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Show MiLLIQHAiRE IS FGUKD H WORKING IN A MINE 0 OIL OPERATOR HELD UNDER ARMED GUARD RESCUED BY 11 .H WIFE LEADING POS8E. Houston, Tex After five months, J during' which It was generally believed 1 that J. M. Webb, thn millionaire oil 'iijH operator, hnd boon swallowed up by '''sH the hoi, he has been found by his liH family and has relumed homo. Prl-vntc Prl-vntc detectives have ascertained thnt the nlan wns drugged In Houston, rnr- '"iH tied lo a small placo near Ht. Lonls, and held there under an armed guard for a long period of time, He escaped, , jJ but nil the tlmo that had Intervened Il between his abduction and his return to his former self was a blank, and, ijH not knowing what bad happened, ''1 feared to return. He found employ- v. si - He Was Kept a Prisoner Under Guard. taHH ment In n mine In Joplln, Mo., where iaH ho wielded n shovel and held a drill Jl as a common workman for weeks, Recently ho wnH located by tbo own- er of the adjacent mine, J. II. I'utnnm jjH nnd when Mrs. Wobh was notified she headed a poena of Texans und res- fH cued her husband from his pooultar H position nnd has now returned with 'H him lo Houston, ' To cover their tracks the consplrn- tors are said to have carried bis 'isl clothes, containing his valuables, to iH Onlvestnn, nnd left thorn In a bath- 'H house, where they were found AMI- -H davits were secured from the boy, who wns supposed to have sold Ihn bath ticket, nnd from a young woman ,H who believed she bad seen Webb In H tho surf, to support tho contention uf 'jH death by drowning, il An attempt was made to collect bis iljl llfo Insurance held In the Now York iafl Llfo Insurance Company, but, payment inLH was refused and Mrs, Webb offered a reward of IMOO for Information lead- lf Ing to tho discovery of hor husband or his body. 1 Webb declared that ho docs not re- iial member a thing thnt happened nfler H he drove lo Houston on tho night ot -.H June 19 last until ho found himself cm . jaLfl the public road near Joplln, Mo. ''jkLIH |
