New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-31
KIDNAPPED GIRL
WAKES,TERRIFIED
BY WEIRD DREAM
Painted Saturday - Re
wives in Dlngy Flat
Guarded by a Hag.
BLINDFOLDED; RUSHED
AWAY IN DARK TAXI
Found Lost and Weak In Staten
Island, Her Clothes Changed,
Her Salary Gone.

A pretty girl or whose face was the
pallor Of a terrible experience was
found wandering Aimlessly about the
Staten Island depot of the municipal
ferry by detectives late yesterday
afternoon.
She was Annie Nausbaum, seventeen
years old. Of Irvington, N. J. She dis
appeared Saturday afternoon while re-
turning from work In Newark. When
found BY the detectives she could not
tell her name or her address. Her hair
was dishevelled, her clothes disordered.
The detectives took her TO a side room.
where she tainted She was then taken
10 the Staten Islard detective bureau.
Still too weak 70 speak and wringing
her hands in agony, the girl was taken
70 the Smith Infrmary Hospital at
New Brighton, where she vas revived
by drugs.
Please" she cried as her strength
returned, tell my father and mother
where | am"
With that she collapsed again. When
aroused she told who she was an
where she came from. Her parents
we're notified and her father, Louis
Nausbaum. came to her.
Father" she cried as she few to
his arms. She cried softly as he petted
her.
Annie was employed as a clerk in
Bergens shoe factory on Canal Street,
Newark She worked until 1 o'clock,
Saturday afternoon, and then, in com
pRny with other girls, started home.
She separated from the rest when she
reached Broad and Market streets, and
waited there for car 20 lrvington.
When she left she had So in her
pay envelope. her weekly salary. A.
The car was long in coming she looked
at the show windows about her Her
attention was attracted by the display
IN q hat window. She was gazing at
he creation when suddenly she felt
her knees weaken. Then everything,
she said, seemed black.
when I woke up the first thing |
saw was a gas Jet. ] looked at II f-r
long time. II seemed 70 fsscinate me.
Then l remembered that ! had never
been in the place before and l began
10 look around me. Il was cheap
sort Of room. My glance fell on an
ugly old lady who seemed 20 be sort OF
smiling at me and man about thirty
five years old"
Annie asked for something TO eat.
The couple, however, reached for a
flask Of whiskey and offered Il TO her.
The girl refused 70 drink the liquor.
and again pleaded for something to
eat. but 70 no avail. They persisted
that she take the whiskey. She
cenched her fists, sAe said. and gri'ted
her teeth.
The light was turned ont again and
she felt herself slipping away into I'M
consciousness Il seemed sensation
like that she had experienced when she
tainted Saturday afternoon.
The girl remembered nothing until
this morning, when she was aroused
on opening her eyes she saw the stran-
ger standing over her, but the old
woman was nowhere 20 be seen. Again
she pleaded for something 20 eat, and
in answer the man picked up white
flannel rag and tied 10 over her eyes
Too weak 90 make any struggle, ANNE
was led from the house. She felt her
self being placed ir conveyance
Then she heard the chug chag % q
motor
Do seemed as 70 she had been riding
90 eternity before the taxi stopped
The handago had been removed from
her eyes and she was led out and left
on the sidewalk ln Der purse she
found frw co..q instead Of her tFc
dollars ONE block away rhe saw The
entrance to what she thought Was the
CorflauIt street ferry u was he
Ncn York depot az t.c Staten Island
ferry ,
She crossed over 90 Staten Island
She had never been there before an
eyorvtt ne seemed 90 strange that she