KIDNAPPING A HOAX
Girl Found In Chicago iN.Z Press Association —Copyright) CHICAGO, July 26. A pretty blonde debutante admitted yesterday that her story of having been kidnanped from a New Jersey airport, bound, gagged, and driven 900 miles to Chicago, was a hoax. The 21-year-old girl, Jacqueline Gay Hart, told her father and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that there had not been any abduction
The father, Mr Ralph Hart, executive vice-president of Col-gate-Palmolive Company, said the girl’s story might have been a recurrence of “the same kind of imaginary dreams" she had following a motoring accident two years ago. Miss Hart, who was to marry Mr Stanley Gaines of West Virginia on August 29, disappeared from Newark airport on Tuesday night after seeing her fiance off on a plane. Her story was that two men kidnapped her from the airport car park, tied her up, blindfolded her, threw her into the back seat of a car, and drove for hours.
The story she told indicated that the two men planned to hold her for ransom, but found the situation “too hot” She was found by police in Chicago’s Grant Park.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28958, 28 July 1959, Page 18
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