KIDNAPPED GIRL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 25, 9 November 1934, Page 5

KIDNAPPED GIRL.

CONCEALED IN A DESERT. ARREST AFTER SIX MONTHS. (United Press Association—Copyright). NEW YORK, November .8.. A message from Tuscon (Arizona) states that Oscar Robson was arrested to-day and charged with; kidnapping June Robles on April 25. The' Federal authorities claim to hold evidence that Robson was the writer of notes demanding a ransom. - • '■ r \ Snatched into a passing motor-car on • April 25 of this year, June Robles, the six-year-old daughter of a wealthy cattle-rancher, spent 19 days in what' was practically a grave and had been given up for dead before she was rescued. On the night of May 14 she was discovered Tin an emaciated condition and half-buried in a hole in the Arizona Desert. -'. •• . How the girl victim of the kidnap-, ping was rescued was related by her uncle, Carlos Robles, county attorney, of Tuscon, Arizona. He said he discovered his niece lying in a trench 3ft deep, 2-Jft wide and 6ft long. ..The family had' virtually abandoned all hope of ever seeing her again. ~' •;';- . The. previous day the Governor of Arizona had received a Mysterious let--, ter from Chicago, written in the same handwriting as an earlier demand for a ransom of;£3000. It gave detailed instructions how to find the girl. Accompanied by another attorney (Mi Clarence Houston), Mr Carlos Robles accordingly, set out to search the desert. , "We reached the region indicated by the crude map in the letter," he said, "and searched separately for three hours, Suddenly I heard Houston call me. I saw him go down on his knees near a thick clump of cactus. When I saw him. pick up a iwhite bundle L thought June was dead." The trench in which the girl 'was;; found was sheltered from the blazing sunshine by dirty sacking.'and cactus leaves. The aperture was so small that Mr Houston could not enter. Lying near the entrance was*a key winch he threw in, and the girl hereelf unlocked the padlocks attached to the heavy chains to which she was bound. • She was sucking an orange when she was discovered. Her skin wag severely burned by the sun, but she was suffering from a slight chill from the cold desert nights. Her ankles were badly . chafed by the chains. For food she can have had only water, stale.bread and a; few vegetables. Her first words were, "I want Mamma." i «.> '