KIDNAPPING CASE
ESCAPED CONVICTS’ CRIME. MAN HELD AS HOSTAGE. LATER RELEASED UNINJURED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received July 17, 8.5 a.in. NEW YORK, July 16.
A message Irom Allen, Oklahoma, says that three armed bandits, Peter Rexler, Fred Tindol and Charlie Chapman, who escaped from a Texas prison on July 8, kidnapped Mr Baird Markham, jtinr., aged 21 the son of a wealthy oil man, from the wells where he was working when on vacation from Yale. He was forced into a stolen motor-car and held as a hostage, but later was released unharmed. Posses of police are guarding and searching the roads throughout the State.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 9
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