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Show -w TORN FROM HIS BRIDE AND THRUST INTO JAIL New York Nov. 2ti. Iewls H Ac ton of inland, Ore., and Laredo, 'Tr, arrived here today from Sonth America and told a thrilling tAle of being torn from his bride of less than a year and then thrown into Jail 1 in Rio de Janeiro Acton said he had been In the real estate buslnens n Buenos Avres and went to Rio on October 6. the next day while talking to friends he savR be was arrested and taken to Jail without belns Informed of tho charge acalnst him After a day or two I was told I was charged with murder and white Slavery," said Acton. "I wa? then pent back to jail, where I was placed in a little cell with twenty men. wome and children. The conditions there were unspeakable. Several of the prisoners died or starvation and r 'he children were smothered, as we frequently slept three deep. "I was released on October and I found my wife, who was wealth v, had left for Germanv on the dav I was imprisoned and had used her in- I fluence In Germanv to secure mv release." |