Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-03 | Page 1 | Kidnaped Men Are Located

MEN ARE lOCA TED Say They Were Beaten Beat Beat- en by Hooded Mob G GALLUP N M M. May 3 P A JP-A A New Ne NewYork NewYork York communist and a Philadelphia attorney r abducted from here by hooded hoodlums w were re found beaten up up as they described themselves themselves them them- selves and under treatment in a hospital hospital hos hos- pital pita north of here David Levinson the lawyer and Robert Minor l best known for his editorship editorship ed ed- ed of the Da Daily y Worker got in touch by telephone with the governor governor gover gover- nor of New Mexico Clyde Tingley Tingle at Santa Fe and word of their finding finding find find- ing reached here by roundabout channels The pair pall of men reported that the they had b been n slugged and abandoned abandond in inthe inthe inthe the desert where they were picked up by a government Indian service truck and taken to a Tohatchi N. N M. M hospital Tohatchi north of Gallup Is an Indian center about 20 miles distant Just as the first word that the men had dropped from irom sight came to Santa Fe nearly 15 hours earlier so did news of ot their whereabouts hereabouts come first to the capital Associates of the pair telephoned state authorities last night that they had been slugged slugged- and seized by masked men in iii the old Spanish plaza here Local authorities expressed skepticism noting that the disappear disappear- disappearance ance was not complained of to them ahead of Santa Fe I The go governor directed the dispatch of state police to Tohatchi to interview interview inter inter- vI view w the men and said aid the state of New Mexico 1 would make every e ef- ef to apprehend the guilty parties parties' in the beating of ot the pair