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Show SAYS HE WAS KIDNAPED Samuel S. Hlpley of Richmond, CaU lawyer, and suld to be a former Samo-an Samo-an prince, who has filed suit In Chicago Chi-cago for $50,000 against Cnpt. Waldo Evans, now commandant of the Great Lakes naval training station, and W. A. MacDonald, fr alleged false arrest and Imprisonment during the time Evans Ev-ans was naval governor of American Samoa. Ripley alleges he sailed from San Francisco on the S. S. Sonoma In 1021 and on reaching Tago Pago paid several deposits as some sort of custom payments and later was confronted con-fronted by Evnns, MacDonald, and a man "who purported to be a customs official,'' and was placed under armed guard and held a prisoner. Lnter, he alleges, he was put aboard the vessel again nnd for 80 days was a virtual prisoner, being released only when the vessel returned to Honolulu. |