BATHER ABDUCTED
BEAUTY SPECIALIST’S STORY. IMPRISONED IN MOTOR BOAT. (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association) BRISBANE, December 7. The police are investigating the remarkable abduction story of Miss AVatson, keejier of a beauty parlour. She went for a bathe on the morning of November 27. Her clothes were found on the beach, and she was supposed to have been drowned, till AYednesday njight, when she ?e--appeared at a house in Sandgate, wearing only ?. gown over her bathing suit. She stated she had been spirited away by a. well-dressed man and woman in a motor boat, and kept closely confined below. Otherwise, she was well treated. After several clays cruising she managed to escape, when the boat reached Sandgate. Miss Watson, besides being the keeper of a beauty parlour, writes movie picture stories. The case £s surrounded by mystery. No apparent motive is forthcoming for the alleged kidnapping or the catting short of Aliss Watson's hair by her captors. The police efforts have failed to discover any trace of the kidnappers, or their motor boat or .the boat wherein Aliss AVatson is said to have escaped ashore.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1923, Page 5
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