LITTLE CHARLEY ROSS America's First Kidnapping for Ransom.

Hardback. 1st UK edn. On July 1, 1874, 4-yr. old Charley Ross was playing outside his home in the fashionable German-town section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when 2 strange men lifted him into a wagon and carried him away. Three days later his father received a ransom note. So began a crime which shocked a nation and became a legend. To this point in America's history, the kidnapping of a child for ransom was unheard of and it wasn't until the 1920s that such a crime was committed again. Illus. 304pp, 8vo. h/back. F. in Nr. F. dw.