Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-27 | Page 1 | Bandit Holds 40 Americans for Ransom

BANDIT HOLDS 40 AMERICANS FOR RANSOM i Property Valued at Quarter Million Also In Hands of Mexican Rebel WASHINGTON". June 27 Forty American employes of the CortOZ "'11 company near Tamrlco and proport) ' valued at i quarter f a million dollars dol-lars are beln held hy n repel n-. n-. oral ransom of $lu'.0t)0 p- la paid 1 aci or.1;n to .". ine-saj' from i'iC American consul at Tamplco to the tate depatrniont. Th" report juI1 Gorozibe had de-j de-j manded payment of thi 15,000 pesos .within 4S hourn frm Yamen whn ' his forcox seized the property. Tin-mi Tin-mi ssapre said also there were no Mex-' Mex-' lean officials in the vicinity PROP! RTY SEIZED The dispatch Mas dated -Monday and gaid thai th' rebel (ftwiernl Gorozabe" had seized the company's property land was holding It with 240 well-! well-! armed men. Prompt Instructions Rrero sent by Hit- state department to the rcinbaisy in Hoxlco City and to the (ronipl at Tariinlco to urge the M xl-Ican xl-Ican auhorlties to take Immediate ac-i ac-i Hon for the protection of American Hyi . und property. BlErASKl SAFE MEXIQO i'ITV. .T.me 27. i By the Assoelateri Presa) Mnnuel Barceno. I Mexican lawyer, who was kidnaped together to-gether with A Bruce Blelakl, near I Guernavaca on Sunday. h;-s been re-leased re-leased and new6 Is momentarily ex-! ex-! pected of Blelaskj'fl freeuom. Kate udvlccsn from Cuernavaca nald Mr. Hie-laski Hie-laski was safe and that negotiations with th-- bandits were under u ij Mr. Blelaskl. former thief ..f the American ilepartinent of Justice Investigation In-vestigation luri-au and Senor Barcena. were prized while motoring with their1 wives The ransom Is bring paid on the or- der of Richmond Levering and company com-pany of New York, of whi. 1 Mi Hie.j laskl Is the head.