GIRLS KIDNAP ADDNIS

Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 15

GIRLS KIDNAP ADDNIS

THE SPELL OF HIS CHARMS Detectives of the Missing Persons Bureau of New York police headquarters were ordered recently to search all hotels in the Times Square area for a handsome youth of seventeen, described as " being held prisoner by four beautiful young women.” This is one of the strangest quests on which the police have been engaged, and the story of the missing young man and his fair captors resembles a romance of new Arabian Nights. The police, who have been harassed recently by the hunt for Agnes Tufverson, were at first disposed to be sceptical when agitated relatives of Jack Taft, of Brooklyn, told them ho had been Carried off by four girls of surpassing beauty. Jack’s brother, David, however, provided them with evidence which caused an alarm to be sent out from police headquarters over the teletype system. Fantastic though it may seem, the only theory of the youth’s abduction is that he was so good looking that he turned the heads of these lour girls and they decided to carry him off and keep him prisoner till he expressed a preference for one of them. Before he vanished, this Adonis of Brooklyn is reported to have expressed great fear of what two girls might do to him, one ol them being named Elaine. One morning a feminine voice called up David Taft to say: “If you want your brother, you’ll find him 'held cap- ‘ tive by four girls in an hotel between Forty-Second and Fifty-First street. 'Who am I? Don’t ask. I’m your friend Elaine.”

Next morning the call was repeated, and the informant telephoned: “ This is Elaine. I’m terribly disappointed in you. Why haven’t yon found your brother ? Hurry, or it will bo too late." The police traced these ‘telephone calls to the Times Square district. David Taft said that despite his youth his. brother had been persecuted by women of all ages who had fallen victims to his charms.