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DETENTION FOR
20 YEARS
Kidnapping Penalty
TACOMA, Washington, U.S.A., July
17.--Twenty years' .detention on a farm
near -Miilaii,. Michigan, was the sentence
imposed on Mrs. Waley, the 19-year
old wife of Hammon Waley, aged 24,
who pleaded guilty to a charge of hav
ing kidnappedGeorge Weyerhauser, the
nine-year-old son of. a millionaire lum
ber inercliant. and who was sentenced
to 20 years' imprisonment.
[Mrs. Waley, -it was reported, was
an expectant mother. It was revealed
at the trial that Waley had been sen
tenced 15 times during the. last five
years on charges of fraud. On most
occasions, because of political influence,
he"was quickly given parole. George
Weyerhauser, the boy who was kid
napped, was held for £40,000 ranso:n.
The moriney was paiil,'and he was re
turned 'to his parents.]
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