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America’s First Known Kidnapping for Ransom

Charley and Walter Ross were lured with candy and firecrackers.

Library of Congress , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

About a hundred and fifty years ago, on July 1, 1874, a kidnapping that was the first of its kind would shake up America.

Two little kids by the name of Charley and Walter Ross, who were 4 and 6 years old…