Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1931, Page 22

EXGABLER PAYS GANGNEN 15000 Chicagoan Tells Police Wife Mortgaged Home to Ran- som Him From Racketeers. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 4.—A story that his entire fortune of $150,000 had been paid to kidnapers for his release was fold today by James Tackett, former gambler, and wealthy road house oper- atér of suburban Blue Island. e §7-year-old Hackett, who weighs 240 pounds and is regarded by police as the “dictator” of the slot machine business in the southern part of Cook County, was kidnaped by a geng last Priday, he advised police last night. They had seised him on the grounds of the Idaho Country Club. He was re- | legsed yesterday on payment of the | méney, which was turned over to his | aBductors by his wife and James E. Blouin, & business associate. Hackett said that his wife worked from PFriday to Sunday to raise the $150,000, converting jewelry and securi- ties into cash, even [oh!#ml: far as to mortgage their home. was done | on assurance that he would sign the meortgags es soon as he was freed. | Investigation Promised. A full investigation was promised by | Patrick Roche, chief invest'gator for the State’s attorney's officy who said | that, while he believed Hackett was| kidnaped, he_ doubted if the ransom | price was as high as $150,000. Hackett said he was trailed to the Idaho Country Olub by the gang in two automobiles. After winding gauzs bandages around his head to prevent him from seeing, they drove him to a house which he believed was 15 or 20 miles away. Later his wife was told by the kidnapers over the telephone that she would never see him again| ., ss the mohey was paid. She and n met the abductcrs on a country rond. Hackett was freed a short while later near Melrose Park after he had been driven around in his own auto- mobile. Belief was expressed by Hackett that the kidnapers were affiliated with a| national organization which makes a business of abducting wealthy men, |in the rackets” Hackett sald. Snakes Incubate Eggs NG _STAR, WASHINGTOW' D. C, MONDAY, AND SCIENTISTS TRY TO LEARN HOW IT'S DONE. themselves around their eggs. LTHOUGH snakes are supposed to be cold-blooded creatures, they have | A no difficulty hatching their young by the simple expedient cf ocolling discovered by scientists who are & number of eggs at the Washington Zoo. In the photograph, Dr. E. L. Pox of the - research jon of the temperature with a delicate therm-couple. And the secret of how it's done may be | studying a giant python which is nursing Carnegie Institute * the reptile’s takin —U Photo. | “They asked me the same thing and I didn't tell them. They only got about $600 from Chamberlain. “'‘You can’'t hold out anything us;’ one of the men said to me. ‘We get information about h:w much dough you fellows have from the income tax office. We know how much a tap you can stand and you'll have to pay $150,000.' " Hackett is reputed to have retired from the gambling business .a month rior to an attempt last March 2 t> blow up with a bomb an establishment he formerly ran in Blue Island. The on | bomb falled to explode, but Willlam Maier, the night watchman, was shot to death by the men who placed the bomb. Hackett sald there was no con- nection between the attempted b-mbing and his abduction. and that they had been responsible for other abduotions, that on January 6 of Daniel Chamberlain, a Blue Island gsmbler. “When they kidnaj Chamberlain they asked him who else in Blue Island Quake Felt at Amherst. AMHERST, Mass., May 4 (P).—A dis- tinct earthquake shock was felt here at 5:17 a.m. today. 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