Kidnapping, said Nat J. L. Pieper, regional head of FBI, was vanishing from the U. S. Agent Pieper was addressing the San Francisco Commonwealth Club on the subject one day last week. A message interrupted Mr. Pieper's speech. It was a summons to suburban Hillsborough. There had been a startling kidnapping.
From a sobbing, grey-haired little woman Agent Pieper got the story. The woman, Mary Foley, nursemaid in the home of wealthy Count Marc de Tristan, had been taking three-year-old Marc Jr. for a walk when a car drove up beside them. A black-a-vised, beak-nosed man leaped out, grabbed Marc, slugged...