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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1928, Page 4

I\ ID.NAI’PHKS ill'SJf. >;K\V YGI! K, March ‘2O. The most thrilling plots c-f Air kd--sir Wallace iiro being realised on a ■vhokvak' scale in the daily lilt* of Derail liv h we.l-dis: ip lined I.ami of erininiils known ns f‘tho purplo gang,’ vho, within the post low months have .i<lnapped and hold to ransom under ;lireats of death marc than 'lll of the .own’s rich Pit teens. Two of the latest victims of “the purple gang’’ arc Mr Harvey Watson, i local Labour lender, and Mr Janies S. Hall, the principal owner of a highly prosperous ‘‘beverage estnblishnient.” Mr Watson was kidnapped on Monlay, niiid on the following day officials >f the American Federation of Labour received a note demanding the payment of £5.000 for Ids release. The Labour leader is still missing, as the federation refuses to raiisam I:4ni. Mr Hall was sitting on Friday at dinner, with his wife, when two men. who showed detective’s badges, enterled his home and summoned him to •unompany them to the police station 'to identify a < j-im i n:i I wlio had ju-J been a rrested. Half an hour after his departure', two other men called upon Mrs Hull and presented her with a rote cal/ng for an immediate pa.vir.ont < f £2.000 tn save her husband from dcat.li. The politfa were informed of the kidnapping, but friends of the captured .mail begged them to desist from all investigation, pending the payment of the ransom. .Mr Hall was: discover-

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