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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 259th day of the year.
ON THIS DAY IN 1928, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Police with Tear Bombs Start Kidnaper Hunt as ‘Deadline’ Approaches.”
The article focused on a boy who was abducted and held for a ransom.
“Ranieri persisted in his attempts to discourage police from searching for his son,” the Eagle reported. “‘In 24 hours I’ll get my boy back if you keep out of it,’ he told the police. [R]anieri told kidnapers that he would not and could not pay the ransom, despite their threats to kill the boy if the $60,000 were not paid today.”