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Waterbury Evening Democrat
Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut
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San Francisco resident B. S. Loomis was held captive by Mexican bandits near San Blas, Mexico, while returning from Tepic; he promised $200 ransom to save his life but later did not pay it and bought a rifle for protection.
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Held Up by Mexican Bandits But Did Not Settle.
San Francisco, July 24.—The Examiner to-day says:
Bound, gagged and at the mercy of Mexican bandits, B. S. Loomis, a San Franciscan, was held a prisoner in the mountains of Cerro de San Juan, near San Blas, Mexico. A promise of the payment of a ransom saved his life, for it was the intention of the robbers to kill him after they had stripped him of his effects. Loomis is the superintendent of a fruit company at San Blas, and is well known in this city.
In telling his experience, Loomis writes:
"While returning from Tepic I was held up by bandits and robbed of my effects. I was bound and gagged and then taken to a narrow canyon to be killed. I bought the bandits off with a promise to pay them $200, the money to be taken to a certain point on a certain day. They threatened to seize me on the plantation and kill me at night if I did not keep my promise. I did not keep the promise and instead of sending the money I purchased a rifle for my protection."
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Cerro De San Juan, Near San Blas, Mexico
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loomis was not killed; bandits intended to kill him after robbing him but accepted a promise of $200 ransom; loomis did not pay the ransom and purchased a rifle for protection instead.
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B. S. Loomis, superintendent of a fruit company at San Blas, was held up by Mexican bandits while returning from Tepic, robbed of his effects, bound and gagged, and taken to a narrow canyon to be killed; he bought off the bandits with a promise to pay $200 ransom at a certain point on a certain day, under threat of seizure and death if he failed to comply.