GIRL TORTURED.
Kidnapped Child in Iron “ Coffin.” TUCSON, May 14. Barbarity without a parallel, in these days, was inflicted by kidnappers upon the schoolgirl, June Robles, who was held for ransom in a pit, for £3OOO. The county attorney, Mr Houston, found her in the pit, which was carefully concealed by cactus and mesquite. He lifted a trapdoor over this living grave, saw June’s legs, and thought she was dead. She was in a kind of iron coffin, which would not allow her to stand erect. She had a gunny sack for a bed and a bath towel for a pillow. Her ankles were fastened to a chain run through a motor-car axle, so contrived that she could net free herself. The temperature was 110 in the open air and several degrees hotter in her iron box. Nail holes punched in the trapdoor provided just enough air to keep her from suffocating. June had not stood on her feet since being placed inside. It was 6ft long, 30in high and 30in wide. She could recline only in filth or raise herself, with her elbows scraping against the sharp framework as she turned.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20314, 25 May 1934, Page 1
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