GIRL TORTURED
CONCEALED IN IRON BOX. Tucson (Arizona), May 3.8. 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 a 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, whcih 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 not free herself. The temnerature 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 keen her from suffocating. June had not stood on her feet since being placed inside. It was six feet long, 30. inches high, and 30 inches wide. She could recline only in filth or raise herself with her elbows scraping against the sharp framework as she turned.
Mistress: What did Mrs. Hobbs say when you told her I was out? Maid: She just smiled and said, "Friday's not always an unlucky day."
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3479, 14 June 1934, Page 7
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