Evening star., 1923-07-19
WOMAN
| TELLSEXpER|ENCE
Burned With Acid, Hair Cut
Off and Attacked by Two Ab-
ductors, She Declares.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, July 1s.-Details of
her abduction on a busy street corner
here Monday evening and subsequent
torture in an effort to wiring from
her information relating to q deal
involving George Petropol, an oil
lease broker, were given last night
by Mrs. Pearl Hayter. according to a
story published this morning by the
Tulsa World.
Before she was thrown from an
automobile on the streets of Okmul-
gee late Monday night. Mrs. Hayter
declared she was attached by two or
her abductors and burned with acid.
Her hair was shorn by the kidnapers,
she said.
Vehement denial was made by Mrs.
Hayter that she and Petropol had
been Matchmaking business men in
Tulsa and Sapulpa as alleged by
twelve masked men who were re-
ported to have summoned reporter
of the Tulsa Tribune Tuesday and
stated that they were responsible for
the torture of the woman, charging
that she and Petropol had been prac-
ticing extortion. Petropol also
denied such charges. challenging his
accuSers to meet him in court. The
masked men asserted they were not
me mi bers of the ku klux klan.
VIII Probe Charges.
An official inquiry into the case
will be instituted, it was announced
by County Attorney John NJ. Colds
berry.
The motorcar contained four men
and one woman, Mrs. Hayter said.
arriving at the point south of Tulsa
she declared she was told:
you can save yourself a lot of
suffering and trouble by telling us
what you know about the Berry
Petropol deal
Asked by the reporter what Berry
was referred to, one of the men ac-
companying Mrs. Haytsr spoke up:
she means Berry all right. Jim
Berry of the American National Bank
of SapuIra" he said. according to the
reporter.
Yes, that's the man 1 mean and the
man to whom they referred" Mrs.
Hayter continued.
Only Her Good Friend.
"One of the men then accused me
of knowing all about Georges busi-
ness. but I denied knowing thing
about this Berry DEAL" Mrs. Hayter
here interrupted to say that Petropol
had been only a good friend.
She then related that she was taken
back TO railroad station and placed
on board train for Olimulgee, being
warned that if she called for help or
attempted to escape she wouio De
Killed. -,
On arriving in Okmulgee, she said
she was placed in another automobile
and driven out into the country where
oil
again denied any knowledge of the
deal. -,
.'Well. well. if you won't talk wen
make you wish you had, and cut that
pride of yours one of the men said
to me.
Talked Of Ransom.
after this was over they said they
would take me to a place and keep
me. One of them asked me how much
money Petropol had and wondered IL
he would pay S10,o or $4,000 to get
me back.
They decided they would take me
some place and hold me, but one OF
them said he had something that
would make me talk.
He then pulled bottle from his
pocket and announced they would
AT first they would tilt the bottle
of acid so the cork would be wet
and stick II on my arm. 1t burned
awfully. Gradually they grew more
bolder and the torture was something
awful. All the time they were doing
this they said if 1 would tell them
of the Berry deal they would quit.
Burned ON Breast.
Then they burned my breast and
my legs with the acid and I broke
down and it seemed like this fright
ened them.
"On the way back the men cut the
hair from my head.
Finally ! was dumped out on
aide street in Okmuigee.
'T did not know any of the men
who participated in the kidnapping"
Mrs. Hayter's arms were bandaged,
and from appearance her breast had
been badly burned with acid.
A long distance telephone call to
James Berry of the American Ma
tional Bank at Sapulpa informing
him that Mrs. Hayter had named him
in the torture case brought the
answer that he knew nothing about
the case, but he said they evidently
did not get the man."
81 know of no deal in which myself
or the bank could be involved"
Berry said. save the deal where the
bank purchased building on which
Petropol had a lease. He went into
court and asked the cancellation of
the lease and we won the case in the
district court and Petropol appealed"
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