BOUND AND GAGGED
AMERICAN PUBLISHER
STORY OF KIDNAPPING
NEW YORK, May 13
George Palmer Putnam, publisher, and husband of the late Amelia Earhart, was found bound and gagged in a vacant house in Bakersfleld, California, early this morning. He told the police that he had been kidnapped from his Hollywood home the previous night by two men who- spoke German. Mr. Putnam recently announced that he had received a letter threatening him with death unless he desisted from publishing an anti-Nazi book, "The Man Who Killed Hitler."
Mr. Putnam.told the sheriff that the men "slugged" him in his garage and drove him off in his own car.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 9
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