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Show MISSING WOMAN IS HELD FOR r RANSOM LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 27. Mrs. Gladys Wlthcrcll, wire of O. S. Wtthcrcll, president of a loan and Investment company, who disappeared disappear-ed from her homo hero Tuesday night, has been kldnnycd and Is being be-ing held for ransom, according to communications received by relatives rela-tives today and believed bona fide by the police. While the pollco were rotlceht, it) was said, the husband had received communications from the alleged kidnappers, demanding several thousand thou-sand dollars and threatening to kill Mrs WIthorell unless tho money was paid. It was said also that an appeal had been received Indirectly from hor begging for help. Tho communication from tho alleged al-leged (kidnappers was said to contain a threat against Mrs. Wlthcrcll's .Wo Bhould tho' demand for ransom and Its nltcrnatlvo of death to tho woman bo mado public. Mrs. Wlthcrcll who Is 23 years of ago, was said to havo received a call Tuesday night from a man who told her thoro had been an aulomobllo accident nearby and thnt one ot the . .... victims was calling for her., ... t She asked neighbors to caro ror her 18-months-old baby and departed with tho man. aaaaaaoaoaoaoaoaoao oo ooooooo Her husband offered a reward of $500 for any Information as to her whereabouts Ho and his father A. J. WIthorell. a banker, camo horo scvoral years ago from Chicago, where tho older WIthorell was connected with financial finan-cial Institutions. |