Girl Is Kidnaped On Way To Work

1920

PRETTY MISS OF 20 WHISKED AWAY IN CAR.

Sees Another Abducted Woman in Auto — Is Thrown Out Bruised and Frightened.

ROCHESTER, New York. — The movies missed a thriller when pretty Hilda Gresens, 20, was kidnaped by three men. The girl was carried a mile in a closed taxicab when she was thrown into the street. The police have made no progress in investigating the outrage, inasmuch as the girl was so badly frightened and misused she was unable to give a reasonable description of her assailants.

Miss Gresens is employed in a factory. She was on her way to work when attacked. She had reached a street near the factory, when an automobile drew up to the curb and two men alighted. The girl was seized and forced into the car despite her struggles and screams for help.

Sees Another Girl.

In the car, Miss Gresens claims, was another girl, who apparently was drugged, as she appeared to be dazed and made no effort to help herself in any way. The curtains of the machine were drawn tightly, and she said she did not know what route the car took after she had been dragged inside of it.

When she struck the pavement, she realized that she had been hurt, and she fainted soon after. How long she lay in a vacant lot in Hollenbeck street she did not know, but when she came to she found herself more than a mile from home and some distance from any house. She lay in the lot fully an hour before regaining her senses.

Search for Man.

Miss Gresens' knees are bruised and her right side was wrenched when she was pushed from the taxicab.

The police are searching for a young man who showed Miss Gresens much attention at a dance hall at Sea Breeze two weeks ago, and who became so demonstrative that the girl was forced to leave the hall. She claims the man had written her many notes, telephoned her and called at her home on two occasions in an automobile since that time. The girl says the man wanted her to elope with him.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 5.