Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — YOUNG WOMAN IS KIDNAPED [ARTICLE]

YOUNG WOMAN IS KIDNAPED

Masked Bahdits Gag and Beat Victim When She Refuses to Pay $2,000 Ransom. New Orleans, July 19.—Following the receipt of threatening “black hand" letters demanding $2,000, which she ignored, Miss Bertha Cornier, a young business woman of this city, was kidnaped by masked bandits. She was found later bound and gagged in the rear of an abandoned house where her captors, after giving her a cruel beating, left her. She is in a serious condition. After kidnaping her the bandits demanded $2,000 for her release. Despairing of securing that amount they contented themselves with terribly abusing the defenseless girl.