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Show ... THE EVENING HERALD. FIUDAY, EPTEi!EEE 11, 1025.,, -- I ;eaei a. V 7 , 6f ill H Ill f- Astonishing Case of the Honor Students and Their Plan to Kidnap a Famous California Beciuty and So Achieve the t- ... A 4 , "Perfsc: Mm : .; Scientific Crime. Crawford entered the laboratory softly. Baker, tall, lender, with dark, intent eye and astonishing hands, teat Was holding tube " V - light v readyl' he wed. Germal1 - y . e K'm smzw&4 :? $Mm v , - ,mii$:p . v-tf- vitvroNnwnjrTW. a . - fi'i'ilf r if li- vwvv-'i'- t --- -- )i '7 V-'UtA- i VSUI ij v v, - ! i ' wiiW K' 'iAo'tV; Wlti' 411 - VrM4fi- f.A:V$ A ;,ftC..'V.V4..V,jf1f . JJS?5C'i ..AUI S'V.WWli! "?f- -'i . Cln ' - Vl Ti '' S,3L , - .I r- - VA' V VJ,V I0?"? kftor .Y,t,n-v- rrnciBioSfliety Beauty. k dfiliver:M until th.ur-ator- given him read the lUnP weeks before-i- -- Ict-V- , By WEBSTER K. NOLAN. University of California student in the college laboratory late at night and a lonely shadow moving lack and forth across the windows they Hb roactoa emergencies, to the letter by becouiing very5 calm and. -quite expressionless of face. torture, and perhaps final innoculatlon of disease germs.. There only remained the 4 question of the right person to kidnap. Various wealthy women were considered. Finally they settled upon the wife of the copper magnate, said: Daniel C Jackling. Mrs. Jackling is It's Bliss Baker. How hard that boy works I . beautiful and vivacious, a society leader, No wonder he is an honor student, a" senior at sister of Mrs. Rudolph Spreckels, .and one of the - seven Joliffe sisters,' all nineteen, with a scholarship entitling him to a : . year's study .'broadl'ii outstanding figures in the Pacific Coast .. One young man, however, smiled primly as v "four hundred." he crossed the eamptw to joftr iijfnendrHe Slowly an(fwiHrthe greatest Care they Russell Crawford and he, too, was an honor , worked out the details of their enterprise. The typeThere was to be no slip-ustudent, being, at nineteen, a graduate of the University of Ortgon. , , , writer, on which they would write to the Crawford entered laboratory loftly. Jackling demanding that $50,000 in twenty-dBaker, tall, slender, with dark, intent eyes and bills be delivered to a messenger,: would be thrown into Lake Merritt, in astonishing hands was holding a test tube against w the light, v. Oakland. If the money was not forthi''1t's all ready!" he cried,- ; Crawford asked f: coming,, the letter would state, the germs ' . of hdrrible diseases would be injected into . what the tube held. . her blood. Furthermore, they planned to ."GermsJ" answered the student vEnoueh "send the letter to the financier's office to scare a millionaire half to death and bring us AFTER they had kidnaped Mrs. Jackling the price of a trip around the world!" from her home I Bakef ,ilushd with triumph, but Crawford's , Two months went by. "Both boyS face allowed no change. His friend unlocked a . Crawford old twentieth an their and drawer birthday. brought forth passed newspaper. Big headlines and photographs told the story -- was selling vacuum cleaners to make a Baker spent ; Of eJiothcr pair of honor students, Licopqld and ' living for his young wife. Loeb of Chicago. more and mow time In the laboratory at d mother, who had The boys talked excitedly, lingering over the night while his him and his sister to a college town and details of the crime which had shocked rAmerica brought " ' found work In a department store that her chil: . .'.only a few months Tefore. dren might have educational advantages she had ."They were pikers," Baker decided. .'They' wanted to go around, the world too. : But they missed, looked forward to his approaching grad' ,; uation. only asked lor ten thousand dollars and bungled 'The Jacklings were breakfasting early one at that l We will demand fifty thousand and Summer morning In their apartment which ocwon't fail! 'Ours will be the perfect crime." Then they gave themselves to an intensive cupies a floor of the fashionable Hotel St. FranMrs. Jackling ancis. The telephone rang. study of the Nietzschian theories of the "super .' , . 'man," the dominant . male, who should allow . swered. The voice coming over the wire waa sympa nothing to stand between him and success not even Jaw and human life. They evidently conthetic and rather faltering. cluded that cruelty was wholly justified to at"Mrs. Jackling? It ia my unhappy task to ' tain the end they sought advise you that your sister, Mrs. Spreckels, has. The "perfect crime"" they planned involved been hurt in a motor accident on the Pacifio the kidnaping of a wealthy person. This, they Highway. She is in the Mills Memorial Hospital, ' decided, offered the best means to obtain money. at San Mateo, and is asking for you." Murder was not a part of the project They Mrs. Jackling was in a panic of excitement threats to Sand worry. She tried to ask questions, but the WHEN l!vJ- :. - ,r ""t ASQ t"-rJ- ,' ? ; -- , 1 W;; I ;'':',';V'-- rf . " ' . ...ui-- in .n..'M bank-notes- .