The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-09
Daughters Are Back Home
After Abduction; Story
Matches Dream
SAVED ON RURAL ROAD
CaptorS Threaten Another
Hickman Case as They
Drive AWAY.

fading, stretched her arms toward
heaven today and vowed that an in
visible force had sent her message
that her daughter and another girl
had been kidnapped by two men
Sunday and that God had answered
her anguish prayers that the girls
be brought home unharmed.
Scientists who grope about the
hinterland of the mind probably
would explain the message as mental
telepathy, growing out of the un-
commonly strong bond of affection
between the mother and the daugh-
ter. The girl has given up school
and all the joys of youth to sit by
her bedside and nurse her for eight
long months.
But to the mother, Mrs. Cal Jor-
dan, 1346 Deloss ST., it was nothing
but the hand of God.
Nothing is impossible to God,"
said the pain-wracked mother. II
prayed and He listened and I have
Clara back safely. Now I can die"
Girls to Movies
AS a relief from the long hours
of attendance at her mothers bed
side, Clara Jordan, Is, was per-
mitted to go to the movies Sunday
afternoon.
Trula Garden, IS, her chum, was
| to go with her, and Trula'S mother,
Mrs. Fred Garden, 964 English Ave,
came to sit with Mrs. Jordan while
they we're gone.
The girls started gayly away, the
heavy burden of her mothers ILL
ness temporarily lifted from Claras
slight shoulders.
AT Shelby st. and Hoyt Ave, two
men in a coupe drew alongside them
and stopped. Telling the terrified
cnndren they would kill them if
they screamed, the men leaped out
and pushed them into the car, ac-
cording to the girls.
Drive Into Country
One of the men made Clara sit
On his lap in the rear seat while the
other drove rapidly into the coun-
try. That was about 2:30 Sunday
afternoon.
The mothers did not see their
daughters again until 1890 this
morning, when a farmer brought
them home with their stories of
narrowing experience.
When darkness approached and
the two girl had not returned, the
two mothers became worried.
Suddenly, about p. m. Mrs.
Garden says, Mrs. Jordan, who is so
weak she scarcely can raise her
arms, lifted herself to a sitting pos
ture and cried out that she had just
seen a vision that the girls were in
danger.
She saw the girls struggling in a
car with two men. She told of see
ing Trula clinging to the side of the
car as one Of the men tried to drag
her from it. She described Clara
being led up the road by the other
man.
Verify Mothers Story
The girls later verified that this
was exactly what happened. Clara
said that all the while she pleaded
with the captors to let her go home
to her dying mother and she was
frantic because she feared the
shock of her abduction would kill
her parent.
II do not know why I had the
visions, but suddenly saw Clara
being led away into a woods by a
man." said Mrs. Jordan today. "I
saw Trula breaking away from the
man who held her and running
down the road to a farmhouse. And
then suddenly knew that they were
safe.
Il prayed that God would take
care of them. I cried out to him to
save my baby for me, to send her
home to me safely. He knows that /
soon am to die.
HE can not give me health and
so asked Him, knowing that it may
be my last request, to take care of
my baby and Trula. That is how
it happened, because I have faith
and because I could not live longer
without Clara.
Warned Of Hickman Case
The rest of the story was told by
the frightened girls. They gave po-
lice the license number of the car
and detectives. are tracing it.
One of the men had warned
them. 1--WE will make this another
Hickman case unless you do as you
are told" and again, "If you make
any noise we will kill you
They drove around all afternoon
and evening in the hilly country
thirty miles southwest Of the city,
avoiding towns and roads with
heavy traffic. The men tried to get
the girls to get out at a pump and
drink water. The girls said they
resisted successfully.
The men, becoming bolder, finally
tried one last bit of force. One
pushed Miss Jordan from the car
and led her up the road. Miss Car
den clung to the side of the car,
screaming.
Two Girls Appear
Just then two girls about their
own age. appeared upon the road,
driving some COWS. Miss Garden
broke loose and ran toward them.
The oif.Is took Miss Garden IN