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icevn,TELLS ODD STORYf -led Associated Press),a_ Lawrence, .Mass., June 30.—A story :ed of having been kidnapped by me.ni-y. bers of the Ku ldu* Xian, kept two weeks in a camp near Plaistow. X. H., turned loose last Thursday after being- branded, with the letter K was m t0^ 'by Nelson Burroughs of Roches-:d, Ier N. H., here today.* He disappeared be from his home about three weeks ago. or Burroughs said that on June 11 he ac-e_ cepted the offer'of an automobile ridea_ from Dover to Rochester. While on the in way he asserted the man who was driving the automobile suggested that 'they visit a camp w-here liquor could be obtained. He said he lost consciousness after drinking there and of When he recovered found himself a ie prisoner. ‘\Last Thursday three hoofl-ed men came to me, Burroughs con-ie tinned, and said they could not keep me in the camp any longer. They branded a K on my forehead and one on each breast and turned me loose with a warning that I would be killed ie 1 returned to Rochester. The night Je before I heard men in the next room f to mme say that they were going to ,n ’get me’ because I. was a former Protestant who had joined the Roman Cathohc church, because my wife hatl turned Catholic to marry me and because I had founded the first Knights of Columbus council in Rochester.j Rochester, June 30—The reputation of Nelson Burroughs is said to beaueh here that his story would be be-Jieved.hitrPihiretcCn
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Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US
Mon, Jun 30, 1924
Page 4
Full Page
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