FILM STAR’S FEAR.
THREAT OF KIDNAPPING. MARY PICKFORD GUARDED. United Press Association— Copyright). NEW YORK, January 27. -Mary Pickford, according ±o a United Press dispatch from Falmouth, Massachusetts, is secluded there under a heavy guard, after hurriedly leaving Boston to escape threatened kidnapping. . - . She said she had received six threatening notes and three telephone calls. She declined to reveal details, but spoke vaguely of fears that her enemies would use hypnotism to take her prisoner. She said a young couple had repeatedly tried to see hoi’, first at a theatre in New Yoi’k, and then at a hotel in Boston, wishing to give her mysterious important papers. She believes this is a ruse to kidnap her. The authorities are inclined to think it is the woi'k of cranks hut are nevertheless taking precautions.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 92, 29 January 1934, Page 6
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