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Show A TRAIL OF BLOOD. I aat week in a courtroom at Clayton, Clay-ton, Mo., Angelo Rosegrant heard a jury pronounce him guilty in connection connec-tion with the kidnaping of Dr. Isaac D. ICHey, a prominent St. Louis specialist, spe-cialist, in 1931, and recommended a sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. This was the first legal conviction in the case, but a long trail of blood has marked the efforts to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice. No less than six persons are dead as a sequel to the crime. Three gangs' ers implicated in the kidnaping were killed by polie?; a negro ne-gro charged with complicity turned state's evidence and was slain by machine ma-chine gun bullets fired from ambush; a woman not connected with the crime was shot during a raid to obtain evidence, evi-dence, and an assistant for the pro-isocution pro-isocution committed suicide, f The success which officers of the law have met lately in running down kidnapers is mo. t encouraging, and should tend to reduce if not entirely eliminate, this particular species of criminality. Their efforts in this direction di-rection should be pressed relentlessly until gangsters are convinced of the fact that kidnaiiing dons not pay. I |