DEATH FOR KIDNAPPING.
MAN SENTENCED IN GERMANY. BERLIN, June 30. Under the retrospective application of a new law, Edward Bottrip was sentenced to death at Bonn for kidnapping a boy of twelve and demanding a ransom. In a letter to the father Bottrip stated that the boy was trussed up in a bath and that the money must arrive before the bath was filled. The police, however, rescued the boy. Bottrip had previously been convicted of a similar offence.
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Wairarapa Age, 2 July 1936, Page 5
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