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KIDNAP BANKER AND THREATEN TO BOMB HOME
Mesenbrink told Chief Alfred Wolff of the Bellwood police that the two men, armed with a shotgun, were in the garage behind his home at 318 South 26th avenue when he went there to get his car at 8:30 a.m.
The men ordered him into the car and forced him to drive west in Lake street and across the Du Page county line. Near the Elmlawn cemetery north of Elmhurst, according to Mesenbrink, the men, who were in the rear seat, ordered him to stop the car. One of them showed him a time bomb made of pipe.
"Your house is mined with these bombs and they're going to go off at 10:30," the man said. "You better get home right away."
The men then got out and let Mesenbrink drive away in his car. He went to the police station, got Chief Wolff, and went to his home. He and the chief wee unable to find any bombs.
Sheriff Arthur Bennett of Du Page county was called from Wheaton and he and his men found the time bomb and one shotgun at the place Mesenbrink indicated near the cemetery.
[Submitted by Ida Maack Recu]
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Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) May 13, 1936
KIDNAPING PART OF BANK ROBBERY PLOT, CHIEF SAYS
Police Chief Alfred Wolff of Bellwood said last night that he believed he knew the motive for the mysterious kidnaping on Monday of Arthur C. Mesenbrink, president of the Bellwood State bank. Mesenbrink was seized in the garage behind his home at 318 South 26th avenue, Bellwood, by two men who threatened him with shot guns and a bomb and forced him to drive them around for an hour in his automobile.
Chief Wolff said that the apparent purpose of the gunmen was to rob the bank but that they were foiled in this by Mesenbrink's refusal for some time to admit to them his identity. Suspecting their intention to loot the bank, he told them at first that he was Martin Frase, a neighbor, who uses the same garage.
When Mesenbrink finally admitted his identity after the gunmen found bank papers in his automobile, the abductors considered it was too late to hold up the bank, Chief Wolff said. They left Mesenbrink with his car on a lonely road in DuPage county.
(submitted by Ida Maack Recu)
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