ALLEGED ABDUCTION.
WOMAN'S QUEER STORY.
CAPTURED WHEN BATHING.
PRISONER FOR NINE DAYS.
By Telegraph— AssociationCopyright. (Received 10.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. BRISBANE. Dec. 7. The police are investigating a r- narkable abduction story. Miss Watson, the keeper of a beauty parlour, went for a bathe on the morning of November 27. Her clothes were found on the beach and it was supposed that she had been drowned. On Wednesday night, however, she reappeared at a house in Sandgate, wearing only a gown over her bathing suit. She stated that she had been spirited away by a well-dressed man and women in a motor-boat and kept closely confined below. Otherwise she was well treated. After several days' cruising she managed to escape when the boat reached Sandgate. Miss Watson, besides being the keeper of a beauty parlour, writer stories for the cinematograph. The case is most mysterious. There is no apparent motive forthcoming for the alleged kidnapping or cutting short of Miss Watson's hair by her captor?. Police efforts have failed to discover any trace of the kidnappers, their motorboat or the boat in which Miss Watson is said to have escaped ashore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 11
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