ESCAPE FROM BANDITS
ADVENTURE IN MEXICO. DESPERATE FIGHT WITH GUARDS (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 9.5 a.m.) ("Sun.") MEXICO CITY, Jan. 10. Mr. Charles Barber, an American mine manager, who was kidnapped on December 17 by bandits, has arrived here, bruised and blood-stained. Mr Barber tells a thrilling story of his escape last Wednesday. He heard the guards discussing his proposed execution for Friday unless a ransom of £3OOO was paid. He leaped upon the guards, armed with a steel rod, and! knocked out two. A third seized his rod, but Mr Barber secured a bottle, with which, in a desperate struggle, he* killed the remaining two. He then tnrned to his two first assailants and* finished them. He escaped to the bush, in which he spent three days' wandering in a terrible plight.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 77, 11 January 1928, Page 4
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