According to The Express the South African police discovered an elaborate plot forkidnapping all the Ministers as a preliminary to declaring a Labour Republic.
To this the South African Government will no doubt retort that the kidnapping of the Labour leaders was also a joke--and so the whole matter will end in genial laughter.
Beton was to have a safe-conduct, and the kidnapping was to be done by Angus, at the time in England, quite as a private personal matter.
If so, and if the father connected the kidnapping of his son with to-day's visitor, he might let his desire for revenge overcome prudence.
It seemed impossible that a person so highly placed would dare risk his future by kidnapping a European girl, and Jeanne Soubise advised Stephen to turn his suspicions in another direction.
He knew his wife would never forgive him for this actual kidnappingof Pauline--he certainly had never intended it.
On the very day when the white man's village of Rockvale was in a hubbub of excitement because of the kidnapping of Pauline, the village of Shi-wah-ki was tumultuous with a different fervor.
I found out, through my maid, who arrived today, that some one of the kidnapping party had been clever enough to send a false message to the hotel, explaining my sudden departure.
They're kidnapping her, without a doubt," he said slowly.
It appears to have been almost solely for the foreign market that kidnapping was practised in England.
The whole country was in terror and consternation, afraid to let their children go near Aberdeen, and trembling for fear of a kidnapping excursion from that place.
It was, however, when the Scottish trade with the plantations began to open up, soon after the Union, that the disgraceful practice of kidnapping and transporting children became prevalent.
Those who ventured on kidnapping flew at high game.
We need no writers of romance to find instances of kidnapping in Scotland before the Union.
The few reports we have of English cases of kidnapping are too profusely dressed up with technicalities to permit us to see the naked facts.
He declared that, in all probability, the physician who had been guilty of the kidnapping was a crazy man.
Between us we so worked it out that my kidnapping was not in vain.
Afterward the kidnapping may have been done by others who knew nothing whatever of Doctor Garnet.
If it's actually a case of kidnapping he's certainly shown himself as cunning as mad folks sometimes are.
He then resumed his wonted form, explained at length his reasons for so unceremoniously kidnapping her, and finally won her consent to their union.
Both set up their looms, and began to weave exquisite designs in tapestry: Minerva choosing as her subject her contest with Neptune; and Arachne, the kidnapping of Europa.
The kidnapping the child was a crime much more consistent with their habits than with those of smugglers, and his temporary guardian might have fallen in an attempt to protect him.
But the kidnapping of the boy--there they touch me closer.
That, and that alone, was and is kidnappingin divine and human statute.
In 1788 Virginia, which contained many free negroes, enacted that any person convicted of kidnapping or selling into slavery any free person should suffer death on the gallows.
One of their favourite practices was the kidnapping of eminent or wealthy persons, in the hope of extorting ransom.
On the charge of kidnapping the two girls the heavier punishment of imprisonment was meted out to those involved.
They had instructed the fishermen to get information from the girls about the diamonds, in any way the ignorant men thought best, and the kidnapping scheme was the product of the brains of the old woman and her husband.
When the warship's men boarded the Cobra he would have to explain the kidnapping of Violet Maynard and his treatment of Chermside as best he could, and he would doubtless have to suffer for it.
Seems like a kidnapping job, but that's no business o' mine.
Again roared out Vanderdecken, in a hurricane note fit to awaken the echoes of the inland mountains, "The Englishman is kidnapping Miss Dudley, and hath already seized the larger boat.
Mr. Twist was horror-struck too, for he thought she was announcing the kidnapping of Mrs. Bilton.
Not much kidnapping there, I guess," said Mr. Twist with a jerk of his thumb.
She took no stock in the kidnapping theory, for Winnie had left the child with Azalea, who would have fought off a horde of marauders before she let them carry off the little one.
But how much better to have Zaly do the kidnapping than some professional abductors!
He must've seen it before, if you never did; you don't tell me this little bit o' kidnappingwas a sudden idea!
In fact, he had foreseen treachery from the first, and the desperate device of kidnapping the traitor proved to have been as deliberate a move as Raffles had ever planned to meet a probable contingency.
These German princes have crimps all over Europe kidnapping men for their armies.
Twas Squire Bullcott that had persecuted Miss Englefield at Bath, planned her abduction while his own wife was availing herself of his absence to run away from him, and nearly succeeded in kidnapping his own wife by mistake!
A Solomon Islander, who had got there during the days when blackbirding or kidnapping was common, moved among them.
Without the White Nile trade Khartoum would almost cease to exist; and that trade is kidnapping and murder.
There is also a good deal of kidnapping in the less civilized parts of Greece like Ætolia.
Perhaps there is no war; the supply is kept up then by deliberately kidnapping on a large scale, or by piracy.
Having entirely depopulated the smaller islands, and being prevented from kidnapping the people of Cuba, Porto Rico, and Jamaica, by the settlers on those islands, they tried the Caribbees.
It followed, therefore, that some of the more audacious of the adventurers took up the trade of kidnapping the Indians from other islands and the mainland.
For many years the Portuguese had beenkidnapping negroes on the west coast of Africa.
This fraudulent kidnapping must never be known to Miss Pat.
This kidnapping is partly designed as a punishment for me, and I propose to take care of it without letting Miss Pat know.
