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CRIME: Snatchers on Sourland Mt.

At Niles, Ohio last week, James Dejute Jr., 12, son of a well-to-do contractor, was kidnapped on his way to school by two men in a brown coupe. A minister's wife witnessed the abduction. Next day Contractor Dejute received a note demanding $10,000 unless he wanted his boy back ''in installments." Two days after that a posse of local police found the Dejute boy alive and well in a house not ten miles from his home. The kidnappers were found with him. He had been concealed behind a false...

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