New Britain herald., 1927-03-07
Beginning THE SOB SISTER ''ca :a
Chapter 1

Times appeared on the street one April morning with an ejght-column streamer spread across it's front page announc- ing the abduction of beauti- full Diana Brooks, the public Gasped over breakfast tables and exclaimed:
 THIS is the LIMIT"
 But it wasn't nor anywhere near the limit.
 The story, as outlined in the graphic style of the trained news writer, left little to the Imagination. But that little was sufficient to intrigue the interest of Catawba City, and of other cities where the de- tails flooded. :. A young society girl had been kidnapped from the ve- randa of her own home in broad daylight.
 1t was epOchal m the slgnl- ficance it carried. It was a message from the Underworld. The abduction constituted a declaration of war on the poli- cy of the Brooks newspapers. Roger Brooks, owner and publisher, had dared to turn the guns of his organization on the blatantly overt acts of a vice-ridden city administra- tion.
 Lay off.' the Underworld hirelings, had warned in their classic vernacular. Hay off or we'll heaye a bomb into the works"
 And the Times had kept right on hammering the graft grabbing politicians of the Ring.
 "Bewarew The gangsters warned again and fired a cow ardly shot in the dark. But the shot didn't take.
 Then they kidnapped the daughter.
 "Now, what?" the public asked the wide world.
 Whereupon came the answer to-what?
 Just 24 hours after Diana Brooks had been seized on the veranda of her own home, thrown into a limousine and whisked away, she alighted from a taxicab in front of the Times building, walked into the editorial room and told the amazing story herself.
 She was sitting in a ham, mock, she said, just after luncheon, on the veranda of her home. Her cousin, Lola, 8 girl of her own age, was sit ting near by.
 As they talked a limousine drove into the grounds. It stopped under the portico of the veranda. Two well-dressed men alighted. They walked up the steps and one spoke, ask ing if Mir. Brooks was there, Diana started to reply, she said, when the other man grab bed her. He threw heavy cloth over her head and wound it tight, effectually gaggine end nearly smothering her.
 She heard her cousin scream Then she felt herself lifted in the mans arms carried down the steps and placed inside the waiting car which immediate ly started away at top speed After what seemed hours she was lifted out and forced to walk up a stairway. At the top she was led into a room Here the cloth was removed She looked around, she said and found herself in room with a bath adjoining. The room contained two beds. An old woman who later proved tc be both deaf and dumb stood looking at her. The two mer lad disappeared.
 She had been kept locked uI in this room 24 hours, guarded by the old woman. During that time she had seen no person save her keeper. Food had come up to them on a dumt waiter.
 Then, just about an hour be, fore, she said in conclusion of her story, the old woman had shown her a card on which was written: You are going home"
 After tying the black cloth over her head again the wom- an had conducted her down stairs to the street and into a closed car. The car immedi- ;itely drove away.
 Finding herself alone she united the cloth. She was ir 6 taxicab, the one that had brought her to the Times build.