Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-10
THREE. TAKEN
BY k|DNAPERS
IN CALIFORNIA
Son OF San Jose Merchant Abb
Quoted And Held For Ransom
OF $4,000.
MAN AND WIFE MISSING
Couple May Have Been Slain
In Revenge Plot Following
Gun Battle AT Trona.

NeISlJy STduudIe dIlu sui VI q plOlii-
inent San Jose merchant, was held
by kidnapers today for $4,000 ram
som.
The ransom demand was tele-
phoned from San Francisco to the
home of Alex Hart, the youths IA
ther. 1t was Hart's first intima-
ton that his son, who had failed
to keep an appointment with hiln
late yesterday, had been kidnapped.
I'VE have youl son and want
$4,000 for him. Don't get in touch
with police or you will never see
your son again." the message said,
according to police.
Disregarding the warning, Hart
called the police.
The call was traced to San
Francisco hotel.
The youths automobile was found
early today northwest of San Jose
on a country road. The head
lights were burning. There was no
signs of a struggle at the spot po-
lice reported.
Federal, county and state officers
joined local authorities in the hunt.
The federal officers were led by
Reed E. Vetterlie, lone survivor Of
tie Kansas City station massacre
last June.
The telephone message, Hart
SAID did not tell him where to take
the money nor did the speaker say
anything about further communi-
cations.
The kidnapped youth left the store
yesterday afternoon to meet his
father at the San Jose country club.
Police worked in secrecy after
the reported ransom demand but
later they broadcast description
of the missing youth and asked
public cooperation in finding him.
TIE Hart family said that sew
eral weeks ago several men in All
automobile tried to crowd Brooke's
machine into the curb, then chased
him. The affair was not reported
TO police at the time.
Mrs. Hart was Frustrated by her
sons disappearance. A doctor was
called to attend her.
The family sat up through the
night. waiting for word from either
the police or the kidnapers. There
is another son, Alex, Jr., and three
daughters in the family. Brooke
Hart was graduated from Santa
Clara university in June and en-
tered his fathers mercantile busi-
ness Immediately.
TRONA, Calf, Nov. 10. U.P) -
A trio of gunner was sought
throughout Southern California to-
Gay as kidnapers of George Gleix-
ner, purported bootlegger, and his
wife, who were whisked away to
possible death shortly after dusk
last night.
Mrs. Gleixner was seized in their
home three miles south Of kere.
Her husband, making a desperate
attempt to escape, was overpoWered
on the desert after his car had
been riddled with bullets and
wrecked.
Authorities feared Gleixner may
have been marked for death in a
reprsal plot and that his wife had
been taken along for witness.
The abductors we're last seen
speeding toward Randsburg, Kern
county, on the road to Los Angeles,
100 miles from here.
Although there were no actual
witnesses Deputy Sheriff Ed Du-
rant said Mrs. Gleixner apparently
was overpowered in her home as
her husband took to flight IN
small car when he saw the kidnap-
ers approach.
Neighbors said there was a blind
ing outburst of gunfire as the gull
men put about in their own car
and gave chase. The chase con-
tinued for some distance before
Gleixners machine, riddled with
slugs, was forced into a ditch and
he fled across the desert on foot.
He was overtaken and dragged back
TO the other machine where his
wife was held captive.
The car, a large, dark machine
of high power make, disappeared
in cloud of dust toward Rands-
burg. Witnesses said dark COM
pleXioned man, apparently an Ital-
ian, was at the wheel. Officers
were handicapped by the failure OF
witnesses to record the license num-
ber.
Dlrant Immediately organized a
posse but no trace of the gunmen
could be found. He notified Los
Angeles county authorities to broad
cast description over the state
teletype.
Local authorities said Gleixner
operated small bootlegging estab-
lishment. They believed his oper-
ations had incurred the wrath OF
some rival faction.
THE LADY PURSUES
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10. tU.H -