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Show BOLD PLAN TOEIDNAF Alleged, Scheme to Hold : "Young Rockefeller for Big Ransom. : CHICAGO. April 9. That an audacious auda-cious scheme to kidnap John D. Rockefeller. Rocke-feller. Jr., and bold him for a ransom of $10,000,000 was part of the plans of the "automatic trio" was admitted by Peter Neldemeier in the county Jail. According Accord-ing to the bandit's confession he and Vandine Intended to attend the billionaire's billion-aire's Sunday-school ' class and carry the teacher away to Philadelphia. "The Idea occurred to me when I was in . New York," said Neldemeier. "I stood outside' the .church and thought how., easy 'it would -be to do a piece of business with Rockefeller that would bring us millions of dollars. Instead of the paltry hundreds that we were mak-j mak-j in'g by saloon 'stick-ups.', . Of course, it I would have taken time, but then a man can afford to wait a while for $10,000,000 and we would have to get money, too. "We were going to New York with ' good 'fronts' and going to Join Rockefeller's Rocke-feller's Sunday-school class. I ain't much on religion and never was, but I would have made a good scholar with all that money in sight. When we got a good chance we were going to gr.ab the teacher and put him In a cab.' . "I had a' house picked out down nea the docks on the river, where we would have kept Rockefeller until some of his folks handed out that $10,000,000, which would have been pretty quick." '.' |