New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-15
GIRL, KIDNAPPED At
POINT OF GUN, ESCAPES
Foi|s AbduCtorS, Who Had
Forced Her to Accompany
Them to Jersey City.
SEIZED IN PHILADELPHIA
Eludes Captors While Waiting
for Ferry to New York, and
Makes Her Way, Half Swoon-
ing, to Aunt's Home.

kidnapped in broad daylight i'm the
streets OF Philadelphia suburb. Eleanor
Oxley. fifteen years old, escaped her abb
ductors at Jersey City yesterday. and
made her way 10 the home Of her uncle,
William Oxley, at No. 1910 Sixth avenue.
Brooklyn. She was in half hysterical
condition last night. thirty-siX hours az
ter she had been stolen from her home.
when her father. Hiram Oxley. arrived
here TO take her back to Philadelphia.
The police, who went 10 work upon the
case following the receipt Of word from
the Philadelphia authorities did little
yesterday toward uncovering the identity
OF the girls captors. II is believed that
they did not come 10 New York, but be-
came frightened at Jersey City and re-
turned to Philadelphia.
The girl told a circumstantial story OF
her experience at her uncle's home last
night before she started for Philadelphia
Monday morning I left my home I'm
Tacony, a suburb OF PHILADELPHIA" she
said, TO seek a place as stenographer
and typewriter In an office In Walnut
street, between 18th and 18th streets. in
answer TO an advertisement When a few
blocks from my home | was approached
by two men. who told me 10 20 with
them. l at first refused, but when they
grabbed hold Of me and put a handker-
chief over my face, I became frightened
and dazed and could not cry out.
Threatened with RevoIyers.
Il was led into lot and told 10 sit
down. The men then showed me the 70.
volvers they carried and told me II
dared 10 scream or refused TO do as they
told me they would break my head or
else shoot me- We then took a street car
OF the State Road line and got of az
the Pennsylvania Railroad station at
Frankfort street
nile on the car the men stood on the
platform and I was told to sit near tho
door There were very few Passengers ON
the car. When / got Off one of the men
gave me f205 and told me to buy ono
ticket for New York. purchased the
ucKet and boarded a train for this CITY
Al trenton we changed cars.
ON the ride from PbihdoInbia IN
trenton one Of the men occupied the
front seat, while the other rode I'm the
seat behind me. From Trenton to jersey
CITY the two men guarded me from the
rear seat, the front one being occupied.
Al the slightest move the men warned
me OF my fate II ! let out an outcry.
Al Jersey City the men told me TO 81,
down and wait for them 10 return One
went away. while the other walked nm
ana down near where | was sitting. After
TINE he went away, and / got up and
went to one Of the railroad station guards
and asked the way 10 this address
with the spare change | had came
to the home Of my aunt"
According to the aunt. the young cir
came to her home about 3:45 o'clock Mon
day afternoon crying. II was fully an
hour before she could control herself "a
tell coherent story Of what had hap.
pened
me girl said there was no name men
toned in the advertisement. and that she
mad first tried 70 secure the position last
friday. IL was only after she had gone
INTO two buildings on the block designated
IN the advertisement that she learned
from the boy In the hall where the place
was.
She described the Office as small, with
a desk, a typewriter table and three
chairs On her first visit a man tried
her at dictation and typewriting. and
seeming well satisfied. told her TO come
back Monday morning. Nothing the girl
said, was mentioned as TO salary or as
to what experience she had had in that
line Of work
According TO the father, the girl. who Is
a blonde. with wavy hair hanging down
her back to the waist line and with large
blue eyes and a rosy complexion, IL quiet
and of domestic instincts. She is nu-
sically inclined and was wont 10 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 untidy in appearance.
According to the girl, they looked ike
Italians.
The father recently served on a jury
in the United States District Court. which
investigated white slavery. Nothing, he
said, occurred at the time which could
lead any one to abduct his child.
He showed the strain he has gone
through since his daughter did not return
to her home Monday night He told OF
how the entire family. assisted by the
neighbours, thoroughly canvassed the
Philadelphia hospitals and finally re-
sorted to the police Of that city in a hope
Of finding her.