DEATH THREAT
FOLLOWED BY ASSAULT & KIDNAPPING TREATMENT OF AMERICAN PUBLISHER. PRODUCTION OF ANTI-NAZI BOOK. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. BAKERSFIELD (Calif.), May 13. George Palmer Putnam, publisher and husband of the late Amelia Earhart, was found bound and gagged in a vacant house early this morning. He told the police he had been kidnapped from his Hollywood home the previous night by two men who spoke German. Mr Putnam recently announced that he had received a letter threatening death unless he desisted from publishing an anti-Nazi book,“The Man Who Killed Hitler.” Mr Putnam told the sheriff that the men “slugged” him in his garage and drove him off in his own car.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1939, Page 5
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