GIRLS KIDNAP ADONIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1934, Page 2

GIRLS KIDNAP ADONIS

SPELL OF HIS CHARMS. Detectives o£ the Missing Persons Bureau of Mew York police headquarters were ordered recently to search all hotels in the Times Square area for a handsome youth of 17, 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 he had' been carried pff 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 tho heads of these four girls, and they decided to carry him off and keep him prisoner till he expressed a s preference for one of them. Before he - vanished, this Adonis of Brooklyn is i reported to have expressed great fear ’ of what two girls might do to him, one s of them being named Elaine. I One morning a feminine voice called s up David Taft to say: “If you want s your brother, you’ll find him held cap- ‘ tive by four girls in an hotel between ' Forty-Second and Fifty-First Street. ■ Wlfoaml? 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 you found your ! brother? Hurry, or it will be 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. '