MODERN TORTURE CHAM
BANKER KIDNAPPED, BOUND, GAGGED. Parts, April 16.—A remarkable case tbrtion, complicated by kidnapping fraudulent confession obtained by vi< came on for hearing before the Loir sizes at Orleans. Mm'e. Lefebvre, an old lady of in dent means, entrusted her interests country banker named Force. As a of disastrous speculation Mme. Le lost about £5000, which loss her two s doctor and a tradesman, attributed t lect on the part of the banker. They determined to recover the by compulsion, and laid a trap for M. When he arrived at the house the bi seized and searched the banker, hour hand and foot, and at night drove, hii lonely country residence where thei him unmercifully, and compelled him, a threat of toasting his feet at the 11 sign a confession that he had eml £120,000 of Mme. Lefebvres money. The brothers then left the banker if for three days and two nights, during they visited and ransacked his 1 When, he was set a* liberty M. Force i a complaint against his assailants, an were arrested. 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11986, 7 June 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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