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not permit her to return to New York
until she posted $1,000 bond as a
material witness. Efforts were being
made to communicate with former
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Dean Acheson. a friend of her father,
regarding the bond
Previously Mr.. Acheson had sent
Herbert Gallop, clerk in MS law
office in the Union Trust Building, to
Rockville to escort Miss Kiendl to
Union Station, where she planned to
entrain for New York. Mr.. Gallop
made the trip in Mr. Acheson's Car,
operated by the former Government
officials colored chauffeur.
Miss Kiendl was in the police car
during the pursuit. the shooting and
the capture of Jackson after his auto
mobile knocked down several sections
of fence and hit tree She admitted
being terribly thrilled" by all the
excitement, although badly fright
ened at first
Miss Kiendl told reporters that she
got bit weary attending classes at
the Sarah Lawrence School, near her
home. and decided to skip" out for
Virginia, where she could 60 horse
back riding with friends. The girl
said she loved horses. She drove
away yesterday without telling her
parents where she was headed.
In Alexandria, the girl said, she be-
gan to feel sorry for her hasty act
and decided to return home. While
passing through Washington she got
off the route to New York and be-
came aware that a car was trailing
hers as she aft the oa.ykirts of
Washington.
The girl drove faster. and the other
car kept pace, Upon making a sharp
curve about midway between Four
Corners and Wheaton the pursuing car
pulled alongside and forced the girls
sedan from the highway. Miss Kiendl
said the driver called Stop" and she
thought at first he might be a police
man.
Fled Into Woods.
The colored man came up to the
car and demanded damages for a
fender he had bumped in pushing
her car from the road, Miss kiendl
said. Frightened, she offered the man
a dollar, which he refused Miss Kiendl
fled into the woods when the man
climbed into the front seat He ap-
parently made no attempt to follow
her.
The girl fled through the woods and
fields, arriving breathless and badly
frightened at the home of Mrs. Thelma
Lee, 96l6 Fairway avenue. who tele-
phoned police officers I. K. Hover
and Charles T. Barnes responded.
The officers drove to the Lee home;
took Miss Kiendl in their car. and
returned to the abandoned automobile
AS they drove up the policemen re-
ported, they saw Jackson ransacking
Miss kiendls automobile. On catch
ing sight of the officers. Jackson
jumped from the sedan, ran to his car
and drove away.
Police Chase Suspect.
The police car followed at a high
rate of speed Officer Hover drove
while the other policemen leaned from
a front window to shoot at the tires
of the fleeing car. Miss Kiendl rode
in the tonneau and made no protest
the officers said.
The chase continued for about 6
mile, until Jackson's car failed tc
make a narrow turn and ran down g
side road The car hit a fence or
one side of the road, then swung back
and crashed through a section on the
other side, coming to halt against 8
tree Jackson was captured unin.
jured and without resistance.
The officers said Miss Kiendl left
her purse containing SO in her cal
When she fled and the money wa!
found on Jackson, along with the
girls vanity case, lipstick and rouge
and a large photograph of her.
Jackson at first told police that Mis-!
Kiendl's car collided with his OF
Eastern avenue near Michigan avenue
NE. and that he had followed her II
an effort to collect damages. Jackson
declared the collision damaged his
front fender.
Police said there were no marks Of
collision on Miss Kiendl's car. Jack
sons automobile was damaged con-
siderably when it crashed into the two
fences.
At the preliminary hearing, Officer
Barnes testified that Jackson later ad-
mitted that he followed the girls car
with the intention Of robbing her wher
she got out of town.
Miss Kiendl, dressed in plaid sport
suit and a blue hat trimmed with a
jaunty feather, seemed more than a
little apprehensive when informed
while seated in court, that her father
wished to speak to her by long distance
"Oh. daddy" she cried into the
transmitter. I'm so sorry, but there's
nothing to worry about-I'm all right
I never ran away before and I'll never
again"
Then Miss Kiendl, noticing report
ers and photographers outside the tele.
phone booth, said, II can't tell you all
about it now, daddy, unless you want
the whole world to know!"
Had Consent, Mother Says.
NEW YORK, April 5 (P).-Helen v
Kiendl is the debutante daughter OF
MIR. and Mrs. Theodore Kiendl OF
New York and Bronxville, N. Y. Her
father is an attorney.
Mrs Kiehdl said her daughter was
on spring vacation from Sarah Law.
renee College in Bronxville, where
she is a student, and had gone to
Virginia to visit friends with her par
ents' full knowledge and consent" :.
Miss Kiendl Is a graduate of the
Spence School and made her debut
last December.