CHILD KIDNAPPED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 7

CHILD KIDNAPPED

SEVENTH VIC™ IN U.S.A. SINCE 1932 DEMAND FOR TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AUTHORITIES APPARENTLY HELPLESS By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. PRINCETOWN (Florida). May 31. A few hours before G-men rushed to New -Rochelle to renew the hunt for the Levine kidnapper and murderer. James, the 51-year-old son of Mr J. B. Cash, own&r 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 to count the day’s receipts. Mr and Mrs Cash found two notes demanding 10,000 dollars ransom. One contained a direction to a meetingplace for the contact, which Mr Cash, who is frantic, is at present attempting to establish. A plane-load of special agents arrived from Washington, but they are not interfering in the matter. The body of Peter Levine, 12-year-old son of a wealthy attorney, who had been missing since February 24, was found on Sunday on the seashore near his home in New Rochelle. The discovery of the body, from which the head, feet and one arm were missing, was the sequel to a three-months’ hunt following one of the United States major- unsolved kidnappings. The boy’s father had made several fruitless attempts to get into contact with the kidnappers and pay the 60,000 dollars ransom demanded. CONTACT MADE PAYMENT OF THE RANSOM ASSUMED. FATHER HOPING FOR RETURN OF CHILD. (Recd This Day, 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 31. Mr Cash disclosed that he had successfully made contact with the abductors and confidently predicted the child’s return shortly. It is presumed that he paid over the ransom money, although he refused to confirm or deny a report that contact was made by motor, after the abductors had riarrowly escaped capture when they hurled a note attached to a rock through a window into the midst of G-men assembled at the Cash home. The agents ran out and heard a fugitive crashing through bushes in the darkness, but were unable to overtake him. The note set a second rendezvous, explaining that the kidnappers, were, unable to keep the first owing to the presence of the G-men.