Mexico City, Sept. 13.
Federal sok are pursuing bandits who are holding prisoner Mr. Jacob Rosenthal, a retired New York merchant, after holding up a car in which he was motoring with a party, including three other Americans, 40 miles from Mexico City. As the party was returning from the seaside resort of Cuernavaea, the bandits levelled their rifles and ordered the car to stop. They took all the: money and jewels in possession of the party and seized Mr. Rosenthal, dragging him to the neighbouring' woods.
It is a curious fact that _no ransom hasbeen demanded. The authorities are puzzled. why Mr. Rosenthal specially was selected as jo prisoner—Reuter,
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