VICTIM KILLED
AMERICAN KIDNAPPERS’ CRIME
40,000 dol, ransom Demanded
(United Press Association— By Electri# Telegraph—Copyright)
’ SAN .JOSE (California), Nov, 16, Brooke Hart, aged 22, a graduate of the University of Santa Clara, and the son of a wealthy family, was kidnapped and killed last -Thursday, by two men. One of them, allegedly confessed to-day. Thomas Thurmond is the one who confessed, and he implicated Jack Holmes, r.n unemployed petrol worker.
According to a story that has purportedly been, told by Thurmond, Hart was seized shortly after he left his family department store to meet his fathejr at a club. kidnappers forced the youth to drive them to an isolated spot, where his arms were pinioned. He was struck on the head with a brick. Then they trussed him, and his body was thrown into water from a bridge.
Thurmond stated lie and his accomplice then drove back toi San Francisco, where they telephoned to the Hart heme, demanding thousand dollars as a ransom.
The body of the victim, however, has not yet been recovered. The authorities have indicated that they fear that detection prompted the kidnappers to slay Hart.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1933, Page 5
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