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Show UU 0 PUBLISHER ESCAPES FROM KIDNAPING BAND ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Jan 8. Jacquel Vlllard. publisher of "The Free Ago." who disappeared In Chicago. Decern-bar Decern-bar 27, last, arrived at his home at 8:30 o'clock this morning Mr Vljj lard refused to make a statement, but detectives announced he had been i-tained i-tained in Chicago by kidnapers. Mr. Vlllard, according to delecth-'was delecth-'was the man who cried out for asp 1st-ance 1st-ance in a remote section of Chicago. last night, and who finally was picked up b3 CI taxlcali driver Mr. Yiilard legless. Detectlveg explained Villard's ah- ductors probably hsvd feared detection ail'd were removing him to a, suburb near Chicago when they suddenly changed their minds and left him 1 -lug on an automobile rug. The chauffeur drovs Mr. Vlllard to a railroad station where he boarded a train for St. Louis, detectives added, oo 1 |