LIFE IMPRISONMENT
AMERICAN KIDNAPPERS LOS ANGELES, May lb. Three kidnappers of Mr, William Gettle, tho oil mining millionaire who was’found alive, after being held for £15,000 ransom, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to life imprisonment. The State Prosecutor gave them the option of pleading giuilty or demanding a jury trial, which might send them to the electric chair. The prisoners chose the former and the judge immediately imposed sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 17 May 1934, Page 5
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69LIFE IMPRISONMENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18399, 17 May 1934, Page 5
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