Crime Must Pay the Penalty #9

1949-08-01 · 36 pages

"Trail of the Airborne Ransom" recounts the true case of sixteen-year-old Elmer Hammond Jr., who in August 1931 took his father's speedboat for recreation, leading to a kidnapping by the Dennison Gang that the New York Police had no legal authority to pursue. The criminals demand ransom and plan to use the kidnapped boy, but Hammond's brother Pete and associates devise a plan to infiltrate the gang by posing as criminals themselves, ultimately leading to the gang's capture and Hammond's rescue. The story concludes with Hammond's kidnapper Rex Lewis being sentenced to five years in San Quentin, and Pete orchestrating an escape plot involving a tunnel through the prison laundry.

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