The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-07
GAS HAWKS KIDNAP GIRL
AND WOMAN; SUSPECT is
HELD ON CHILD'S, STORY
Screams Of Victim Bring
Help From Farmhouse;
One 'Sheik' Freed.

"Gas hawks" kidnapped a 36-year-
old woman and attempted to ATTACK
her early today.
A man in coupe drove a scream
ing girl southwest on Kentucky
Ave. so fast police were unable to
catch him.
A 32-year-old man is held on a
charge of attempting to entire a
12-year-old girl into his machine
near Riverside Park.
Mrs. Doris Mathews, So, of 43 N
Bevillle Ave, was the kidnapping VIC
tim. Mrs. Mathews, employed at
the Betsy Ross tearooom in the In
diana Theater, left work shortly
after midnight and attended a
dance until lis a. m, she told po-
lice.
She went to the Circle Motor Inn
to meet friends and there a man
she had met three years ago at
Ravenswood approached her.
Refuses Ride Invitation
She refused to ride home with him
and when her friends failed to ar
rive, walked to Washington st. to
take a street car.
While waiting for a car, the man
drove up with a second man in his
machine and she consented that he
take her home.
When they reached Beville Ave,
however, the ma nrefused to stop
saying he would take her to res
taurant to eat, Mrs. Mathews said
Instead of driving to a restaurant
however, they drove southeast of the
city to near the home Of G. L. Bur.
ton, r. r. 9, Box 545( where the tive
men attempted to attack her.
The woman's screams aroused
Burton and other members of hi,
family and as they approached the
car to investigate she escaped from
the automobile before the men hac
opportunity further to harm her.
Girl Tries to Escape
Burton took Mrs. Mathews to his
home and called police. She was
able to give police only a meager
description of the gas hawks and
could not remember the name of the
man she had met at Ravenswood.
The coupe carrying the screaming
girl, who was attempting to get out
of the machine, was sighted at 1870
a. m. at Kentucky Ave. ind the Belt
Railroad by the crossing watchman.
The car was being driven very
rapidly, he said.
He called police and Motor Po-
iicemen Mcclure and Viles cruised
out Kentucky Ave, but were un-
able to catch up with the speeding
car.
Alex Samardzieff, 80, of 3240 w.
Tenth ST., is held In the investiga-
ton of the attempt to lure a 12-
year-old girl from the Sunday
school picnic she was attending at
Riverside Park Friday afternoon.
The man invited her into his car
and offered to buy her "a good
dinner, the girl said. She ran to
group OF other children on the
picnic ground and the man followed.
Their screams brought two River
side golf course caddies, who chased
the man away.
Admits Being in Vicinity
The description given by the
caddies led to the arrest of Samard-
zieff later. He said he had been N
the neighborhood and that a girl
ran from him, but denied any at
tempt to get her into his machine.
Lewis Goble, %, of 2727 Stewart
ST., was condemned by Special Judge
Theophilus Mol as a "tin horn
sheik" in municipal court Friday
afternoon, but was freed of the
charge Of aiding in the kidnapping
OF Miss Nora Lee, 16, of 4100 E.
Twenty-First st., several weeks ago.
He was held for grand jury ac-
ton on 3, charge of irnpersonating
an officer.
Judge Moll ruled the evidence
showed that the girl was not forced
into the machine in which Goble
and Lester Bright were riding.
Bright is charged with forcing the
girl to drive with him to near Dan
vile, Ind, and attacking her after
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