THREATENED KIDNAPPING
MARY PICKFORD IN SECLUSION. HYPNOTIC ASSAILANTS FEARED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 7.5 p.m. New York, Jan. 27. Mary Pickford (Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks senr.), according to a United Press dispatch from Falmour, Massachusetts, is secluded there under a heavy guard after hurriedly leaving Boston to escape threatened kidnapping. She said she received six threatening notes and three similar telephone calls. She declined to reveal the details hut spoke vaguely of her fears that enemies would use hypnotism to take her a prisoner. She said, a young couple had repeatedly tried to see her, first at a theatre in New York and then at an hotel in Boston, wishing to give her mysterious important papers. She be • lieves this is a ruse to kidnap her. The authorities are inclined to think it is the work of cranks but are nevertheless taking precautions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 7
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