The Washington times., 1923-02-14
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CHURCH
Pastor Hires Burns Detectives
to Run Down Story of
Sister Cecilia.
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with an anaeSthet1C and pressed
over her nose still lay on the little
table in the parlor. They were
stained dark brown and there was
the same stain on the embroidered
centerpiece. The liquid was sent
to Baltimore for analysis. On the
cork of the bottle was a label
marked Sharp & Dohme."
! DR.. A. r. L. Dohme, Of Sharp
& Dohme, manufacturing chemists
last night said his company manu-
features a gauze for dressing that
would turn brown IL saturated with
chloroform or ether.
This gauze, said DIR. Dohme, is
treated with iodide potassium and
| is white or cream colored. When
! it comes in contact with ether or
chloroform the iodine is released,
turning the color of the gauze
brown.
The Baltimore and Philadelphia
Knights of Columbus and Catholic
organizations in other cities have
offered financial and other help in
running down her abductors and
| Archbishop Curley has entered the
investigation.
Believe woman" Man.
State and municipal police were
combing Baltimore and surrounding
territory for two foreigners, a man
and woman, answering the meagef
description furnished by Sister Co.
celia. The police worked on the
| theory the woman was really man
in disguise.
Sister Cecilia said she returned to
the music room of the convent when
she noticed a foreign woman, APP
par0ntly an Italian, attempting to
raise a window. AS she approached
the woman there was g. step from
! behind and she was struck down
\ by a heavy blow on the head.
She remembered nothing else un.
til she awakened in a poorly fur
nished room. She said there were
two men nearby in a drunken sleep
and others in an adjoining room
were discussing what we can get
for this job"
| Her nuns garb had been torn
off. Sister Cecilia told the authori-
ties she found a brown coat on the
floor and a hat. Escaping from the
place she found herself near the
Camden station in Baltimore. A
policemen put her in a taxicab and
she returned to Frederick.
Anti Catholics Suspected.
The Rev. w. j. Kane, OF St.
Johns Catholic Church. expressed
the opinion Sister Cecilia had been
kidnapped by anti-Catholic Italians
who hoped for large ransom.
Convinced that little can be done
toward clearing up the mysterious
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the Nun is able to come to Balti-
more and personally assist in the
search, local police officials have
ordered most Of the special detail
OF western district police to suspend
investigations.
Yesterday ten men, under Ser
geant Parr, combed the territory
adjacent to Camden Station in an
effort to find some person who re-
membered seeing the Nun in the
vicinity on the day OF the alleged
kidnapping.
Not a single clue was uncovered,
and few houses answering the de.
scription of the one in which Sister
Cecilia was imprisoned were found
by the police. In each of these
houses the occupants were able to
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| selves.
Today three men, under Sergeant
Parr, are working on the case, and
their efforts are confined to inter
viewing persons living in the neigh.
borhood of Camden Station.
A special search will be made for
the store where several articles of
! apparel, found in Sister Cecilia g
|
How long before Sister Cecilia
will be in condition to come to Bal
timore and aid in the search, police
officials are unable to say. Sheriff
James A. Jones, Of Frederick
county, who visited Baltimore yes
terday, returned to Frederick last
night and interviewed the Rev. VIII
liam J. Kane. pastor Of st. john
| Church, to which the convent is at
| tached.
Police Still In Dark.
Police here are also in the dark
as to the manner in which Sister
Cecilia reached Baltimore Conduc-
tors of trains running between Fred
erick and Baltimore say no woman
answering the description of the nun
! travelled on their trains on the day
Of the alleged kidnapping, and drivers
of Frederick-to-Baltimo buses
have told the police the same.
| Patrolman r. S. Osborne, the po-
| liceman to whom the mum appeal
ed. said she told him a friend was
dying in Frederick, and it was i'm
perative she return there. The last
train had departed. and she did not
| have sufficient funds for the taxi
cab fare, but an arrangement was
made whereby she was to pay later.
Stewart Cathcart, the driver who
| took Sister Cecilia to Frederick
was thought by her friends to have
| had a part in the kidnapping and
| had a close call from being mobbed
! He spent the night in jail at Fred
erick, but was released.
An examination Of the room
| from which the nun was dragged
disclosed signs of a struggle Her
rosary was on the floor, and a bot
tie, containing a perfumed drug,
on the table.
Convent Heads Puzzled.
| Convent authorities are at a loss
| to understand how Sister Cecilia
could have been sandbaggad,
drugged and dragged from the con-
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