ADVENTURE IN MOTOR-CAR

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1931, Page 7

ADVENTURE IN MOTOR-CAR

GIRL TELLS STRANGE STORY. KIDNAPPED BY MOTORIST. A seventeen-year-old girl was carried off from Spalding, Lincolnshire, by a strange motorist and taken to North London. Miss Nellie Grunimitt, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Grummitt, of Stonegate, Spalding, the victim of the alarming experience, was found wandering about the streets of Hampstead by a Salvation Army lass, and was taken to a police station, where she told her story. Miss Grunimitt, a pleasant, wellbuilt girl, said she was walking along West Parade, on the outskirts of Spalding, about a-quarter to seven in the evening. A four-seater car was drawn up by the kerb, and the driver, a tall than wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a light mackintosh over a dark suit, was apparently looking at the tyres. As Miss Grunimitt approached, he straightened himself and sand: “Excuse me, Miss, but can you tell me where Alexandra Road is?” Before she could answer the man seized her, bundled her into the back of the car, got into the front and drove away. It was foggy at the time and there were not many people about, and no one saw what had happened. Miss Grunimitt was ,tery frightened, and started crying. Soon the car stopped, and she tried to open the door, but it was fastened. She started to climb over, to get out at the front, but the man slapped her face, pulled her hair and said: "Get back, you villain!” Then, apparently, Miss Grunimitt fainted, for she remembers no more of the journey to London, which lasted four hours. While the driver was attending to the car at Hampstead she jumped out and ran away.