GRIM MAN-HUNT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 8

GRIM MAN-HUNT

SEARCH FOR KIDNAPPERS IN FLORIDA NO RETURN OF ABDUCTED CHILD. CARPENTER DETAINED FOR INQUIRIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright.) (Recd This Day, 12.55 p.m.) PRINCETOWN, June 1. Abandoning hope of the safe return of Jimmy Cash, there being no word from the kidnappers for thirty hours, hundreds of citizens undertook a grim man-hunt in posses. G-men introduced a dramatic touch into the proceedings when they seized M. F. Braxton, a carpenter who was waiting to be sworn in one posse, and declined to give information regarding the step other than that Braxton was being questioned.

James, the s|-year-old son of Mr J. B. Cash, owner of a chain of petrol stations at Princetown, Florida, was kidnapped from his home. 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 meeting-place.

It was reported also that a planeload of special agents had arrived from Washington, and later that Mr Cash had made contact with the kidnappers and paid the ransom demanded.