Evening star., 1933-05-06
Peggy's Story
Child Tells of Experience
in the Hands of the
Kidnapers.
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They drove away in an easterly direc-
ton. She noticed black cloth was
hung over the instrument board by
court plaster.
Finally they turned into a small road
through some woods and stopped near
a cranberry bog. She had never seen
the place before.
While We were riding the man said
to me III you make any noise or try
to get out, Ill chloroform you,'" Peggy
said.
Promised to Be Quiet.
He told me to get in the back.
saw ropes and handouts on the floor
The man tied a black cloth about my
face, so as to blindfold me, made me
lie in the back seat, facing the back,
tied my arms to my body, put hand
cuffs on me, and then made another
tie around my hips.
He started to stuff clothes in my
mouth. but I asked him not to do that,
and promised not to make any noise.
He didn't stuff any more rags in, but
got in the front seat and backed the
car up
She said they rode long time
Then" she said, I'VE stopped and
another man carried me into a little
shack. I could hear voices and he told
me his overcoat for q pillow.
by putting my knees up I could
move my blindfold a little. There was
no furniture in the room and the shack
looked dilapidated. There was no light
In the room, but streaks of light came
through cracks in the wall
Late that (Tuesday) night a man
came and got me. He took the hand
cuffs of, but left the blindfold on He
took me outdoors and We walked about
a mile across mud Once he held me
in his arms while he jumped ditch.
Once a dog barked.
Put in Storage Space.
I'VE arrived at another shack and he
put me in q tool-storage place under
the shack. The storage place had ce-
ment walls and the man took the blind
fold off. I stayed there the rest of
Tuesday night. Wednesday and Thurs
day night. During the day was left
alone, but couldn't get out, as the man
had locked the door.
After dark he entered with flash
light and brought me ham sandwich,
some cocoa and some milk. I asked
for something else, but he said that
was all the food he had.
1T was then I saw his white hands
by the light of the fashlight.
He told me not to make noise,
that kidnap gang was trying to get
me. He said that he would arrange to
get me back to my mother and father.
That was Thursday.
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automobile again. He told me my
father was in the back seat. After we
had driven for a while he took the
blindfold off,
II got in the back seat with my
father Cyril Buck was driving and
man with a hood over his head was
sitting in the front seat beside him. I
think the hooded man was the one who
fed me. His hood had two points on it.
He looked like bunny.
Left on Boat With Father.
After a long drive we reached a
pond (Wychmere Harbor) and we went
aboard the Bob.
"They left daddy and aboard and
all we could find to eat was soup.
Daddy said we'd have to stay there
48 hours, that the men had made him
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long without telling any one where we
were.
This afternoon Friday) a Coast
Guard boat came alongside and daddy
said there's no use in hiding any
longer We got of the boat and I was
awfully relieved"
Gen. Needham, after giving out the
girls story, said she was brick" and
that she answered all questions clearly
and "smartly."