Evening star., 1933-06-21
M'MATH GIRL TELLS
Jury OF KIDNAPPING
Brothers Accused Of Crime
Hear Child, 10, Relate
Her Experiences.

BARNSTABLE, Mass, June Il
CP.-Cyril Buck, who with his
brother, Kenneth, is charged with
the kidnapping of Margaret Peggy
McMath, collapsed on the witness
stand in Barnstable Superior Court
today as he started to testify in his
own defense.
BY the Associated Press.
BARNSTABLE, Mass. June al
Margaret Peggy McMatn was es-
corted to the witness stand in Barn.
stable Superior Court today to tell a
judge and jury of her kidnapping ex-
periences.
Before her sat Kenneth and Cyril
Buck, brothers, charged with the kid
naping For three days and nights, the
State contends, she was kept In the
company of Kenneth in cranberry
house. being led to believe he was her
friend who was shielding her from
kidnapers Peggy was scheduled as
the last witness for the prosecution.
The 10-year-old child brushed her
black hair back from her forehead with
a sweep of her hand as she answered
questions put to her by the smiling
prosecutor, william c. Crossley. As
the questions progressed the trace of
fear that had been apparent when
she first looked across the crowded
court room gradually faded from her
face. she shifted on her feet and put
her hands on the rail.
The little girl whose teacher had tes-
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of her habits while at school. She told
from school on the day of the kid
naping.
@. What did you see when you were
dismissed from school, Peggy?
A. saw a colored chauffeur.
@. What did hte man say?
A. He took slip out of his pocket
and said he was going to get Francis
cher brother), as there were guests at
the house.
Peggy said that after driving for some
distance she was ordered to climb from
the front into the back seat
@. Then what did the man say?
A. He said that if I hollered he
would chloroform me.
Bound and Blindfolded.
The man then bound her, Peggy said,
she held her arms out to illustrate how
it was DONE She then explained how
a piece of rag" was put around her
mouth and piece of brown cloth tied
over her eyes.
Peggy told then how the man, after
binding her. drove some distance and
then carried her into a "hoalse" She
said she knew this because she felt her
ho
The child testified she was kept in
the 'house" until late that night. She
said she was transferred from the
house" which the State commended
was a cranberry shack, in the darkness.
She said that, although she was blind
folded, she walked along hanging on
his coat"
She then described crawling under
the floor of the vacant house with the
aid of f1ashlight and finally reaching
mattress that had been stretched out
on the ground. The man brought her
sandwiches, milk and water.
She then went to sleep as the man
sat by her side.
Daylight came, she said, and the man
left. saying he was going to get her
tourist camp house as he wanted me
to sleep on a nice bed
AS she spoke, Kenneth gazed intently
at her.
Peggy told of the frequent visits of
her captor while she was under the
house on Wednesday, May g.; Thursday
and Thursday night. On Thursday
night he came to her, she said, and said
he might take her back to her parents.
Toy Handouts" Used.
She said Thursday night the man put
TOY handouts" on her anG that she
once took them of because they hurt"
but put them back on again. She held
out her hands to show how the hand
cuffs, which, she said, had no locks on
them, were fastened.
Tne little witness said that on the
night she was taken home the man
told her not to 60 near the door of the
cellar because some Of the gang"
might get her and he was, trying to
protect her from them She said they
then waited for "the car. to come
along"
She said the car came and she got
into the front seat. She was blind
folded, but, she said, she haq been told
her father would be in the car. They
rode in silence fer about two miles, she
said, then the car stopped aid she was
put in the rear seat with Der father
She smiled as she said she jumped into