Evening star., 1923-02-20
Probes of kidnapping Case
Halt When Documentary
Evidence Is Found.
RAILWAY MEN SAW HER
AND MOTHER SUPERIOR GO
But One Returned From Trip to
Baltimore, Station Agent
Asserts.
BY Q staR Correspondent.

by Star Correspondent.
FREDERICK. Md, February 30
The police today claim to be In pos
session of documentary evidence
showing that Sister Cecilia, who was
alleged to have been kidnapped from
the Convent OF the Notre Dame hero
week ago and held captive in a
house in Baltimore for some hours.
journeyed to the Maryland metrop-
OILS on a Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road train two days before the sup
posed abduction and is known not
TO have returned by that route. 81
multaneously there has been q sud
den halt In the Investigations the
ponce department.. States Attorney
aaron Randers and q citizens Wig
ing.
On Saturday afternoon. February 10.
sister Cecilia, accompanied by Sister
Nola, mother superior Of the convent,
Is said to have appeared at the ticket
ONCE OF the Baltimore and Ohio rail =
road here and demanded two tickets
70 Baltimore at the regular reduced
rare allowed members OF the clergy
and the sisterhoods. according to in
formation furnished the police. C. d.
necessary application papers, which
each signed. IT Is claimed. according
70 requirements. and received their
tickets upon payment OF $1.05 each.
Standing directly beside the ticket
window, in conversation with Mr.
Ogle at the time the two nuns ap-
peared. was l. w. Moxley, a con-
ductor. employed by the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. Mr.. Moxley's home
Is in Brentwood, Nd, which is just
Columbia. near Mount Rainier. Md He
was waiting for his own train to be
made up at the time and had gone
into the station to keep warm.
Mr.. Moxley. 1t Is asserted, also
heard the two nuns ask for the tick
cts to Baltimore and distinctly saw
Sister Cecilia sign on her own slip
sis Cecilia. s. S. N. D."
Naturally a person pays a little
more attention when he sees a men,
Moxley explained reluctantly, after
long questioning. land know 1t was
the name Cecilia" I saw her write
down. At the time the two nuns
appeared they were accompanied by
little girl about twelve years old.
Saw Nuns Beard Train.
II do not know what became of
the child. but saw both nuns stand
In. front of the baggage room door
and walt for their train to Balti-
more to Be made ready. A tsw MIN
utes later both OF them boarded the
train. and. as 1t pulled out almost
Immediately. they must have gone to
Baltimore with It, because I stayed
around until time for my run 70
Washington again and never saw
them after that"
Confirmation was furnished today
by Mr.. ,Ogle. who admitted he had
sold Sister Cecilia and Sister Nola the
tickets to Baltimore and said they
took a tyain leaving Frederick at
o'clock. Saturday afternoon, February
10. The conductor of the train, he
added. is r. NJ. Faith.
AS Mr.. Ogle Is obliged to spend most
of his time around the station, meet
ing every train returning from all
points along the line between Balti-
more and Washington. he had ample
opportunity to notice whether the
two nuns came back to Frederick
Sister Nola. 1t Is asserted. arrived
here Sunday night, at $40 o'clock
she 1t is declared, used train No. Al,
which leaves Baltimore at 5:25
(COnfinued on pa0e p Cn1nmn Al