10
Tuesday, October 4,1977
University Daily Kansan
4.24 2015年12月31日
European kidnapers seize 2 tots
Rv The Associated Press
Kidnapers struck twice yesterday in
Sea, seizing the 5-year-old daughter of a
Bolivian tin millionaire in Switzerland and
the 4-year-old grandson of an Italian im-
pire.
Police in Geneva said the Bolivian girl, Granielle Ortiz, was on her way to school when two men knocked down the family chauffeur in front of the Ortiz home, bundled the girl into a car with Italian license plates and drove away.
The abductors later telephoned her parents to say they were holding the child, Geneva police inspector Marcel Murado told reporters. The child was taken and refused to elaborate. he inspected.
"We don't want to do anything to the kids," she said, and the family." Maurer said the kidnappers and the family." Maurer said.
THERE WAS NO immediate word of any contact from the kidnappers of the Italian boy, Giorgio Garbero, who was taken while playing outside his family's home in Turin. Police said three men sprayed a body boy with pepper spray and killed him and then took the boy away in a car.
Giorgiolo's grandfather, Orfeo Pianelli,
owns a company that makes industrial
trolleys. Pianelli also is president of
the Italian major league soccer club Torino of
Turtin. Giorgio is the only son of Pianelli's daughter.
Graziela is the daughter of Bolivian millionaire George Ortiz, descendant of the founder of what was once the world's largest private tin-mining empire.
ORTIZ WENT on Swiss television and appealed to the kidnappers not to harm him
daughter.
"Don't frighten her, don't drug her too heavily . . . police have promised they won't interfere." he said.
for an address. After knocking him down, they pulled the screaming girl from the limousine and drove off.
interfer, he said.
Inspector Maurer said Grazielle was in the back of the family car when the kid-napers distracted the chauffeur, asking him
INVESTIGATORS said traces of chloroform were found in the get-away car, located by police about one mile from the Ortiz home 30 minutes after the abduction.
It takes about five minutes to drive from the Ortiz residence to where the kidnap car was found and another ten minutes to the nearest border station to France.
Maurer said there was no trace of the abductors and inquiries were being made in France and Italy.
High Court decides cases
WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court yesterday declined to review hundreds of the appeals being heard inside or on court lower court claims. Among the court's actions, it
let stand rulings by Washington State courts that homosexuals are "immoral" and can be fired because of their sexual preferences.
- agreed to hear arguments challenging a lower court's ruling that a business interest
almost never can own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same community.
- refused to review the death sentences of Marcus Wayne Chenault, the convicted killer of a man who killed King Kig in 1972, or Erwin Charles Simmons, Nebraska mass murderer.
- said in effect that some of former President Richard Nixon's White House tape recordings might be released for possible use in civil suits.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP IN THE PRODUCTION OF CONCERTS?
If So, Sign Up This Week In The SUA Office For A Short Interview In One Of The Following Areas:
SPOT LIGHTS STAGE HANDS SECURITY
USHERS
OCT.6
OCT.10
OCT.10
OCT.11
HOMECOMING 1977!
ALLEN FIELD HOUSE / RESERVE SEATS Friday, Oct. 14 8:30 p.m.
$6 & $7 Tickets on Sale Soon!
An SUA & Concerts West Presentation