The Archive · 1896

Kidnapping in Caution

The trade of the kidnapper flourishes in the City of Rams, and young girls cannot, safely go about without an escort. A case of abduction has just ocewrred which shows how these rufiinns carry on their avocation. On the Ist inst. three girls, accompanied by several maid-servants, went to a photographers to get their portrait taken. They been in the shop only a tew minutes when seven men broke rudely in, seized the maidens, forced them to enter sedan chains which they had in waiting, and carried them off. "It is believed that the abducted girls have been sold to houses of ill-fame, but there is at present no clue to their whereabouts.

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