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Show Kidnapers Take Wrong Man From j Louisiana Hotel 8HKEVEPORT. Ea . Dec. f. While ono of their party, armed with a pistol, pis-tol, stood guard o"er persons who happened hap-pened to bo ln the lobby of a local hotel within sight of the city hall, five unmasked men abducted ltobert B. Royster, a local painter, from a room in the hotel today and with their victim vic-tim blindfolded and clad only ln his underclothing, took him ln an automobile auto-mobile to an Isolated Bpot several miles from tho city. Upon removing the bandage- they discovered he was not the man wanted want-ed and Immediately returned him unharmed un-harmed to the hotel It required about an hour and a half for tho trip to and from th- c..nntry and duilm: that period the guests In the lobby of tho hotel were held under guard by the silent armed man. nr. |