MAN WHO KILLED HITLER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20078, 26 October 1939, Page 6

MAN WHO KILLED HITLER

EXPOSURE OF NAZI HORRORS

PUBLISHER KIDNAPPED

AMELIA EARHART’S HUSBAND RESCUED

(British United Press) BAKERSFIELD (Cal.), May 18. Mr. George Palmer Putnam, wellknown American publisher and widower of Amelia Enrhart, the famous airwoman who lost her life in a Pacific Ocean flight, was rescued today from an empty house at Bakersfield, California, where he had been found bound and gagged. He told the police that, he had been "kidnapped from his home on the previous night by two men who spoke in German. They knocked him unconscious in his garage, he said, and threw him into his own car and drove off with him.

Mr. Putnam, recently handed the police a note —the third of its kind he had received —threatening him with death unless he stopped publication of the. anti-Nazi book, “The Man Who Killed Hitler.’’

With the note, which concluded: “Germany Defies the World,” was a bullet-ridden copy of the hook.

Mr. Putnam, says the British United Press, told the police to-day after his rescue that his kidnappers appeared to be. talking about the book during the ride to Bakersfield, 11,0 miles from Hollywood. He was found in a partly-built house to which his lddifappers had taken him, after people living near-by had heard his cries for help. •His arms and legs were tightly bound with tape from a motor car tyro arid a gag made of similar tape, which ho had worked .free, was hanging iloose round his mouth.

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