A KIDNAPPING
OF MILLIONAIRE’S vyiFE,
>. •, \ (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
NEW YORK, December 17. It is reported from Kansas City that Mrs Nell Connelly, the wife of the millionaire garment manufacturer, was kidnapped yesterday. She sent a note to her husband, stating that she would be blinded and that her chauffeur, who was taken with her, would be murdered, unless their abs ductors were paid a ransom of seventy five thousand dollars. The woman’s husband asserted that he does not want the police interference. He is ready and willing to pay the money. Mr/ Connolly’s attorney, Mr Reed* formerly Senator Reed, of Missouri, in a. public statement, guaranteed the payment, and be stated that if a single hair on her head Was harmed, he would spend the rest of his life in running down the kidnappers and sending them to the gallows.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1931, Page 5
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