ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION.
O A LONDON LEVANTER SEIZED. [united press association.! Received August 19, 1 a.m. London, August 17. The Pall Mall Gazette gives publication to the statement that a sum of £6000 was privately subscribed for the purpose of abducting from Buenos Ayres Mr J. Spencer Balfour, es-M.P., who is wanted m England to answer charges of fraud m connection with the management of several Building Societies, of which he was managing director. Four victims of the Liberator Building Society undertook the work and Balfour was secured by them. He was greatly terrified and applied to the Argentine Republic for protection.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 204, 19 August 1893, Page 2
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101ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION. Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 204, 19 August 1893, Page 2
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