HEAVY RANSOM

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1933, Page 2

HEAVY RANSOM

BANDITS RELEASE PRISONER - ' - DENVER, March -2. It is revealed the Dr. John-hostel', a young physician, and friend of the | kidnapped broker, kept a rendezvous , with the abductors, on oeiiiur oi ( Claude K. Boettclier, the inuiti-mil--1 lionaije father of - the kidnapped man. Foster drove to the designated spot ’near the municipal air route, where the kidnappers were waiting. - , Though they remained out of sight _ thjemseA'es, they allowed Foster a glinipse of the blindfolded victim, hosier dropped ; a bag containing the money and raced for Denver to inform Boettcher’s family. ■ I Boettcher, jnr., who is a friend of Colonel Lindbergh, described the kidnapping as - sixteen days and nights of blackness, discomfort and-threats. “Thank God, it’s over,” he said. “Where 1 was held aud by. whom I don’t know. It appeared to be the basement in some house, eighteen hours by fast automobile from ; Denver. The abductors treated me as gently as possible under the circumstances. About eleven p.m. on February 12, my wife and I had just; returned home. I started to drive into the garage when two men in a small sedan drove up.-Both were armpd. They put me in their car and drove away. They put .adhesive tape over my eyes and rojied my, wrists,”