KIDNAPPED!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2348, 29 October 1921, Page 2

KIDNAPPED!

EX-SISTER LIGOURI

CARRIED OFF BY TWENTY MEN

ANOTHER SENSATION IN ( SYDNEY.

Sydney, Oct. 27

Ex-Sister Ligouri (Miss Bridget Partridge), when returning home with friends at eleven o’clock last night, was kidnapped by twenty men and carried off in a motor ear. Her whereabouts is unknown.

In a statement to the police, the Rev. Mr Touched, at whose home at Bunvood Miss Partridge was staying, explained that Joseph Partridge, the ex-nun’s brother, was going to Ireland by the Ceramic, and wanted his sister to go with him, but she declined. Mr Touched also stated that Miss Partridge wrote to her brother, declining his protection. The party was returning from a religious meeting, and had just reached Mr Touched’s gate, when the attackers appeared. Iu the scrimmage, Mr Touched was somewhat roughly handled, and Mrs Touched and another of the party were knocked down in attempting to rescue Miss Partridge, who was borne to a motor- car and hurried away.

The police are actively searching for her.

Mr Touched intends to invoke the Habeas Corpus Act. He states that a few. days ago he was warned by a Roman Catholic that a plot was afoot to kidnap Miss Partridge. Mrs Touched stated that Mss Partridge feared the influence of the Catholic Church, and had dccidded to embrace the Protestant faith. At her request a bodyguard had always been provided.

DISCOVERED IN THE CITY

TAKEN TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS.

Sydney, Oct. 2S.

Ex-Sister Ligouri was discovered in a city street in company with a friend of her brother, and at her own request she was taken to the police headquarters, stating that she was forcibly removed from her home last night, and that she wanted protection. Later, all the parties interested, including ex-Sister Ligouri’s brother, met at a round-tile-tabic conference at the police headquarters, /at which ex-Sister Ligouri announced that she would not go to her brother, nor to the Roman Catholic Church. Before (he conference, the ex-Sister stated that she was taken last night in a motor car to a Justice of (lie Peace, and there signed a statement that, she was prepared to go under her brother’s protection, providing he found a suitable place for her. She refrained, under her solicitor’s advice, from making any further explanation of her adventures, beyond that she was being taken somewhere when discovered. [Miss Partridge caused a sensation last year when she escaped from a convent at Wagga. Bishop Dwyer caused her apprehension as she was deemed to be insane. She was brought before the Lunacy Court in Sydney, and was discharged. Miss Partridge then sued Bishop Dwyer for £5,000 damages for alleged malicious arrest. The case caused a great sensation in Sydney, and after a lengthy hearing a verdict was given for Bishop Dwyer, the jury declaring that he was not actuated by malice.]