KIDNAPPING CASE
TWO RANSOM DEMANDS
LOS- ANGELES, May 12.
' The Get'tie kidnapping case was complicate* 3 today by the receipt of two ransoi a demands by the family, one for 75,110Q and.the other for 40,000 dollars. • All poliet l activities, were halted after the fir st- demand, with, the xelaA tives hastening arrangements to obtain funds to han td' them over to the kidnapper when the second demarid was telephoned.
Gettle's in* ralid wife, who is the mother of foujr children, suffered a collapse and fear, s are entertained for her life. ' *
A message Hi ited. May 10 stated that in the absence t if the customary ransom note, the police were mystified regarding the kidnap ping: o£ Mr. William' Gettle, a wealtl iy petroleum producer, from his suburb an home, early that morning. Two masked, men entered the grounds dvi ing- a garden, party,, and, at the pist« )1. pointy forced Mr. •Gettle to aecomp any them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 112, 14 May 1934, Page 9
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158KIDNAPPING CASE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 112, 14 May 1934, Page 9
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