BOB CONSIDINES ON THE LINE Brutal Kidnap Murder Aroused Readers NEW YORK Not in a long time has there been as much response to these little pieces as there was to a column about two monsters named Hall and Heady and the wish I expressed to apply a club to them. I believe more people were aroused over this heartless kidnaping and savage murder than were openly arosed over the Korean War and the atrocities behind the Iron Curtain. Not in my time, at least, have I heard more expressed desires on the part of people to shove aside the processes of law and take what was left of the law in their own hands. Now, apparently, we must sit through a trial in which counsel will contend (via psychiatrists) that these confessed human butchers deserve to live out the rest of their lives on the taxpayers because something thwarted them in their youth, or they blacked out. Mrs. Dorothy Bartlett of Harrisburg, Pa., sums up the feeling of a number of readers in a letter which reads, in part: Psychiatry should confine itself to where it belongs in the medical field, not the courts of justice. Frankly, since it is so willing to lend itself as a toy to defense lawyers, and is so compassionate toward all who murder, it is creating a stench in the nostrils of its former respecters . . . when we cease to act like human beings, we no longer deserve the consideration due human beings. The trial of the murderers of Bobby Greenlease, and those of fantastically cruel or deranged persons who tried to collect ransom on the dead child or did indeed wind up with some of the ransom money will take a lot of time and more money. Harry Storms, the erudite New York publican who collects odd news items for the library of his Press Box restaurant, suggests in a letter that it was considerably more economic to rid society of people like Hall and Heady in the early days of the republic. He sends me a transcript, of the published itemized bill for the execution of two traitors on May 13, 1777. It reads: Due Jacob Hoorbeck for hanging Jacobus Rosa and Medeagh: Disguising hangman 4 pounds 2 coffins ,... 3.0.0. Burying criminals.. 1.0.0. Erecting gallows .. 1.0.0. Disguising helper.. .16 sh. Attending execution 2.0.6. 11.16.6 (app. 40) Miss Anne ONeill, a teacher at the Sierra Vista School of Madera, Cal., commenting on my suggestion that schools hereafter refuse to give up a child to a sti anger, sends along a directive from Lawrence Geffen, principal of the Sierra Vista School. It might well serve as a model: To all teachers: The recent mid western kidnaping has set off at least eight other cases of the same crime, all of which occurred where the children were released from their schools to strangers who claimed kinship. In this state, such an action would leave the school district, the teacher and the principal liable, financially and morally. Please do not release any children, even to their own parents, without a note from the office granting that permission. If a person comes after a child, he must secure permission before the child will be released to him. This even applies to the juvenile authorities. Honestly, this is not only for our protection. In fact, it is more in the line of our duty to these children not to treat lightly of their presence.