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Show MONEY SEEKERS TAKENIIY POLICE THREE BOYS WHO DEMANDED MONEY OF JACOB FRANKS ARE CAUGHT Chicago Police Believe That Flood of Letters Threatening to Kld-Inap Kld-Inap Will Now Come to End Chicago. The police believe thai the arrest of three boys, who have confessed to sending a letter demanding demand-ing ransome to Jacob Franks, father of Robert Franks, 14, who was recently re-cently kidnapped and slain, will put an end to a flood of threatening letters let-ters received since the Franks murder mur-der by several wealthy Chicagoans. One of the boys arrested after he and his companion has rushed to open a decoy package placed in an empty lot, told of the plan to extort $8000 from Mr. Franks in the belief be-lief that he would be so upset over his son's death that he would prove an easy victim. They threatened Josephine Jo-sephine Franks' life. None of the three arrested is more than 18 years old. Several women wealthy and prominent prom-inent in south side social circles were called to the state's attorney's office for questioning in connection with the class in orinthology conducted conduct-ed by Nathan Leopold Jr., who, with Richard Loeb, had confessed to the kidnapping and slaying of Robert Franks. Three other boys, the oldest 16 years, were arrested after attempting to extort $50 from John Borner, a contractor, to whom they admitted sending a threatening letter similar to that sent Mr. Franks and other wealthy Chicagoans. The boys, Edward Krug, his brother, broth-er, Henry, and Elmert Olson, were seized when they took a decoy package pack-age left by Borner at a place specified speci-fied by them for the delivery of the money demanded. They told detectives detec-tives they expected to get "some easy money." |