“VERY POLITE”
KANSAS KIDNAPPERS
HOW THEY 'TREATED SOCIAL
CAPTIVE
(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Hoc May 29, 11.34 p.m.) VANCOUVER, May 29 Kansas City has niado new history in kidnapping. It was written hv a gang wlio abducted the. socially prominent daughter of a city manager. They paid her extreme courtesies during her seventeen hours’ detention before her father willingly paid 30,000 dollars ransom. The newspapers refrained from mentioning tho kidnapping while the father of the 26-year-old girl. Mary McElio.', carried on negotiations with the gang as if he was conducting a businoss transaction. True to its- promise, lire gang freed the girl two hours after receiving the cash at the gate of a golf club. - “They were very polite and attentive” said tire girl. “They gave me i oses. also magazines t 0 read and placed a radio in the basement room, •also an elect riei fan and an easy chair, and a comfortable bed, wholeon was spread clean linen. They even showed modiow Lu work a machine gun. 1 learned a good deal about gangsters. They said ‘You have a wonderful father. He is doing a fine job trying to place men in work,, but why should a man work tor two dollars a day?” When she was being taken from her prison basement, the leader of tb c gang praised her behaviour and said that h e would recommend her as a victim to other kidnappers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11957, 30 May 1933, Page 5
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