Evening star., 1949-09-11
Nv the Associoted Press

BY fhe A$Soeiofeo rfesS
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 10
jamie Franz, 4, safe and sound
after a night with a strange man,
told her daddy today: Il will
never 60 riding with a stranger
again"
The man she said took her In
his auto yestrday from her Tren-
ton IN. j. neighborhood was
booked here on charges of kidnap-
ing and indecent assault. He
gave his name as Gerald A. HUT,
35, of Bridgeport, Conn, and said
he was a brush salesman es-
tranged from his wife and two
children.
Hutt waived extradition an4 was
taken to Trenton for arraignment
tonight before Police Judge Albert
w. Cooper, jr.
Judge Cooper ordered Hutt held
In $50,000 bail for action OF the
Mercer County grand jury on a
kidnapping charge.
The defendant entered a plea
of guilty during the Commute
hearing.
Under New Jersey law, maxi
mum punishment for kidnapping
is life Imprisonment. Judg e
Cooper said the Federal Lind
bergh law, which carries the death
penalty, applies only If ransom
has been asked.
Reunited With Father.
jamie and her father, John
Franz, Trenton truck driver, were
reunited in a Philadelphia station
The little girl sat on her daddy s
lap as he stroked her head. They
spoke in whispers.
The little girl was reported miss
ing late yesterday. Playmates
said a stranger took her into a
battered car and drove away. She
was found this morning standing
beside the Philadelphia ATTENTION
highway.
Thank God, thank God," Sob
bed the mother when a reporter
told her the child was safe.
Mrs, Franz did not accompany
her husband to Philadelphia ou1
waited at home for him to return
with their only child.
AS they sat talking with report
ers in the police station Mr.. Franz
asked his daughter why she went
with a stranger.
Rejected Invitation.
The child who will be f1ve IN
November, replied:
HE called me over, Daddy. and
said, do you want to take a ride
with me. said no. He said
sure, you want to take ride, and
pulled me into the car.
81 said want to see my Mommy
and Daddy but the man said.
Well go for a little ride and then
I'll bring you home
"I'll never go for a ride with q
stranger again, Daddy"
jamie and her father were driven
home by Detective Sergt. Francis
Fagin of Trenton. who had
brought Franz to Philadelphia
with a warrant charging Hutt
with kidnapping.
Outside the Franz apartment IN
Trenton well over 100 persons had
gathered.
However, when jamie and her
dad arrived. Mrs. Franz had been
taken to her mothers noms
nearby.
Crying Mother Greets Child.
Pale and wan. the crying mother
greeted the two and all rushed
upstairs. Later they came out tc
pose for pictures. Mrs. Franz
turned to the child and said. "Set
all the commotion you caused "
H. Howard Volpe, Mercer County
IN. j. prosecutor. said he had M
plans for a sanity test for HUT ye,
"because he has not shown an:
signs of insanity"
jamie. washed and wea, ing fresl
clothes, appeared with ner parents
at tonight's arraignmert in Sec.
ond District Court, Trenton
Mrs. Franz asked permission t.
talk to Hutt and she stood in &
doorway as the prisoner pssset
into the cell block. As 81 e looket
at him, Hutt murmured "I'n
sorry"
Later Mrs. Franz said "I fee
sorry for him. He looks pathetic.
jamie had a small red mark o,
her right cheek and Mrs Fran
explained that the child said, H
(Hutt) burned me- with a cipa rette