Captured by Bandits

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 February 1914, Page 4

Captured by Bandits

i (Sydney Sun. London, January 2-L Mr Lewis Clark, a wealthy banker of Spokane, Washington, has disappeared, and. the affair is exciting interest throughout the whole of Western America. It is believed that he was captured by a gang of bandits, and the Chief of Police at Los Angelos has received a letteu- from the missing man in which he says that u> is in the hands of rrlesperadoes who demand £15,000 for his ransom with the alternatim' of death unless the money is paid witlun a fortnight. The, message was dropped into the box at the pclicc headquarters.