The Washington times., 1933-05-04
GIRL BECOMES
. SICK ON AUTO
EXCURSIONS
Mrs. McMath Writes Message
To Gangsters; Advises Them
About ChiId'S Diet
BY DOROTHY DUCAs

ny OOhOIhx OONAS
HARWICH, Mass, May 4
UN.s)-Peggy McMath's mother
today asked her daughter to be a
good girl and to do whatever she
Is told by the .kidnapers.
The gentle-faced mother, break
ing her silence when 48 hours had
passed with no word from her
first born, followed the example
Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh in is
suing through the newspapers ad-
vice as to the care Of her child.
Needs Gum in Auto
'Tf it Is necessary to take
Peggy in an automobile, please
supply her with gum, because Of
car sickness"
The pathetic appeal was read
off by William Lee before the ga
rage Of his house from paper
on which the mother herself had
penciled the message.
Gas to her diet, she likes
meats and is very fond Of milk,
fruits and vegetables. She does
mot care for turnips or spinach"
"Her mother and father both
wish her to be q good girl and
do Just exactly as she is told"
Peggy is very fond Of animals,
Mrs. McMath continued, her own
dog, q setter, having died last
January.
"She would love nothing
more than a puppy or q kitten
to play with"
Peggy's bedtime is 8 p. m, she
added, hoping that the regularity
Of the girls schedule might be
adhered to in whatever camp,
cabin or building in which she
might be prisoner.
Sleeps Five Hours
The mothers message, coming
on the heels Of intimations that
police are working on clues which
have brought new hope to the
child's family, demonstrated
vividly that she has no doubt
Peggy is alive and in the hands
Of humane persons.
Indeed, every act of Margaret
McMath since she first learned,
with sickening certainty, that her
daughter had been. stolen, has
been touched with philosophic
calm.
She slept from five to six hours
last night, and all her waking
hours have been spent at her
husbands side, with Lee and his
assistant, Harold Sawyer.
Another Hope Gone!
The family. sitting in the CO.
Ionial house with its brown,
white and orange cretonne drapes
and slip covers, has been buoyed
by q report of the discovery Of
the negro who was driving the
car in which Margaret, crying,
was last seen at the school house.
It was another false report.
Mrs. McMath, a woman in her
late thirties, is tall, dark and
good looking; her daughter is
said to resemble her slightly. She
is a graduate Of VasSar and lived
all her girlhood in Detroit. where
her father. head Of structural
steel company, is friend and
business associate Of Henry Ford.
Winters In South
She spent many winters in
South Carolina, where Kales has
an estate at Tryon. There the
family employed many darkies
Of the Dixie variety, but there
never has been a colored en-
ploye on the estate here.
Used to this section, Margaret
McMath knows its East Harwich
county, center Of voodoo worship
on the cape. A colony lying be.
tween Brewster and Harwich is
especially well known by natives.
The residents Of this district
are Portuguese negroes, known as
Bravas, from the Cape Verde
Islands. Recently witch doctors
practiced their cures by fire and
blood near here. Police say that
so per cent Of the crime com.
mitted on the cape has its roots
in the Bravo settlements.