Evening star., 1935-02-03
K|DNAP VICTIMS
TRY TO FORGET
Seek SoIace in Leading
Active Lives, but Keep
on Guard.

memories of Americas Fdnap VIC
tins.
Little June Rdbles suffers the most,
for her 19 days in the hands OF KID
nap barbarians was cruehst OF all.
She is only years old. and her young
mind retains vividly the recollection
of being buried alive in the hot desert
near Tucson and Of being chained like
an animal in a cofnnhke box sunk
in the burning sands.
Her experience with kidnapers ID
now nearly q year behind, yet
even when she Is inside the house
now she frequently rushes to the win
dows and pulls down the shades. IN
the fear that some one Is peering
through at her." a member OF the
family said recently.
Physically Recovered.
Another time, as the hunt for her
kidnapers-unsucces thus far
was being pressed, she said:
st hope they catch those men ana
put them In q hole, like they did me"
Physically the child has fully re-
covered, but it has not been easy to
forget. High walls protect her today
as she lives, in many respects prs
oner, at a parochial boarding scnooi'
Guards are on duty constantly. she
is never permitted to leave the grounds
except when her parents call Tor ner.
It is the unforgettable terror ana
the fear that again she might be
marked for abduction that grips not
only the child, but her parents as
we'll.
John J. O'Connell, jr., Of Albany.
N. Y, never speaks Of his months
imprisonment, with kidnapers as MS
jailers. The young man. nephew OF
Dan and Ed O'Connell. powers IN New
York State Democratic affairs. was
freed upon payment Of $4,000 ran
som.
With one man serving a 5O-year
prison term for the kidnapping and
three other men still being sought,
Young OConnell has turned to busi-
ness, working at the brewery OF his
uncle, Ed O'Connell. He lives with
his mother.
Visits Night Spots.
O'Connell is seen, as before the
KIDNAPPING, at night spots and boxing
and wrestling matches; but the mem
ory of his experience with kidnaps
persists-for in these public appear
ances he always is accompanied by
o bodyguard.
John (Jake the Barber) Factor, who
had a double dose of kidnap expert
ences-his son as well as himself was
abducted-has disappeared from his
Chicago haunts. After giving testi-
nony that went far to break up the
Roger Touhy gang, Factor was given
a breathing spell in his court action
to resist extradition to England, where
he faces trial involving a 100000
stock swindle.
Factor Is believed to be somewhere
in California. Not only his own move
nents but those of his son and his
wife are carefully guarded. During
his residence in Chicago following
his release by kidnapers in July, 1888,
he was constantly protected by body
guards. He was in the hands OF
kidnapers IL days and suffered some
mistreatment at their hands.
Max Price, one Of the early VIC
tins Of Eastern kidnapers, still "shud-
ders," he admits. at the memory OF
his nine days as a hostage OF kid
napers. Price, a wealthy real estate
dealer of New Haven. Conn, was
seized by three men near his home
and driven blndfolded to a shack
which he believes was near SPRING
field, Mass.
Shudders at Memory.
Rewards totaling $4,000 were Of
fered for his return alive, but he was
released when police activities be-.
came too uncomfortable for his kid
napers.
Price, who was 81 years old at the
time, spent some time in a sanitarium
after his release. Today he is ''in
fine condition." but still "shudders"
at the kidnap memories.
Two of st. Paul, Mimi, three kid
nap Vctims-they paid total Of
S312,o00 for their freedom-have re-
turned to their business activities
Edward G. Bremen to his desk as
q bank president and William Hamm,
IT., to his brewery interest. Ransoms
Of 5000, 900 and 100000, respectively.
were paid for their releases.
The third victim, young Haskell
Bohn, is looking for a job" After
his release on payment Of a $4,000
ransom, he spent considerable time
on a Medora, N. Oak, ranch trying
to forget. One Of Bohn's alleged kid
napers, Verne Sankey, committed
suicide In jail.
Mrs. Reed Lives Quietly.
Kansas City's two women victims
of abductors have taken different
methods to crowd out the recollection
of their terror.
Mrs. Nell Donnelly, who was held
two days for $4,000 ransom and
then freed without payment when
the threat of the laws vengeance
alarmed her hdnapers, is now the
wife of former Senator James A.
Reed Of Missouri. She lives quietly
at the Reed home, but retains her
interest in the Donnelly garment
works and attends actively to the
business.
It was Reed, then her counsel,
who sounded an ultimatum at the
time of her kidnapping that II hair
of her head was harmed he would
spend the rest Of his life and his
fortune to track her Ndnapers down
and punish them. Two men are
serving life sentences for this crime,
and another rs years.
Miss Mary McElroy. daughter ot
City Manager H. F. McElroy, Of Kan
sas City-he paid $4,000 for her re-
lease-has spent much Of her time
in travel She returned recently
from Europe.
Walter MCGEE, who confessed to
participation in the McElroy kidnap-
ing, is under death sentence-the first
to be marked for the extreme penalty
under new laws growing out Of the
Lindbergh kidnapping.
Miss McElroy, as her fathers ON
cial hostess, Is active in society, and
moves about with as much freedom
as before the kidnapping, without
bodyguards.