife, Rebe Daniels, the screen stars, are in practical retirement after kidnappers’ threats against them. The country is in a state ol terror, and is demanding drastic action by Congress against organised violence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1932, Page 8
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183AMERICA AGHAST Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1932, Page 8
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