Thrilling Escape
lone fight wjth bandits Killed Them With Bottle By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Heed. 9.5 a.m. MEXICO CITY, Tuesday. DHARLES BARBER, an American mine manager, who was v kidnapped on December 17 by bandits, has arrived here bruised and blood-stained. He tells a thrilling story of his escape last Wednesday. He heard his guards discussing *his proposed execution for Friday unless a ransom of £3,000 was paid. He leaped upon the guards armed with a steel r •!, and knocked out two. The third seized his rod, but Barber secured a beer bottle, with which, in a desperate struggle, he killed the remaining two. He then returned to the two first assailants, finished them, and escaped to the bush, where he spent three days wandering, in a terrible plight.—Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 1
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