Bombay, June 6.
The amazing exploits of the Lind-borgh baby-snatchers have acted an incentive 10 kidnappers ope ing in Bombay, who have conducted 4 similar earipaign with remarkable success.
Eighteen children, mostly girls, between the ages of six and eleven years, have been stolen during the ast two. mont Children loitering on the roads when their parents were away working in the mills, were induced to Teave their homes by offers. of sweets, oF in the case of older chil dren, by the promise of obtaining They were than carried to the nearest, railway station and taken away by trains leaving the city limits, Phe victims were robbed of their valuables, and in. two cases they were hurled out of the compartment while the train was Speed, with the result that they met 'A. vigilant watch has been kept by the Bombay C.LD. for some time past, and several arrests been effected.
The mill hands have been des-berately enraged at the kidnapping. Scare, and recently one man who was leading an obstinate" child. was mercilessly belaboured, evident-being mistaken for a kidnapper.
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