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Front page of The Gary American, Friday, 23 November 1928, with a portrait of a young woman at upper left; the Holstein item is the first paragraph in the boxed Red Hot News column at lower left
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The Gary American, 23 November 1928, page 1: a robbery plot against Holstein reported

Stop Robbery Plot

Paper
The Gary American (Gary, Ind.)
Date
1928-11-23
Page
Page 1
Headline
Stop Robbery Plot
Source
Library of Congress, Chronicling America
Rights
A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.

In a boxed column of short items headed “Red Hot News,” at the lower left of the front page of The Gary American for 23 November 1928, is a paragraph headed “Stop Robbery Plot,” datelined NEW YORK CITY.

It reads: “Casper Holstein, wealthy New York clubman and philanthropist, whose kidnapping last September aroused national interest, was to be the victim of a $20,000 robbery by gangsters, it was learned here recently with the arrest of” a man, white, “just out of Sing Sing. He had planned the robbery and was to have been assisted in it by others.”

The OCR of the arrested man’s name is uncertain and it is not repeated. No other record of the plot or the arrest has been opened. The page is filed as part of the paper’s continuing coverage of Holstein after the kidnapping.