CRIME: On Sourland Mountain (Cont'd)

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¶ In Los Angeles, last week, three kidnappers were given ten-years-to-life in prison for abducting a man, his wife and their Japanese servant. Maximum penalty was recommended by the Court.

¶ In Warren, Ohio, the first of two men to be tried for kidnapping James Dejute Jr., 12, son of a Niles contractor (TIME, March 14), received the maximum punishment of life imprisonment. The trial took but four hours. A few days later, the other man was given from one to 20 years for harboring the kidnapped boy.

¶ In Manhattan, an extortionist was sent to the penitentiary for 50 years, guilty of abducting for ransom an East Side butcher.

¶ Across the Raritan River from Highland Park, N. J., someone tried to break into the nursery of Diane Johnson, seven weeks, whose father is vice president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings). The marauder leaped from his ladder, exchanged shots with a night watchman, fled. Police soon collared a suspect.

¶ Meanwhile from Hopewell, 20 miles from Highland Park, scene of the nation's most fabulous criminal case, not one reliable word came of the whereabouts of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., snatched from his crib the windy night of March 1.