AMERICAN KIDNAPPING
♦ kvam;l'.i isr i:i:i.i;\ski> ( Revived August IT !I 15 I NKW YOKK. 1 A message li'nm Nashville (Tennessee) stales that the; kidnapping of the Rev. Mr Askew, an evangelist. was solved when he appeam nt the puiice station after havini been missing for se\'crai days. 11' sairl he had been held by kidnappers. but for some reason was released. though he was no! await •hat anv ransom iiad been p;tid. NO RANSOM PAID FOR liKEWKR i Received August IT T4O p.m.) HAMILTON (Ontario i. Aug. IT A close friend of the Labat family revealed to-day that tin kidnapped brewer. for scvera hours on Wednesday night wa forced to sit and hear his abductorfrightened by police activities, dis cuss how to kill him and dispose o tlie body. Next, day his fears wen allayed when a confederate re polled that the police were workin, on false clues. The kidnappers wen so frightened, however, that the; released him without ransom.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21247, 20 August 1934, Page 11
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