CHICAGO KIDNAPPING
CAPTORS RELEASE FACTOR
NEW YOKE, July 12,
A message from Chicago states that John Factor, the market speculator, who was kidnapped on July 1 by an armed gang, was freed tonight .in Lagrange, a suburb of Chicago. ; v , Factqr appeared at the police station' at Lagrange at midnight. Ho said, he* had been released by his abductors a few minutes before. ' .
Reports were immediately circulated that a ransom of 200,000 dollars had been paid by his family. Factor was driven to a street-car lino in "a motor-car escorted by two other cars loaded with hoodlums and released and directed to t\© police • station.
Later he was returned to his hoteL where he was placed under the care of a physician, who said he was suffering from a nervous breakdown.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1933, Page 7
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131CHICAGO KIDNAPPING Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1933, Page 7
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