£20,000 RANSOM. NEW YORK, April 20. The Chicago city police have- rescued Mr Thomas Gaynor, a rich motor-ear dealer, who was kidnapped a week ago ant! held to ransom for £20,000". Acting on a hint they received several detectives, armed with machine guns and shotguns made a dramatic expedition out of the city at midnight. They surrounded a little house in which Mr Gaynor was imprisoned, and his captors surrendered without a fight. When the rescue had been effected the detectives telephoned to headquarters: “We. have got the gang. They are tlio Detroit mob that lias been working So successfully for more than a year.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1928, Page 4
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