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Show POLICE SEARCH FOR THUGS WHO KIDNAP GIRL Bound in Her Own Home. Found Unconscious on Street. . OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 29. (U.P.) Scores of police and detectives today were searching for the. two. kidnapers of Mary Ellen Mellon, 20, step-daughter of R. B. Halliburton, wealthy Oklahoma City merchant. " ' ., Miss Mellon was bound and gagged shortly after midnight by two men believed by police to hnve ljeen. burglars, an(i enrried from. her home. She was found an hour later by W. D. Long, hospital guard, lying ly-ing on the street tinder a street light. ' ' Miss Mellon was at her home today to-day in a highly nervous condition following her harrowing experience. experi-ence. Contrary to early reports 'of the young society woman's abduction, .Miss Mellon is not a niece of Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon. Mel-lon. Her father, before his death, wns a prominent Oklahoma City merchant. mer-chant. Miss Mellon said she was aroused by a noise in their home and went downstairs to investigate. Two men seized her, tied and gngged her. Her parents, aroused by a scream, ran downstairs but Miss Mellon hiid been carried away by her abdncrors. "They placed me In the back seat of a Ford bii't I must have fainted after that," the young woman said. |