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Kidnapping Romance Ends in Nuptials on Fifth Avenue
In New York a rich suitor Frank Townsend entices carriage driver James to relinquish the reins and abduct Miss Annette Van Deveer. She is confined, berated, and courted with ransom demands until she agrees to marry Townsend. The couple wed amid New York society, while most remain unaware of how consent was extracted.
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Merrick Augour