George Putnam Escapes Kidnapers And Returned Home -- (Left to Right) Rex Colem a close friend of Putnam, George Putnam, and Miss J. Berger secretary to Putnam, serving coffie after the return to his home. George Palmer Putnam husband of the late Amelia Earhart, world famous flyer, was kidnaped and taken to a vacant house in Bakersfield, A Calif. where he escapes his kidnapers, and reported to the Sheriff there the kidnap is believed to have been done by a Nazi Group.Putnamslife had recently been threatened for the publication of the book, "The Man Who Killed Hitler,". May 13, 1939. (Photo by ACME).