The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-25
GIRL A CAPTIVE
IN BOLD CRIME
Long Sought For Young
Woman Recovered By
Detectives.
"Please Get Me Out of
Here" Her Cry in
Letter.

NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-The Brook
lyn police are holding for examination
two men suspected of being guilty OF
one OF the boldest crimes against wom-
en- recently recorded. Their arrest fol-
lowed what the police learned when
they broke into room IN a Mermaid
avenue resort at Coney Island and found
a girl captive who turned out to be
May Schick, OF Newark. Who has been
sought for by relatives and the police
for the past three weeks.
May Schnick. seventeen years old. who
was a servant at SCI Parker street.
Newark, left there three weeks ago, for
an excursion to Coney Island. with a
friend named Lily ConkIin. and did not
return AS the days went on, her
grandmother, Mrs. Sophie Fuller, Of IS
Ndontrose avenue, Newark. became CON
WINGED that the girl had Been kidnapped.
The police were inclined TO believe in
her theory. A sharp watch was kept
about the Coney Island dives. Nothing
came OF It, There was not a sign that
the girl was alive until three days
ago, when the grandmother received n
hastily scrubbed note from the missing
girl
"God Knows WheTe!"
Please. send and get me out or here
1t said. God knows where I am
somewhere IN Coney Island Two men
are keeping me locked up"
The note told Of the abuse and bru-
tality 10 which the girl was being sub
jected. 1t had been written hurriedly.
at a moment when both the girls op-
pressors were absent, and slipped
through the crack Of the locked door to
q sweeper in the hallway, who put
stamp on It and mailed IL secretly. The
grandmother lost no time in passing the
letter over TO the police. as an assurance
that the girl was stin alive and might
be found. j turned out TO De the means
Of finding her. although il bore no men
ton OF the address from which it was
sent and the police had in 1t their only
lead 20 the girls prison The note was
not written on letter paper but scrib-
tied across the front OF a Coney Island
picture postal card.
Detectives Know Prison.
When Detective Sergeant Frank Lar
kin Of the Jersey City police went over
with il and consulted the Brooklyn de-
tective bureau. Detectives Frank Nc
Donald and Joe SanQuinetti decided that
they could find the neighbour God of the
Girls prison by the store where the pic
ture card was sold This meant a pa
tent search among the Coney Island
shops. The three men set 10 work.
and after two days close examination
Ct many stocks of picture cards found
the place where they believed the card
been sold. It was near row OF resorts
Of unsavory name
These the detectives proceeded 10
search. Room after room was found
unlocked. The detectives came al last
10 a locked door, and behind II they
found May schick alone. When able
she told them Of the treatment she had
received She said she had been de-
ooyed TO a room by two men while ask
ing her way 10 The cars on the night
Of her trip TO Coney. She was parted
in the crowd from her girl friend and
lost her way. A man OF whom she
inquired led her of, promising TO show
her the way home, and threw her into
a doorway as they passed.
Under Lock and Key.
She had been brutaIly abused. she
said. day after day by two men whose
names she did not even know. They
kept her under lock and key. and the
other people in the house did not pay
any attention 10 her appeals. She was
afraid to make any great Outcry, be-
cause OF her dread Of being beaten by
her eaptors. She was never allowed to
leave the room, she told her rescuers,
for an instant. Nobody befriended her
until the servant, in a whispered talk
through the door, promised TO mail
note for her.
The girl who is small for her age
and does not look seventeen was much
weakened by her treatment She was
sent to the Chlldren's Society TO be
cared for.
The detectives finished up their Job
by arresting two men suspected OF be-
ing the girls jailers.