The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-16
GIRL TELLS STORY
Of HER ABDUCTION
At Point of Revolver She Is
Taken by Captors to
Jersey City.
OFFICIALS ARE CRITICIZED MA
MAKES HER
She Is Seized in Broad Day
light on Street in
Philadelphia.

New York, January 15.-Eleanor
Oxley. the fifteen ear-old girl who was
kidnapped by two men in broad day
light n the streets of Philadelphia
suburb, Monday morning, and brought
to this city, was found at the home OF
her uncle, No. 1910 Sixth Avenue,
Brooklyn, wither she made her way, foi-
lowing her escape from her abductors az
Jersey City She was still in a half
hysterical condition last night when,
accompanied by her father, Hiram OK
ley, who arrived yesterday noon. enc
took the train for home.
The police who went TO work upon the
case following tho receipt OF WORD IRON
the Philadelphia authorities, did little
Yesterday toward uncovering the ident-
ity of the girls captors. IL is beiiesed
that they did not come TO New Gork, put
but became frightened at Jersey City
and returned 10 Philadelphia.
The girl told a circumstantial story
of her experience at her uncle's home
last night before she started for phil
adelphia-
Monday morning left my home IN
Tacony, a suburb of Philadelphia, she
said, ito seek a place as stenographei
and typewriter in an office IN w aihue
Street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth
Streets in answer to an advertisemeht'
When a few blocks from my home was
approached by two men. who told me
to go with them. I at FIRST refused, but,
when they grabbed hold of me ana put
a handkerchief over my face, pc
came frightened and daZed and could
not cry out.
Threatened 18th Revolvers.
"I was led into a lot and told to SIT
down. The men then showed me the
revolvers they carried and told me II
dared to scream or refused TO do as they
told me they would break my head or
else shoot me-" We then took street
car of the State Road Line and got on at
the Pennsylvania Railroad station at
Frankfort Street.
while on the car the men stood on
the platform and l was told to sit near
the door. There were very few pas
senCers on the car. When l got on
one of the men gave me s. oS and tod
me TO buy one ticket for New YORK
purchased the ticket and boarded
train for this city. At Trenton we
changed cars.
'.On the ride from Philadelphia TO
Trenton one of the men occupied the
front seat, while the other rode in the
seat behind me- From Trenton 10
Jersey City the two men guarded me
from the rear seat. the mont one oeing
occupied. At the slightest move the
out an outcry.
AT Jersey City the men told me to
sit down and wait for them to return |
One went away, while the other waikeo
up and down near where l was sitting /
After a time he went away. ana l got
up and went to one of the railroad
station guards and asked my way 10
this address.
with the spare change 1 had'
came to the home of my aunt.
According to the aunt. the young |
girl came TO her home about As o clock 1
Monday afternoon. crying ~ Vas
herself to tell coherent story of what /
had happened
The girl said there was no name men
she had first tried TO secure the position |
last Friday 1t was only after she had 1
gone into two buildings on the block
designated in the advertisement that
she learned from the boy in the hall |
She described the office as small:
With desk typeTfin 1t. v; .aoie r Snn
tried her al dictation and typewriting,
and. seeming we'll satisfied. told her /
to come back Monday morning. Notn-
ing the girl said. was mentioned az 70
salary OF as to what experience she mad
had in that line Of work
According to the father. the girl. who
IS blonde, with wavy hair hanging
down her back to the waist line and /
With large blue eyes and rosy com
plexions is quiet and OF domestic IN,
She is musically inclined, and
was wont to pass her evenings at home
with her three brothers.
Her abductors she described as of
dark COMPLEXION One had a small
black mustache was about thirty or
forty years old and was rather untldy In
appearance. According to the girl, they
looked like Italians.
The father recently served on a jury
IN the United States District Court.
VI ich investigated white slavery Moth
ng he said occurred at the time which
could lead any one to abduct the child
He showed the strain he has gone
through since his daughter did not re-
urn to her home Monday night He
old of how the entire family assisted
by the neigh bors, thoroughly canvaseed
he Philadelphia hospitals. and finally
escorted to the police of that city in a
hope of finding her