The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-04-29
IS "KIDNAP" VICTIM

KANSAS CITY, April 29.-Ran- somed for $50, ,o0O-safe in her home i for nearly two years-Mary McElroy still is a "kidnap victim"-suffer- ing from a distress that has dogged | her mind almost from the moment her kidnapers were captured.
 She is the slender, brunette, 26- year old daughter of Judge H. F. McElroy, city manager of Kansas City. It has been almost two years since she hastily completed a bath in her home at the behest of rough voices she thought belonged to some pranksters. There was no joke about it. The rough voices were those of her kidnapers.
 In Jefferson City, only a few weeks separates Walter H. McGee from the gallows where he will atone for his part in the kidnap- ing-unless the Missouri Supreme Court grants a rehearing on his conviction. Should that fail, only communication by Gov. Guy B. Park can save him from dying May 10.
 Had Nervous Breakdown
 Mary McElroy has had several nervous breakdowns. Two followed trials in which her testimony con- victed kidnapers. During one break down early this year, she disap- peared from home without notice and II hours later was found on a bus at Normal, H.
 She wired Judge McElroy: Sorry, but am so frightened. Don't know what I'm doing"
 She came back to Kansas City by plane. At the airport she was still the game kid" She told her father her flight had been ''okey- doke." Then she collapsed in his arms.
 Her efforts to minimize her kid naping have been apparent from the first. Restored to her home, after being held, one arm chained to a wall, in the basement of a house near Shawnee, Kan, she bantered friends, newsmen, photographers.
 Holds No Hard Feelings
 She explained that she bore no malice toward her captors. They were business men,, who did not threaten her.
 The arm of the law reached out and gathered in three of her four abductors. They were McGee, his brother. George, now serving a life sentence, and Clarence Click, serv- ing an eight-year term. It was her Identification that clinched the case against them at the trial in De- cember, 1883.
 T hold no personal hard feelings against them and I am sure today that they do not hold hard feel ings against me.
 That's what makes the situation all the worse. I have nightmares about those men and the fates they brought on themselves. l was part of the drama that fixed their destiny"
 A Shot Through Window
 But apparently it was not "their destiny" alone that had been in fluenced. In January, 1884, Miss McElroy went to California for nine weeks. In April, after her return, an unidentified person sent bullet through a front window of the Mo Elroy home. No one within was harmed.
 The following summer Judge Mo Elroy and his daughter made a five week tour of Europe. She said she had grand time"
 Questioned as to the reason. for making her strange journey to Hi nois, Miss McElroy said.
 ITO get away. Not to have to see people and face people who know me as the city managers daughter and the girl who was kid naped by a man who faces a death sentence, and by two other men sentenced to prison.
 Did you ever feel as if you just couldn't stand it a minute longer and must do something or go some where?"
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