TO ESCAPE FROM U.S. GANGSTERS.
I When the Monterey sailed from J J San Francisco she carried Mr i l Kenneth Wakefield and his wife, j 1 who created a sensation by ad- ( [ mitting they were about to seek I l refuge in Australia, and were jj jj fleeing from American gangsters, a i Mr Wakefield, who is the proprie- jj a tor of a famous Poll House, a hos- B jj telry at Whatman, Mass., related « i some harrowing experiences. He jj ■ said he had been terrorised while i q in bed by bandits, who, at the * b point of the revolver, forced him t jto surrender money. Mr Wake- l i field expects to remain in Austra- J J lia for three months. He hopes ■ J in the meantime the U.S. Govern- * I ment will conquer banditry. jj
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Northern Advocate, 9 January 1936, Page 7
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