KIDNAPPING OF JOHN FACTOR.
RELEASE IN SUBURB OF CHICAGO. (Received July 13, 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 12. A, message from Lagrange, a suburb of Chicago, states that John Factor, who was kidnapped on July 1 by an armed gang, was freed there to-night. He appeared at the police station at Lagrange at midnight and said he had been released a few minutes before. Reports were immediately circulated that the 200,000 dollar ransom demanded had been paid by his family. Factor was driven to a tramline in a motor-car escorted by two others loaded with hoodlums, released, and directed to the police station. Later he was taken to his hotel, where he was placed under the care of a doctor, who said that he was suffering from a nervous breakdown. [Factor is wanted in England on fraud charges. The British consular representative in Chicago recently alleged that the kidnapping was a hoax, and that Factor had actually escaped fipm America tQevpde extradition.] j
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 12
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