Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1908 — Murdered by His Kidnapers. [ARTICLE]

Murdered by His Kidnapers.

The discovery in the reservor In Central park In New York, of the body of John Peter Heins, a wealthy man who bad been strangely missing for six months, revealed a tragedy of deep mystery. There are evidences Heins had been held captive for ransom by a desperate gang of men and that when their demands upon the wife for the payment of a large sum of money were not met he was murdered and his body cast into the reservoir.