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90005

1920s "Kidnapping Episode"Archive.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:47.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
1920s Kidnapping Episode Archive.
<B>1920s "Kidnapping Episode" Archive.</B></I> Young Sydney Johnstone of Winona, Minnesota was blessed with a gift for fiction that was ill suited for his poor judgment. In February 1927 the imaginative junior high school student composed a vivid kidnapping threat and actually mailed it to the "victim's" father! This small archive is anchored by Johnstone's three-page letter to Frank Horton spelling out doom for Frances "Pansy" Horton if $2,500 is not forthcoming. The letter, signed "<I>The Underworld Trio. Spike, Ike & Mike</B></I>" reads like pulp fiction and retains its original mailing envelope. An envelope imprinted for the Principal's Office of Winona's Junior High School accompanies a copy of this letter. Across the envelope's face is scrawled, "<I>Here is your kidnapping episode</B></I>" in Johnstone's hand. Mr. Horton was not amused by all of this for he retained an official Government imprint regarding penalties for blackmail. Rounding out the lot is a 1928 school essay by a supposedly reformed Johnstone in which the lad gushes over his fascination with electrical devices, especially radio. The whole is reminiscent of a Booth Tarkington <I>Penrod</B></I> story. Overall very good condition.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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