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Show Two Kidnapers Foiled in Raid to Snatch Infant HIGH OFFICIAL'S SOU IS TARGET OF ABDUCTORS Housekeeper Battles . Two Assailants at Home PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 21 (UP) Two men, at least one of them armed, threatened a housekeeper's life and tore off her skirt today in an unsuccessful unsuccess-ful attempt to kidnap the infant in-fant son of Rhode Island's secretary sec-retary of state. The object of the would-be abductors ab-ductors was lt-menth-old John Cappelll, one of the seven children chil-dren of Secretary of State Louis W. Cappelll. The baby, at the time, chanced to be with a nursemaid three-quarters ef a mile from the family's Smith street home In North Providence. The housekeeper. Mrs. Miry Cab-ral, Cab-ral, about 43. was in the ya-d of the Cappelli home when the pair entered en-tered the driveway in a green sedan. Leaps Out Out leaped one of the men, revolver revol-ver In hand, and demanded: Where's the baby?" The housekeeper explained that the infant was not at the house. The men grabbed and threatened her life. They struggled. "Plug her!" cried the confederate from the driver's seat Her assailant did not shoot. They continued to struggle. Mrs. Ctbral screaming hysterically. Her skirt was ripped off as she battled the man. The man at the wheel shouted to the woman that she would be "bumped off unless she produced the infant. Scrambles Into Car The gunman suddenly tore free from the woman's grasp, peered into an empty baby carriage, and scrambled scram-bled Into the sedan. So hysterical was the housekeeper that nearly an hour after the incident inci-dent she had been able to supply state police with only a meager description of the man. While she was struggling with the assailant, her daughter, Louise, 17. was walking with baby John and his sister. Mary, S, three-quarters of a mile from the house. Four other Cappelli children were In school and Mrs. Cappelli was to return later today from a maternity hospital with her seventh child, a daughter born 10 days ago. Received Threats Governor Robert E. Qulnn and ether state officials have received threats recently. The governor's life has been threatened both by telephone tele-phone and letter. Cappelli, a friend of the governor, would not comment op the kidnap attempt or reveal whether he bad received any threats. Fearing s possible reign of terror by kidnapers, s state police guard was ordered at the homes of all Rhode Island public officials this afternoon. Police of West Warwick placed a guard about the home of Governor Qulnn. |