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Show SLATER IS WITNESS IN BISCAY TRIAL Massachusetts Man Tells of His Detention De-tention in a Chateau in Extortion Ex-tortion Hearing. MOULIX3, France, Thursday, July 26. James Slater of "Webster, Mass", today took the witness stand in the trial" of three persons who are accused of having illegally detained him An-dree An-dree Biscay, his wife, Anna Biscay, and ; Kavmond liarrau and pave testimony against the defendants. The accusation ! is that they induced Slater to go to a! chateau where he was held f o r m a n y I days while money was extorted from j him. i Slater related the story of his detention, deten-tion, during which he said he had been struck re i uted ly and also chained. He said that he was treated with the utmost brutality and that wounds were i inflicted frequently by the beatin-s J Barrau pave him. " J I i s detention lasted , more than three months. 1 The W'jnui'i in the case, the witness' testified, twice brandished a jioinard at ' him wilh one hand while in tlie oihr'-i she held out a check to he sipm-d. : |