PECULIAR STORY
OF KIDNAPPED AVIFE
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
AUCKLAND, October 23
Passengers by'the Niagara from Sydney included a young married couple, Mr and Mrs Walter Alervyn Shippard, ivho tell an extraordinary tale of hated rival’s kidnapping of the bride of tivo days, and an exciting chase in a motor car. Sheppard traced a wire to a house in Bellevue Hill, ivhere he states lie found his ii'ife locked in a room. After he had gained entrance and was carrying his wife to a waiting taxi he was attacked, but avrs permitted to get away on a threat to shoot, though lie had no firearms.
His Avife, who ,is a Wellington girl and AA r os educated at Wanganui College, said she AV’as not hurt until liei brother ari'toed on the scene. Then she got bruised a-hit in a scuffle. They are now going to America, then London, and Pans and back to Australia, —. • ' ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1928, Page 5
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153PECULIAR STORY Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1928, Page 5
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