San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-13
Seized in Struggle, She Is
Carried to Strange
House.
SISTERS ROBES TAKEN
Returns to Convent, After
Escape, in Dazed
Condition.
BY the Associated Press.


Frederick, Md, Feb. 13.-Police.
men in this city and Baltimore are
searching today for a mysterious man
land woman who are believed TO have
kidnapped Sister Cecilia, 81, a music
steacher at the Notre Dame Academy,
here yesterday afternoon and took her
ito Baltimore, where she escaped from
"a home. after being held captive for
several hours, She returned to the in
sstitution in a dazed condition.
Stewart Cathcart, a taxi driver
OF Baltimore, who brought Sister Ce-
ella to Frederick in his machine last
might, was locked up in Jail at the
request of Father Kane. While not
believing Cathcart to be implicated in
the kidnapping, the priest stated that
7Cathcart gave evasive answers to
many Of his questions.
According 10 Sister Cecilia's story,
as recited 10 Father William J. Kane,
1overseer of the Notre Dame Convent,
she was struck over the head with
a blunt instrument by the man, mad
,drugged. She is still in bed today,
suffering from a fright as result
sof her adventure. She was able TO
give Father Kane but a meagre de-
iscription of the strangers and could
mot name the house to which she was
taken in Baltimore.
Father Kane said that the room at
the convent from which the nun had
been taken showed signs Of a fierce
struggle. The sisters sirdle rosary
Jay broken on the floor. Furniture
was misplaced. A vial believed to
contain chloroform, was found, to-
.sether with a cloth believed to have
been saturated with the drug. Her
well was discovered in a crumpled
condition.
Sister Cecilia. the overseer said,
first observed the man and woman
about 1 O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
They were standing near closed au-
itomobile across the street from the
convent.
At that time the sister remarked to
one OF her pupils. that the strangers
were acting mysteriously. Later the
woman came around to a rear win
dow and peered through. The nun
was alone in the building at the
time and went to the window TO
investigate.
On reaching there, she told Father
Kane, a man struck her over the
head. She lost consciousness. she
stated, and did not recover until she
found herself in the Baltimore
house.
On regaining consciousness. she
found herself Invested of her sisters
garb. She overheard voices in an adj
.jacent room. talking about money mat
tiers. The persons talking, Sister &c.
ella told Father Kane, sounded as If
they were foreigners, and the words
%ransom" and 800" were mentioned.
Taking a hat and coat from the
wall of the room, Sister Cecilia ran
out of the building and asked a pa
trolman about train service for Fred
erick. When told that train service
was suspended to that place for the
night, she asked the policeman to
direct her tn a taIicab stand.
80 In State Of Collapse.
~ Cathcart, according to Father
Kane, at first refused to take the sis
fer as his passenger. as the fare from
Baltimore to Frederick was $50. Sis
ter Cecilia had only 81 with her,
which she found in a pocket Of the
ioyercoat she wore, the priest stated.
Learning that the tolls would be paid
in Frederick. however, Cathcart con-
scented to take her through.
On arriving here, Sister Cecilia was
IN a state of collapse.