Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-19
Abducted in Car,
Girl Leaps Out to
Foil Armed Captor

n 40-yCdI~OlQ girl was aD-
Quoted last night as she waited
in a church parking lot for a
meeting to begin, Fairfax
County police reported.
She jumped, screaming, from
the car and escaped unframed
more than an hour later
after her abductor had forced
her to drive him into Washing
ton in her car, police said.
Police in a 13-State area and
the FBI were searching today
for a man, who told the girl he
was an AWOL soldier, armed
with a .45-caliber automatic
and some hand grenades.
Tells Of Threat
Miss Barbara Louise Fitz-
gerald of $40 Spring drive,
Alexandria, told Fairfax County
Detective 1t. David R. Eike she
was sitting in her car shortly
before z pm. in the parking lot
OF the Mount Vernon Methodist
Church at 805 Belle View boule-
ward, Fairfax County, waiting
for a meeting to begin. A man
approached, she said, and asked
what time the meeting started.
Her account continued:
The man got, into the car
on the right side and told her:
IT am armed and if you don't
do what I tell you to do, I will
kill you" He had a zippered
overnight bag which, he said,
contained the pistol and gre
nades.
They drove through Alexan-
dria and stopped at a gas sta
ton north of Alexandria on the
Jefferson Davis highway. He
paid for the gas with 81 he
had taken from her purse.
While parked in the station,
he put his arm around Miss
Fitzgerald and tried to kiss her.
1--WE have to make this look
normal" she said he told her.
He then forced her to drive
into Washington and up Four
tenth street. At Aspen street,
where Fourteenth street meets
the Walter Reed Army Medical
Center, they stopped for a
traffic light.
While they were stopped,
Miss Fitzgerald jumped out
and ran, screaming, to the car
behind her auto. While she told
the driver, Jerry L. Menear,
755 Silver Spring avenue, what
had happened, the suspect sped
off in her car.
Mr.. Menear drove her to q
police station, where she re-
ported the incident.
Description Sent Out
State police broadcast a look
out for a white man, about Is
years old, 5 foot 5 inches tall,
weighing $50 to 100 pounds.
She said he had reddish hair
and was wearing dark horn
trimmed glasses and a bulky tan
slipover sweater with holes in
the left front.
Her car, which has not yet
been recovered, was described
as a 1859 Chevrolet two-door
hardtop, black with a white
streak down the side. The Vir-
GINA license is 35-155.
The pastor of the Mount
Vernon Methodist Church, the
Rev. Lee S. Warner, said Miss
Fitzgerald was an honor queen
in the Jobs Daughters chapter
of the church. He said she had
been attending instruction
classes at the church each Sun
day evening for about a year.
Several of the members of
her class noted her absence last
night, he said. She had at
tended the installation of a new
chapter of Jobs Daughters in
the afternoon at the nearby
Aldersgate Methodist Church
and said at that time that she
would see her friends at the
evening meeting, Mr.. Warner
said.
Mr.. Warner said the church
parking lot is illuminated.
Miss Fitzgerald is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm
Fitzgerald. Her father is an
engineer in the lingering Re-
search and Development Lab
oratory at Fort Belvoir. She also
works at the laboratory. Her
mother is nurse at the Fort
Belvoir Hospital.