HEAVY RANSOM
FACTOR RELEASED
United Prees Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
NEW YORK, July 12
A message from La Grange, in Illinois. states that John Factor, the market speculator, who was kidnapped on July Ist by an armed gang, was freed to-night in that suburb. He s'aid that he had been released by liis abductors a few minutes before.
Reports were immediately circulated that two hundred thousand dollars of a ransom had been paid by his family. Factor was driven to ,a street-car line in - a machine, it being escorted by two automobiles leaded with hood-' lums. Hei was then released and was directed to the police station. Later he' was returned to an hotel i where he w'n? placed under the care of a physician, who said that he was suffering from a nervous breakdown.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1933, Page 5
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