The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-10
The SOB SISTER
By CLIFFORD WEBB
and ROSE ELO
- WHY WAS DIANA BROOKS KIDNAPPED? -
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When the Catawba City Times appeared the streets
April morning with eightcoumn spread its
page announcing the abduction of the beautiful Diana
Brooks public gsped breakfast tables and exclaimed
tFTHIS is the LIMIT!'
The story as outlined graphic styles of the trained
news writer left little the imagination But that little
sufficient intrigue the interest Of Catawba City, and of other
cities where the details flooded
young society girl had been kidnapped from the veranda
of her home in broad daylight!
It was epochal in the significance it carried. 1t was
message the underworld The abduction constituted
declaration Of the policy of the Brooks newspapers
Roger Brooks and publisher had dared to turn the
guns his organization the blanty overt acts of vice
ridden city administration
clay the Underworld hirelngs had warned in their
classic vernacular 'Lay off ell heave bomb into tn
works"
And the Times had kept right hammering the graft
grabbing politicians of the Ring.
'FBeware!' The gangsters warned again and fred a
cowardy shot in the dark But the shot didn't take.
Then they kidnapped the daughter.
''Now, what? the public asked the wide world
Whereupon the to-what?
Just Diana Brooks had been seized the
veranda of her home thrown into limousine and whked
away she alghed taxcab front of the Times build
ing walked the editorial and told the amazing story
herself.
She was sitting a hammock she said just after luncheon,
on the veranda Her cousin Loo girl of her
own age, sitting nearby
As they talked a limousine drove into the grounds. 1t
stopped portco of the veranda Two wedressed
men aghed They walked up steps and spoke asking
Brooks there Diana started to reply she sad when
the other grabbed her. He threw heavy cloth her
head and tight eecualy gaggng and nearly smoth-
ering her
She heard Then she felt herself lifted in
carried down the steps and placed inside the
waiting car which Immediately started away at top speed
After hours she lifted out and forced to
walk up stairway At the top she was led into room Here
the cloth was removed looked around she sad and found
herself in with bath adjoining The contained
two An old who later proved to be both deaf and
dumb stood looking her The had disappeared
She had been kept locked up in this for "a hours,
the old During that time she had seen no
person her keeper Food had come up to them on
dumb waiter.
Then lust about an before she said in conclusion of
her story the had shown her card which was
written: '|You going home
After tying the black cloth her head again the
had conducted her down stairs to the street and into closed
car The Immediately drove away.
Finding herself alone she united the cloth. She was in
axcab the that had brought her to the Times building
That was all the shot in the dark the kidnapping, for
some mysterious reason hadn't seemed to take.
The morning Diana Brooks temperance the Times
carried another scahng editorial 1t heaped Goals of fire
the city administration and the politicians of the Ring
The answer swiftly, startling more amazing,
more deadly menacng it's rreachng effects than all that
had gone before.
The hands of the Western Union clock in the editorial room
Of the Catawba City Times pointed to the hour of three 1t
was fogdrenched morning in April
Down in the basement the thunderous boom from the big
had long ceased The had been put to
bed the last edition gone
broodng silence portentious of gloom hung over tne
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