Evening star., 1928-11-19
KIDNAPPING CHARGE
BLOCKS EL0PEMENT
Young Man, 16-Year-0Id Girl
and Couple, Accused as
Aides, Held Here.

Plans of young Maryland couple to
elope to Alexandria went astray when
Hyattsville police arrested the husband
to-be on a charge of kidnapping last
night, and took the 16-year-old pros
pective bride into custody at las am.
this morning in Northeast Washing
ton tourists home on warrant charg-
ing her with being fugitive from
justice.
Before police had finished their in
vestigation they had also arrested a
young married couple in Hyattsville on
charges of aiding and abetting the al
legged kidnapping.
The girl being held at the House of
Detention for Maryland authorities is
Miss Elvira Ann Perkins of Riverda1e,
Md. She is a sophomore at Business
High School. The man she says she
planned to marry. and who is charged
with kidnapping her, is Edwin Carroll,
10 years old. of Hyattsville. Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis E. Barr, friends of Carroll,
are said to, nave kept the girl in their
home Sunday afternoon and to have ac-
companied Carroll when he took her to
Washington.
Three Are Arraigned.
Carroll and Mr. and Mrs. Barr were
arraigned before Justice of the Peace H.
J. Moffatt this morning and were re-
leased under $100 bond each for a pre-
nmlnary hearing Wednesday.
The girls mother said she missed her
daughter about z o'clock Sunday morn
ing ana started out to search for her.
MRS. Perkins said she walked all day
from mouse TO house where she thought
her daughter might be until late after
noon, when she heard Elvira had been
seen at the Barr home She went to
the house, she said, but was told her
daughter had not been there. =,
After his arrest, Barr told police the
girl heard her mother coming and hid
IN a closet, not five feet from the spot
where Mrs. Perkins stood, and stayed
tnere until she had gone. Elvira's
sweater was lying on a bed in the
room. but Mrs. Perkins was so excited
she failed to notice it.
Asks for Police Aid.
MRS. Perkins, however, was not sat-
lstled with the story told by the Bars
and she went to Chief of Police C.
M. Blanchard for assistance. They went
back together about 8 o'clock, but
found the Bars gone out.
A search of the house resulted in
their finding Elvira's clothing scattered
around bedroom, but the girl was
not in the building.
Chief Blanchard waited in front of
the house until Mr.. and Mrs. Barr re-
turned with Carroll at IL o'clock. when
he placed all three under arrest. After
lengthy questioning he learned that the
girl had been taken to a tourists home
in Washington. Leaving the married
couple and Carroll with his deputies.
Blanchard went to the address given.
where, assisted by headquarters detec-
tives he located the missing girl and
took her to the House of Detention.
Elvira told police she went to the
Bars home of her own accord and
met Carroll there. She and Carroll
planned to be married in Alexandria
this morning, she said, but she did not
want her parents to know of 1t because
she knew they would object. She sad
she had been going with Carroll for
two weeks, but that he had never beer.
to her house, always meeting her out
side when they had an engagement.
She admitted hiding in the closet when
she saw her mother coming up the
front steps.