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July 31, 1933

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RETURNS UNHURT AT 4 A.M.; Freed in Bronx, Family Says -- Albany Hears Another Version. RANSOM PAID ON FRIDAY Abductors Changed Marked Bills at Bank Here, but Money Is Considered a Clue. HE FACED DEATH THREAT District Attorney in Touch in the Dealings -- Two Men Held for Questioning. O'CONNELL IS FREED ON $40,000 RANSOM

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Freed and returned to Helderberg Mt camp of uncle; $40,000 ransom reptd paid; Dist Atty Delaney reptd in touch with dealings; uncle describes captivity; 2 men held for questioning; illus of camp; por

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Cees Nooteboom

1933Cees Nooteboom, Dutch journalist, author, and poet[โ€ ]

Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.