Show becoming more common by CALEB JOHNSON never before since the world began has the interest of so many persons been ocus sed upon a single individual and that individual a child less than two years old the k kidnapping of charles augustus lindbergh jr from his crip in the country home of 0 his parents the famous tiler flier and anne on tile the slope of So Sou urland mountain near hopewell N J instantly crowded all other news off the front pages ot of the press of the entire world the trouble between C china and japan the vitally important ac activities li vitle I 1 in washington looking toward the revival of business and industry every other kind of 0 news which ordinarily takes first place was relegated to the background the only thing people all over the world wanted to know was has the Lind lindbergh beigh baby been found presidents and kings telegraphed their sympathy to the stricken young parents nurse girls in paris and london mothers Is san francisco and berlin and tokyo every human being charged with responsibility lity tor for a child felt a new tear fear guarded the little ones as they had never been guarded beaole and joined in the world alde ide prayers for the sale safe return ol of the little son of the lone eagle the police resources ol of the nation were mobilized with a single purpose the discovery of the child and the capture and punishment of his in congress a bill to make kidnapping across interstate lines a fed federal eral offense punishable by death was already under consideration I 1 and its discussion took precedence over measures of the greatest economic import there was hardly a place ot of worship in the chols hole world Pio protestant catholic jewish mohammedan or buddhist la in w abich prayers tor for the eaglets ets sate safe return were ore not duling the weekend week end following the light ol 01 0 march first when the little one was taken irom from his crib prid carried down a rough ladder which had been placed at the window ot of his s sleeping leeping room the kian leit left a note demand arg eg ransom money lor for the return ot of the little toy boy for once public sentiment swept aside all considerations ot of cold eluded law and abs abstract tact justice end sp fp afa col Lind berghs announcement hat he would woud pay the money a and nd m make ake no efnor t to capture camtu the it if t they hey bould only bring back his baby boy not even eve the most legalistic mirda minds could find it in their henits to criticize the kidnapping of 0 a little child Is the foulest offense against society and the individual that it Is possible to imagine and its desarie the worst punishment that society has potter t to 0 mete out but of greater importance than the punishment of the criminal Is the life ind anci of the child itself so the L Und berghs felt ard the world agreed with them kidnapping KIdnap ring ing tor for repaid Is a form of crime velch has become increasingly prevalent with the rise of eang gangsters and racketeers acke s L in I 1 recent years T have been b cn many scattered instances of this crime la in the past dast to be aire E arc tul it is la only lately that organized cri criminal angs have made it a source of rev mie ie on en a large scale it Is one of the easiest of all crime to perpetrate whether the victim oe a child or an adult and the detection of f the kidnapping and the rescue of the person kidnapped la is peculiarly pecullar ly liace or of the danger that the criminals it if corn cornered orcil may kill their victim or leave him or her ru r locked up to to s starve vc vall hll chev make e their probably the most famous child kidnapping case of all time certai certainly iAly in the united states before the abduction of little charlie lindbergh lendbergh was the kidnapping of charlie ROSS rosa that occurred h on july 1 1874 and the mystery ot of the little ittle boys fate has never beta been EAU I 1 facto act orlly rily solved charlie ross ROES was lour four years old when he be was taken from his bis prents home in germantown pennsyl v ale by two men his captors were e teen men but never accurately identified they tried to extort ransom irom from the boys parents but were never clever enough to x devise a plan whereby the money they demanded could be exchanged lor for the boy without themselves being caught two burglars who were killed in brooklyn a few ew months later were thought to be the kidnappers kid ot of charlie ross ROES but that was never shown to be definitely than fifty years men have true rue for more turned up fr from 0 in tune time to tune time with alth confessions fes ot of being implicated in the charlie ross boss kidnapping and there have been numerous cases of 0 men who kne knew nothing about their own pasts each believing that he might be the missing charlie ross but no definite news ot of that boys late fate has ever been discovered and no dependable information about his captors has ever been discovered the name of charlie ross boss became a household word and there Is hardly an american over fifty who has not some memory ot of the furore which that crime caused the word 1 I kidnap has its origin in london thieves slang IC kid id Is slang for or c child hild of 0 course and nap Is ai a corruption of nab a slang expression meaning to steal or snatch the word came into use in americas colonial days there was a great demand for labor in the american colonies before the effort was begun to solve the labor pr problem eblem by the importation of negro slaves irom from africa it was the practice to sentence convicted english criminals to deportation to the colonies to work without pay i in practical slavery tor for planters who bedl bid I 1 tor for their services the records of 0 the english courts in the late ia and early are filled with the names or of men and women who had been convicted ot of crime and were thus sent to america I 1 many ot of these names moreover are those i of families now proud of their colonial I 1 descent but the criminal courts did not supply enough labor tor for the american demand so BO organized hands bands ot of crimps in n london took u up p the practice of way laying young boys and selling them tol to unscrupulous shipmasters ship masters who would bring them across the atlantic and sell them at a profit to the colonial planters this practice became known in the slang ot of londona Lon dons underworld as kidnapping in the early law books the word Is used only when a person is sent out ot of his or her native country but it has come to mean any forcible capture and imprisonment of an individual by another without process ot of law most modern kidnappings kidnap pings however have had adults rather than children as their victims according to col robert I 1 isham sl ham randolph Han dolph head of Chi cagos secret six an organized gang ot of kid has recently succeeded in many cases in abducting wealthy men or men with wealthy connections and in extorting huge sums of money in exchange tor for their lives and liberty similar gangs are said to have operated in detroit and elsewhere charles M rosenthal bal a young new york broker was kidnapped by a gang which released him when his mother paid the ransom demand demanded but the tour four members ot of the gang were later captured and sentenced to 00 years each in prison kidnappers Kid IKId have sometimes been let oft off lightly pat crowe who stole young eddie cudahy at omaha in 1900 collected ransom confessed his crime and lived to write a book about it but was acquitted when placed on trial but the record of most kidnapping cases Is the same sad story no trace ot of the child ever found and the identity of the kid never discovered no trace has ever been found of ten year old grace fiudo iwho went away from her new york home in the summer of 1928 with a man known in the neighborhood only as frank parker nor has parker ever been seen in the vicinity since or his real name discovered and that Is only one of thousands of similar cases the earliest record of kidnapping Is found in the bible when josephs brethren sold him to the egyptians that was N as a clear case ot of kidnapping for money human nature being what it Is and differing little today from what it was thousands of years ago it Is certain that there will be kidnapping in the future as in t the he past but while society cannot 1 protect itself against the individual oc cas lonal ional offense ot of this kind it certainly I 1 seems as if something could be done to wipe out the criminal gangs who make I 1 a business of this most vile of all crimes |