- U t.u '.r,-- j u ht He r,anrf.f-T-nng- meantinipJ.tackr.nK j . ' ' uj- - received- a' hew cL'i.1 a fM hnnil W- - fir.,1 hp, tint e Nor hud Mrs. Spreckels been in an ac cidint, sji far. as she coU irarn, He "answered., hrr rivpJF . . i ' ' , ' quietly. r', "The call was a mistake. Have aomeon.eome back with you', and' go direct 'to the liotfil. ,'1,'tl jxplain whemXie Yu at dinner,' :' Aid that was the ctmimouplnce endirig pf tfi?" crime. .rO! i millionaire'! part in the ."perfect" the Pacific Highway, however, the tmtcab folW along with the second- car follw(n(. Aa th"?, , rnred a "roadhouse known as "Unclp Tom,J . Tavern, Baker stepped forth anl the' r vihm the driver w.o handlAir him 'he' package that the other ca,r' drew lm Sloncside. ' Three dolectiva reached oirt,artd dragged the' student into the macum, Vhre'lie ' f .promptly collabsed. , He tolcf the whole. story the tf thefin-r- f ect". irlmo ''which had; de'eloped astonisiiiBg imper , r"'U 4l - t s- ;j5t'-..- -' Later,, at 7 6 ' ol Ee dwood City,., the .police ,r- . . " - Above, Bliss Baker, at Right, ituwiell Crawford, Partners in the Plot to Kidnap Mrs. Jackling. wire was dead. . She snatched hex in the procedure that .otherwise Before launching tpon the wild motor ride through San Francisco and over the Skyhrfe Boulevard to San Mateo, thirty miles, down the Peninsula, however, she told bar. husband where she was going. And this proved to be the flaw , , ..In the procedure that otherwise might indeed have turned out to be the "perfect" crime. For, like Leopold and Loeb, the California students had failed ta figure accurate the all important time element ' ixi ,. tea. u Xvnmvn Future Smlffc ires. -. r, T" t ... ..i ..i...-, . . - ' i i t -- 4 hi ,y " - l.ll A 1U. , .' - . -I -- . .'" uooJ ., found Crawford. He wajtJiidlng'fa'tfid'tfo.tta'gC) ,'akero doctor and num-- Vct ne'ingiU.young wue to onng ncr nrst-Dor- n itn M world,.'. ' -- w.-; After thy had been 'put sirtto scpaifiti c'Ila In the San Francisco city proft,,the;,bey de' nied.nil. guilt..' Tliey bad no ;kn,owb;djf!i;Oi.'ai)y . .' ; H' r . . i : plot,',tbcy declared. i ji,,,, . Later, however Baker ponfoeeexl to the police, md both boye expressed ' a sort'df pcloey to - . Jackling, a feUSr wosds of Mmnl' reftrct t'. ' "We, didn't' actually mean to.hu: .Mr.li:L.r ling," tney saia.;' "we omy wanted ni frjDUn BUI a; u Mr. Jackline into civine us the mSm-- ." Anrf. 1 k "L reasoning .along --the. lines of their Nietschiari '1 theories, they e xpected .that all .charges agai.nrt " would be would withdrawn and that tnny' thcrj ilfS'i to sv be allowed go their ways, pursuing (heir stwly ol. criminology ana their pursuit oi super-ma-n hood as sc. forth by the eccentric Uermaa, -- . . s gray-haire- f . behind .'ti,, DDed.-lTwE- . .'''".-.- nf'irint nt H. a tin he t!iatffHcy.cxf!)aiv''l- waa i .arranged' .p:; thft rrp.t to tlif Pl'ft" h.nUr '' ollar . V . . p. i. " . 14 , multi-millionai- re -.- Kvfnci r., pa rr;. T) and the boy, in turn yaVK 7 to a Uxicab driver. As the. cab wheeled avir, aii it went, another tar fell m ' 'r what was happening. Put all hi We this man, who began hig career as a farm lnhorer, "hadi been meeting )iW.l.ffirrf nr. the n . k .. . .. tbomncTffraars y P.d-5-rthert- flg Hf l. ' .. : x the, magnate which he said a man f?rj S toi entire counter-plo- t "h!"h .Trok'in; pressed National Bank and held a moment's inference ' with the cashier. ", ' . have ended differently, At his place of business, 'A 4 ;V an had waited 1 few moments Jackhng.haa Ay. of plot In tlieicw Tl" Recent Photograph Mrs. Daniel C. Jackllng, noted Saa t Q"Hri-- Ti n..llv n.ul ripnrlv lh:it in end of the line i If they h.giv,leff w. into r,-j- . philosopher. .r.; j j "Since we didn't injurs Mrs. Jackling,'" they reasoned, "why should anyone beth.it furthei cbotit it?' Besides, one ff us wishes to nnlsh colloj,--e and the other. is Kkely to ioso his job if t he is detained too long I . ....-The boys eeemed to orrrlook the wicked na 'ture' of their carefully worked-ou- t plpt Psychologists wfto examined thea, we're aston.Ube't at t!eir reactions. And the courts of law aenru faced.the problem of dealing with brillwnt youn minds that had become warped by abnormci i".1' :; niamfcstattons. - f t " V. : -. ' '". ft,- - t - t. ...... , . L Il.-- |