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Show $50,000 ROSS RANSOM PAID CHICAGO. Oct 1 WV Federal agtnta announced today a tM.000 ranaom had fceaa paid for tha release re-lease of kidnaped Char lee B. Rosa, but tha abductors failed to free their aged victim. Tha announcement waa made attar at-tar tha deadline Vet for hie return I o'clock thla morning brought no word of tha retired manufacturera whereabouta. ilevefftmeni ae.ale and atata'a attorney's at-torney's police awung Into an in-tenaive in-tenaive hunt for tha snatch gang. Failure to fret Roaa after 24 day! of captivity. confirmed theories the family had been doublecroaaed and Incraaaed feara he had died in the handa of hit captora. Appeal Disregarded D. M. Ladd. chief of the Chicago bureau of tha Justice departments bureau of Investigation, aaid the 1.10.000 ranaom constated of billa of 10, flO and 130 denomlnationa. Tht liat of currency, aent to banka, police atationa and government of-flcea of-flcea throughout tha nation, bore tha data October (. Thla Indicated tha ranaom had been turned over to tha anatchera on or before that time. "Tha payment of thla ranaom waa handled entirely by tht family of Mr. Roaa," aaid Ladd. "Wt are advised ad-vised the family, upon payment of tht money, waited for a reaaonablc period and then made a final appeal ap-peal to tha kidnapera for releaaa of Mr. Roaa." Otiaena' Aid Asked - He referred to tht public plea made by Mrs. Roaa laat Sunday. She begged for hia freedom and warned the snatch gang that if they failed to liberate him by a a. m. Tueaday aha would aak all law enforcement agencies to launch a quarterleaa hunt for tha "heartleaa lndividuala" who carried off her 73-year-old hue-band. hue-band. Citixena throughout tha nation were aaked to aid tha aearch by watching for tha ranaom billa. Mra. Roaa, 111 and under a phyal-clan'a phyal-clan'a care, was inconaolable. Throughout her long vigil aha haa been haunted by tha fear her husband hus-band suffering from high blood pressure and a heart ailment had auccumbed to ahock. |