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Show KIDNAPING ATTEMPT IS FOILED Ladder. Chisel Used To Abduct Son of Millionaire. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March 19 (U.R) A kidnaping, similar in some respects to the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was frustrated today when a nursemaid frightened away a man who sought entrance to the nursery in the home of J. Seward Se-ward Johnson. A ladv'er had been propped against the side of the house and a chisel was found at the foot of the ladder. In the Lindbergh kidnaping kid-naping a ladder was used to gain access to the second1 floor nursery and a chisel was found on the ground near the ladder. The nurse aroused a caretaker. He followed the prowler, firing several shots at him. The prowler escaped. Within an hour police detained George Maiden, 518 East 16th St., New York, in a lunchroom in south Plainfiel'-. He was held for questioning. ques-tioning. Johnson is a member of the firm of Johnson and Johnson, manufacturers manufac-turers of hospital and laboratory facilities. This is the third kidnaping attempt at-tempt in this area in the past three weeks. At Riverton, N. J., recently, Claude J. K. Anderson walked into the nursery and found a man holding his baby son. Anderson An-derson grappled with the intruder but he escaped. |