MARY PICKFORD’S FEARS
THREATENED WITH KIDNAPPING HEAVILY GUARDED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK. January 27. Mary Pickford, according to a United Press despatch from Falmouth, Massachusetts, is secluded there under 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 the 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 her, first at a theatre in New York, and then at an 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 work of cranks, but are nevertheless taking precautions.
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Evening Star, Issue 21631, 29 January 1934, Page 9
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