Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-02
Two Young Women Held
Up and Robbed Within
a Week.
EVIDENCE OF STRUGGLE
Broken Goggles and Umbrella
Handle Found On University
Campus by Police.

Chicago, May "A pair Of broken
automobile goggles and a smashed I
gold umbrella handle may solve the 7
strange mystery Of the kidnapping and
robbery Of Miss Marion Gorecki, the
University of Chicago high school
student.
The broken bits of evidence were
found an hour after the alleged as
sault by the three auto bandits" on
Miss GOTecki by policeman patroling
the Midway p.aisance. They were
not turned over to Lieutenant Nc
Cam OF the Hyde Park station until
last night.
With the recovery of the umbrel-
la handle, which the girl says was
smashed in a terrific fight with the
bandits while she was on her way to
classes last Monday morning, the po-
lice say they now place full credence
in the girls story. Lieutenant Nc
Cam says that her tale Of being kid
naped in an automobile in broad
daylight, being robbed and then left
along the roadside in an unconscious
condition, while strange, is not i'm
possible.
TELLS OF DISCOVERY.
"The goggles and umbrella handle
were picked up at 10 20 O'Clock Monday
morning, an hour after the girl says
she was kidnapped and robbed said
Lieutenant Mccain. They were
found at the exact spot on the Midway
plaihance where Miss Gorecd says
she was attacked. From the broken
condition OF the goggles and umbrella
handle It would appear that the girls
story Of how she fought the men is
true"
In the hope OF gaining some new
clew to the bandits, Lieutenant Nc
Cam today will personally question
the girl. She has partially recovered
from the hysterical condition in
which she has been since Monday
morning when, bedraggled and soak
ed TO the skin. she stumbled into a
building at the university and col
lapsed after telling an incoherent
story OF the kidnapping and robbery.
GIRL IL FEELING BETTER.
Marion is feeling better" her
mother, Mrs. Stephen Goreck, 1921
Noble street. said yesterday, and
tells the same story she told at first
as to what happened. She says she
was struggling across the campus in
the rain. tugging in the wind with
her umbrella, when she was seized
from behind by three men, choked
and gagged and then drugged. She
was thrown into an automobile and
carried some distance before she was
dumped out in the rain and mud
when she recovered she crawled to
the university building"
Mrs. Gorecki denied the story that
her husband is a count, but said he
came from a well-to-do Polish fam,
fly. She said her daughter speaks
English. German. Polish, French and
Russian fiuently and is a creditabl,
musician. The mother was extreme
ly proud of her daughters needle
work.
ANOTHER GIRL KIDNAPPED.
Considerable impetus was given tn,
search for the girls assailant will
the discovery that another girl
Amelia Neumann, a domestic in tn,
employ Of Professor P. II. Boynton
acting dean of the junior colleges, hat
been kidnapped and robbed by auto
mobile bandits a week ago. The po
lice are inclined to believe the mel
who maltreated the Neumann CIR
and those who attacked Miss Goreck
were the same.
Miss Mary Reynolds. the night tick
ct agent at the Stewart Ridge sta
tlon OF the Illinois Central railroad a
East One Hundred and Twenty-firs
street. who told the police story O
being held up and robbed Of $3.50 b
two men in the station Wednesda
night. confessed yesterday that sh
had concocted the story OF the rol
berry.
The girl told Lieutenant Mooney {
the Kensington station that she too
the money and gave Il to Charlie
Dufy. TO whom she was TO be Marie
soon. The money was found hidde
I'm a cigar box buried at the base {
the telegraph pole at East One HUI
dred and Fifth street and Michiga
avenue by the police. Miss ReynolC
was not held in custody and LieuteI
ant Mooney said she would not Z
railroad officials insisted on pushir
the case.
San Francisco-The state suprer
court has denied an application for