Show New Officers a S. S S 'S r 4 iT H. E E. Hemingway t. t Charles L. L Smith KIDNAPERS SEND SENO p PAYMENT A PLAN Copyright 1933 By United Press ST. ST PAUL June 17 The 17 The kidnapers of William Villiam Hamm wealthy brewer contacted William M M. Dunn business manager of Ha Hamm's Hamms s 's brewing company com corn pany at 5 p. p m. m Friday as promised and apparently made arrangements to give him instructions 1 for r payment of the he demanded for Hamm's Hamms re- re lease ease the United Press learned today The traditional phila philanthropy of the Hamm family w was s put aside today for forthe forthe forthe the first time in years It has been Mrs Hamms Hamm's custom to serve sandwiches sandwiches sand sand- and beer to all who applied at ather ather her kitchen door for aid ald Eight men appeared toda today despite the Instead of being given iven handouts they were marched away b by y a police pollee squad Dunn close friend of Hamm and family adviser since the brewer was abducted last Thursday remained at athis athis athis his office seated beside a telephone Young Hamm whose family's fortune fortune fortune for for- tune exceeds Is believed to be held by Verne Sankey gambler and liquor runner who is' is accused of collecting a total of ransom from relatives of Charles Boettcher II If Denver and Haskell Bohn St St. Paul in abductions during 1932 The theory that Sankey was In- In Continued on Pace Vace Two I I I I KIDNAPERS SEND PAYMENT PLAN Continued From Prom Pace Face One was strengthened by the fact that hat the stranger who sent the ransom message told the taxi driver to return it t to a man named Gordon at a downtown hotel if it could not be de de- I livered Gordon Alcorn was Sankey's Sankey partner partner part part- ner in the flight light to the Twin Cities after aHer Boettcher was freed Contents of the note which Dunn received were not made public but butt it t was believed the brewing company executive had been instructed to remain remain remain re re- re- re main in his office today to await furher further fur fur- ther her word It also was learned that a truck of the Hamm Brewing company was being cing held in readiness for use in delivering the ransom The sides of the he truck were open as demanded bythe by bythe bythe the kidnapers in inthe the preliminary in in- TOLD Details of the actual at 1220 p. p m. m Thursday also came to toight light ight It was disclosed that Hamm was snatched away in sight of at least leasta a score of persons gathered at a United Charities office Shortly afterward Hamm was waS observed observed ob ob- ob served in the vicinity of the relief of of- flee fice in an automobile having Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania license plates At least two other men were in the automobile Despite the announcement of ot po po- lice ice that they had withdrawn from the case Herbert J. J Charles secretary of the brewing company left his hi office office of of- fice for the public safety building to demand that all police activity be suspended This it was Indicated was a step taken to assure the kidnapers that Hamms Hamm's friends were striving to make the ransom payment and obtain the young brewers brewer's s release The details as IUS obtained today were as follows Leaving his office at 1215 p p. p m. m Thursday to lunch at home four blocks away Hamm walked out the brewery's front door went half hall a block alock cast on Minnehaha street and turned into lower Cable avenue which is flanked by brewery prop prop- erty AT HOME Scores of brewery workmen were eating their lunches under the trees Some of them saw Hamm nodded to him and he spoke to them Proceeding down the street he reached a flight of stairs leading to his home He climbed to the top safely There presumably he be was met by the kidnapers for he did not enter the door One police automobile squad remained re reo at the home Police Chief Chiei Thomas Dahill said it was to keep curiosity seekers seeker away s I |