GIRL KIDNAPPED
BIG RANSOM PAID VICTIM TREATED COURTEOUSLY. .„ (United Pro so Association—Dy Electric Telegraph—C opyright.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, May 29.
New history in kidnapping i s written fey a gang who abducted the socially prominent daughter o,f a city (manager. They paid her extreme courtesies during seventeen hours’' detention before thd father willingly, paid 30,000 dollars ransom.
The newspapers refrained from mentioning th© kidnapping. The father of-the 26 year old girl (Mary McElroy), carried on negotiations with the gang as if he were conducting a business transaction.
True to promise the gang freed the girl two hours after receiving the cash at the gate of a golf club.
“They were very polite and attentive,’’ said the girl. They gave me roses, magazines to read) and placed a in the basement room, together with an electric fan, easy chair and comfortable bed, whereon was spread clean linen. They even showed me how to work a machine-gun, “I learned a good deal about gang, sters. They *,*l4: ‘You .haven't -wonderful .father, and he .is doing a fine job trying to place men in work, butwhy should a man work for two dollars a day?’” When she was being taken from her prison in th© basement th© leader of the gang praised her behaviour and said that he would recommend her as a victim to other kidna.ppeis.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1933, Page 5
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228GIRL KIDNAPPED Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1933, Page 5
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