A KIDNAPPING
FOLLOWING A RANSOM PIGEON
NEW YORK, May 22
Descriptions given by the blind-fold-ed Victim led, to the arrest of 10 men and two women in connection with the kidnapping of Dr James Parker. James Betson, the leader of the abductors, was a former detective, Ku Klux Klan leader, and politician. Parker was kidnapped on March 14. but the police so hotly pursued the gang that they released him without ransom on* April 7. Although he was blindfolded he gave such an accurate account of his kidnappers that they were arrested, three confessing. The abductors of Julian Castro son; a boy with a cage containing a carrier pigeon, a nqtp demanding ransom being attached >to .the bird’s leg. Police in an awoplaftqsthen followed the pigeon and locked the abductors’ head quarters, capturing,the entire band.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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135A KIDNAPPING Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 3
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