The Peculiar Kidnapping of Beer Tycoon John Labatt
by
Susan Goldenberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of ex-rumrunners, desperate in the days following prohibition and the Great Depression, were hoping for a big payday. This bizarre true...