BOETTCHER KIDNAPPING
ABDUCTORS RECEIVE £12,000 VICTIM TELLS EXPERIENCES IN BASEMENT FOR 16 DAYS STORY OF THE RENDEZVOUS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Denver (Colorado), March 2. A ransom of £12,000 was paid shortly before Charles Boettcher junior, aged 31, one of the most wealthy and prominent citizens of Denver, who was kidnapped on February *3, was released on Wednesday night. It is revealed that Dr. John Foster.. a young physician and friend of the kidnapped broker, kept a rendezvous with the abductors on behalf of Claude K. Boettcher, the multi-millionaire father of the kidnapped man. Foster drove to a designated spot near the municipal air route, where the kidnappers were waiting. Though they remained out of sight themselves they allowed Dr. Foster to get a glimpse of the blindfolded victim. Dr. Foster dropped a bag containing the money and raced for Denver to inform Boettcher’s family. Boettcher, who is a friend of Colonel Lindbergh, described the kidnapping as “sixteen days and nights of blackness, discomfort and threats.” “Thank God it’s over,” he said. “Where I was held and by whom I don’t know. It appeared to be the basement of soma house 18 hours by fast automobile from Denver. The abductors treated me as gently as possible under the circum* stances. “About 11 p m. on February 12 the wife and I had just returned home. I started to drive, into the garage when two men in a small sedan drove up. Both were armed, and put me in their car and drove away. They put adhesive tape over my eyes and roped my wrists,” Boettcher said.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1933, Page 7
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