The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-09
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Federal Officials
Seek AbductOrs in 1
City Says Report
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There were 10 or II members Of the
gang, Bremen said. He based the es-
innate on the sound Of their voices
as they held him captive % days. He
got no view Of any Of them, he said,
for he was kept captive in q dark
room from the time he was kidnapped,
January II, until three men took him
II an automobile and pushed him,
blind folded. from the car in Roches-
ter.
During his Imprisonment, he said,
they threatened to kill him II he dis
obeyed their commands and guards,
working In relays Of two. were with
him constantly.
Adolph Bremen. father Of the kid
nap victim and the man who arrang-
ed for the money with which to meet
the huge ransom demand, had little
to offer In the way Of help to the Of
ficers.
Communications exchanged with
the kidnapers, however. were avail
able to the state, city and federal Of
ficers who are joined In the hunt. It
is on these communications and the
experience Of Walter Magee, the in
termediary who delivered the ransom
money-in S. and SO bills-that the
officers pin their hopes.
Magee Is Keyman
It was Magee who received the
first note, demanding $500, 900 and
warning against bargaining with
US" It was left on his office door
step a few hours after Bremen was
seized.
It was Magee, too. who Just prior
to last Saturday was to have gone to
Des MONIES with the 100000. regis
tered at a hotel named by the kid
napers and used a pseudonym sup
piled by the gang. At the time Magee
received these instructions the ram
som was guarded by time lock in a
st. Paul bank and the plan could not
be followed. Silence masked the
gangs activities then. prompting
Adolph, the father, to issue his APP
peal for early return Of his son and
giving the mob three days and three
nights in which to communicate with
assurance Of no police interference.
Spurred to action by the elderly
Bremer's word Of honor. the captors
Immediately conveyed final instruc-
lions for turning over the money.
Magee followed orders. He went to
q pre-arranged place in st. Paul. look
ed in a strange automobile parked at
the curb at a specified place, and read
q note secreted in pocket OF the car.
In accordance with instructions. he
replaced the note. climbed in the car
with the money. and drove south.
Drove ON Lonely Road
At Faribault, Mimi, he took a cross
road, slowed to Is miles an hour, and
drove on in the lonely night. Then
the signal-four flashes OF an auto
mobiles headlights.
Magee stopped, placed the money
on the ground, re-entered the car, and
drove away.
The experience Of Dr. H. T. Nippert
family friend and physician Of the
Bremers, also was counted upon tc
figure in the hunt. Nippert, though
he refused to confirm it, was under
stood to have gone to the kidnap lair
at the gangs orders, to treat Bremen
The victim had been slugged with
pistol butts by two of the kidnapers
when they invaded his car the morn.
ing Of Jan. II when he was enroute tc
the bank. The car later was found
abandoned, its interior spotted with
blood.
Nippert, blindfolded, was taken 70,
five or six hour automobile ride
at night after receiving the secone
contact made with the family by the