Kidnapped for Ransom
INDIAN MERCHANT MURDERED. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA, July 17. The first caso of kidnapping for ransom in Bombay was revealed yesterday when tho murdered body of a wealthy Guzerati merchant, Himat Lai, was found on the foreshore. Himat Lai left his office at 9 in the morning. Shortly afterwards a clerk received an ultimatum that unless five thousand rupees were deposited at a certain spot he would be killed. The clerk informed the police, but apparently too lato to prevent the murder.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7212, 19 July 1933, Page 7
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