Newspaper Writer Tarred And Feathered
(Received 10.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 25
Because they objected l to some of his items, a group described as aristocratic Virginian sportsmen, kidnapped Count Igor Cassini, a society columnist, and drove him to a backwoods road, where they stripped him, smeared him with two tins of tar, emptied a box of feathers over him, and turned him loose.
Count Cassini was taken to hospital, suffering from bruises and shock, and doctors worked on him for three hours with kerosene and ether to remove the 'tar.
Count Cassini is a grandson of a former Russian Ambassador to the United States. He is demanding the men’s arrest on a charge of kidnapping. In Virginia, the penalty for kidnapping is death.
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Northern Advocate, 27 June 1939, Page 10
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