“Jake the Barber” Well Trimmed

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1933, Page 8

“Jake the Barber” Well Trimmed

REPORTED PAYMENT OF 200,000-DQLLAR RANSOM

SUFFERING FROM NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Received Thursday, 7 pan. NEW YORK, July 12,

from Lagrange, Illinois, states that John Factor, the market •jjMWalator, who was kidnapped on July i by an armed gang, was freed to-night in that suburb.

Factor appeared at the police station at Lagrange at midnight to-night. He said he had been released by his abductors a few minutes before. Reports were immediately circulated that a 200,000-dollar ransom had been paid by the family. Factor was driven to a street-car line in a machine escorted by two automobiles loaded with hoodlums. He was then released and directed to the police station.

Later he returned to an hoted wnere he was placed under the care of a physician who said he was suffering from a nervous breakdown.

The notorious company swindler was kidnapped just when on the point of being arrested under an extradition warrant from England where his operations are said to have extracted millions from the gullible people. The British Consul at Chicago declared that the kidnapping was a fake to dodge arrest. Perhaps the attack of nerves will also be suspect.