Evening star., 1946-08-02
Convict and Bride, Is,
Held After kidnapping
OF State Trooper
BY the Assoeicfed Press


TRENTON, N. j., Aug. 2.-The
one-day honeymoon of an escaped
convict and his 16-year-old bride
ended abruptly last night when they
were captured several hours after
kidnapping State Trooper Charles r.
hell at gun point and holding him
captive until his escape under a
hail of bullets.
Their capture-near Hopewell-
ended what police said was the most
intensive New Jersey manhunt since
the same patch of wooded area was
combed in a search for the Lind
bergh baby
Trooper Kell had stopped the pair
near Raritan in Somerset County
for speeding.
The first to be captured was the
girl, identified by State Police Supt.
Charles H. Schoeffel as Constance
Ethel Blondell Doak. She was taken
when her husband fled on foot from
their car as police closed in on them.
But mile and half away, the
man, identified by Supt. Schoeffel
AS August Bernard Doak several
hours later, was caught by lone
trooper as he tried to cross the
Hopewell railroad bridge.
Supt. Schoeffel said Doak fed
from a Southern Michigan prison
September %, 1945.
State police at the Somerville
barracks said early today Doak was
being held on an open charge and
probably would be arraigned in
3ridgewater Township
The girl told Supt. Schoeffel she
and Doak were married Wednesday
night at Elkton, Md, and were en-
route to visit her mother and STEP
father who live in New York.
Police gave this account of the
days events:
Trooper Kell saw the couple
speeding in their car and gave
chase but was knocked from his
motorcycle when the automobile
swerved into him. Before he could
recover he was held up at gun
point, disarmed and forced into the
car.
The couple drove the trooper to
Pleasant Run in Hunterdon County,
where they stopped the car and
Doak ordered him out to remove his
shirt
Trooper Kell later quoted Doak
as saying, you're too much trouble.
Take off your shirt. I'm wanted
and can't have you on my hands"
Instead, Trooper Kell kicked Doak
In the groin and fed under a fusiI-
lade of shots.
Then the pair got back into the
car and raced to Hopewell-and
capture.
Supt. Schoeffel quoted the girl as I
saying she met Doak last April in |
Memphis after she had been re-
leased from a correction home in
Nashville. State police said the pair
toured Alabama, Mississippi, Ken
lucky and other Southern States be-
fore starting north to New York.
Supt. Schoeffel said both Doak's
parents live in Sidney, Ohio, and
that the convict had another wife, |
Mabel Doak. who lives in Detroit. :
In New York, Constanees step !
father and mother, DR.. and Mrs.
Frank Clemente, expressed dismayl
over their daughters plight. 4
"She never even hinted that
anything was wrong" they said
of course, we thought she was too
young to get married, but all her
letters told how happy she was so
we figured that maybe everything
was turning out all right II
Mrs. Clemente said that three
years ago when Constance was 13i
she married soldier but the mar-s
riage was annulled. In May, 1914 I
she ran away from home, Mrs.i
Clemente said, and after the girl
was found in Nashville Mrs Gle
mente said she agreed to place
Constance in the Convent of Good
Shepherd in Memphis.
Mrs. Clemente said she went to
Memphis when Constance was due
to leave the convent on May 80 but
on arriving learned that her daugh-
ter had vanished with Doak At
that time, she said a friend of
Doak's assured her don't worry,
your daughter is in good hands"
Both DR.. and Mrs. Clemente told
of receiving letters from the girl
telling of happy life. They said
they had planned to take a larger
apartment so the couple could live
uritlo thapo