CALIFORNIAN KIDNAPPING
MRS MEEK RETURNS HOME WAS RANSOM PAID? Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy rig ii MARYVILLE (California), September 5. Mrs Meek returned home unharmed. She said she escaped from a hideout while the kidnappers were absent, hut it was generally believed that she was released after the payment of 15,000d0l as ransom. A physician who examined her said she was suffering from shock, but had not been mistreated. ■ He quoted her as saying she had had only chocolate bars as food after her abduction. [A previous message stated that two white-masked gunmen, on entering her home at midnight, kidnapped Mrs W. R. Meek, who is prominent in social circles. After binding and gagging her husband they led her at the point of the gun to her husband’s car and drove off, saying: “You’ll get your wife back when we get lo.OOOdol.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23055, 6 September 1938, Page 9
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140CALIFORNIAN KIDNAPPING Evening Star, Issue 23055, 6 September 1938, Page 9
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