AUSTRALIAN KIDNAPPING
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Nov. 23. A country schoolteacher, Miss Mary Elizabeth Gibbs, aged 20, told the Melbourne City Court yesterday that two kidnappers had said she was worth slm to them. Miss Gibbs, who was kidnapped, along with her six girl pupils, from the tiny Faraday State School, about 70 miles from Melbourne, on October 6, was giving evidence on the second day of the hearing of charges against Robert Clyde Boland, aged 32, and Edwin John Eastwood, aged 21, who are accused of kidnapping the seven, and demanding slm ransom. No pleas have been taken. Miss Gibbs told the Court that the kidnappers showed her a bag full of chains and padlocks which they said they would use if she and the children did not go with them. When she told the younger man that he was nothing but an animal, he replied: "Funny you should mention that — my wife calls me an animal, too.”
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33083, 25 November 1972, Page 17
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