GIRL'S SORY OF KIDNAPPING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 79, 10 April 1913, Page 8

GIRL'S SORY OF KIDNAPPING.

DECOYED AND DRUGGED

A well-dressed girl of 17 told a remarkable story at Kingston recently. She was Lily Farrow, of Trinity SquarS, Brixton, and she was> charged with failing to comply with the terms of a probation order.

Asked why she had failed to report herself to the officer since December 20 last, she said that after she was charged at the court she obtained a situation as a typist to a firm in Bond Street. While walking along Piccadilly on Christmas Eve a well-dressed man accosted her, and asked her to go with him to a restaurant to have supper. She said, "No; lam not coming," but he pressed her. While they were talking he hailed a passing taxi-cab, and before she realised anything she found herself in the cab, which was speeding off somewhere. They had not been seated in the cab very long before she recoverd her senses, and she asked where she was being taken. The stranger •then threw a largo piece of cotton-wool over her face, and she remembered no more until she found herself with the stranger in an hotel in the West End, the name of which she gave. Shortly afterwards, when the man was called away, she escaped from the hotel. When she had reached the Marble Arch another man, seeing her condition, asked her what was the matter, and she told him tltat she had just escaped from a man who had tried to make a "white slave" of her. This

nan took pity on her, found her apartm(M)is at Brixton, and, having heard the whole of her story, placed it before the police, with the result that two men were arrested, and were to be charged in London. The magistrates decided to remand :ho girl for a week in custody, pending the hearing of tho case in London. GIRL WITH A PAST. Tho charge against tho two men was duly heard at Marylebone Police Court, and accused being Mr E. Isaacs and Mr J. Goldstein. Mr Herbert Muskett, who conducted the case, asked that tho accused should be discharged. Tho girl, he said, was the daughter of a rcsp ctable blacksmith. Sin* had robbed har father*, and had had to leave her situation in Suffolk for misconduct, had been charged at Kingston, in Surrey, with larceny, and put on probation for two years, and since then had been in tho Lock Hospital and Rescue Home. She had. a particularly evil ind dangerous habit of making charges winch had no foundation in fact.

Mr Harrington Matthews explained that his client, Mr Goldstein, made the acquaintance of tho girl Farrow in January, and became infatuated. She deceived him. and it wa:; in con-

sequence of a statement that she made to him about. Isaacs that the seen:' occurred at tho hotel in Bayswater which led to both of them In ing arrested. He now regretted having been mixed up with "this most no toi'ious liar," and also regrott d his attitude towards Mr Isaacs, who. until that night, was an absolute s'rarger to him.

Mr Paul Taylor, in ordering a dig charge, said tho girl could o:>Iy h

described a.s a seriou3 danger to so ciety.