Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-01-17
k%NTlKlDNAPING LEAGUE.
st. Louis Man Suggests Organi-
k cation to Protect Children.
AROUSED BY THE OUDAHY CASE.

"UUSED BY THE UUOAHY CASE.
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Rau1 Brown VIII Cooperate With
Others to Provide q Fund For a.
Standing Reward Is willing to
Contribute Literally Urges the
Rich to Organize.
Paul Brown, manager Of the Brown
branch Of the Continental Tobacco
company and director In the Mercantile
Trust company, believes that RICH men
and law abiding citizens in general
should organize against kidnapers.
The kidnapping of Edward Cudahy,
Or., or Omaha and the ransom which
% boys father was obliged to pay to
insure his safe return home aroused
MI. Brown. He believes that 1t has
opened a new avenue OF crime, that eff
forts to steal children should be nipped
In the bud and that citizens throughout
the country should act in concert to
Illustrate the designs Of the kidnaper.
Mr.. Browns idea is to get up a per-
manent fund to which men of means
shall subscribe to provide rewards to
officers Of the law and others who eff
4OS& LGC capture u u hI!udDC'. WI
Brown also suggests that the money
could be used to obtain legislation
against kidnapers in states and terri
tories where the statutes do not pro-
vide for their punishment. He express
es himself as being willing to contrib
ute literally to such a fund.
MIR. Brown holds that any man of
means Is liable to an experience SINH
lar to that Of Mr.. Cudahy. He upholds
the action taken by the Nebraskan, but
says that with a national antikidnap-
ing league a gang of outlaws would not
have been able to accomplish SO sue
cessful a steal. He says that they
might have stolen q child and even Sc
cured a ransom for its return, but that
they could not have made good their
escape. The fact that there existed at
all times a reward for the capture Of
kidnapers would have aroused the local
detectives to extraordinary efforts and
would have served to disrupt the Or
ganization of the criminals.
81 believe" said Mr.. Brown to q st.
Louis Republic reporter the other day,
shat a fund of this kind could be
raised. Many would oppose the move
ment, saying that If rewards were to
be had for the capture Of kidnapers
there would be too many cand1-
dates for the rewards and that schemes
to abduct children for the rewards
would be instituted by criminals. This
would not be the case. The punish
ment meted out to a criminal when
caught would be sufficient to prevent
anything of this kind.
e GGTF ~ uor0 EnnrUn fhof tho %oI-op nf q
kidnaper or q person bringing to light a
conspiracy to steal a child for ransom
would be rewarded, there would be no
- more cases Of kidnapping like that of
young Cudahy. Criminality is second
nature with a great many, but the
worst criminals would rather secure
money without running the risk of ar
rest. For this reason many would
turn states evidence and even disclose
plots before q crime had been commit.
ted.
ct understand that Mr.. Cudahy has
offered a considerable sum for the cap
ture Of the gang which abducted his
Son. In this he is right, but he will
really receive no material good for thu
money paid out in b reward, and his
action liz for the public good. Light
ming does not strike twice In the sam
place. There will be no further at
tempt to abduct his children, but thu
successful stealing of his son will ope1
an avenue for similar attempt!
throughout the country.
1.-THE disappearance OF Charley Ross
AND kidnapping up to the present time
show that gangs of outlaws believe th1
method Of getting money to be a lucra
tive one. / don't think that the penal
ty for k%idnapers can be made too sc
we're. Nothing therefore should By
overlooked which might lead to thei
capture. 1 think that a newspape
might be made the medium for gettln:
up the fund or an organization OF busl
ness men handle it. The main thing 1
to suppress kidnapping, and it become
necessary that every father IN Amer1c'
should endeavor to stamp out the prac
tice.
81 don't think that there is any doub
that 100000 could be raised in tn
cause. There would be no rear tina
any OF this sum would be paid out 10
anything other than bona d arrests
1t could be so handled that every cen
disbursed would serve to effect beneh
cial results. Discrimination ould o
used SO that schemes Of designing Grim
Anals could be discovered and defeat
ed"
Another Consumption Cure.
! Or. William West, a young osteopat