Show Believes Child Was Abducted ri j J 4 4 I V r rN MRS SHIRLEY M. M WEST WES AND DAUGHTER MARJORY year old girl disappeared on family picnic trip Mother Pleads PI ads With Kidnaper To Return 1 Year Old Y ear Old Girl r i BRADFORD Pa May 11 AP AP Mrs Shirley M. M West expressing expressing ex ex- ex- ex pressing fear her year old daughter Marjory had been abducted appealed today for the return of her er child to any American Legion po post t or her home I In n a brief rief statement the first she first she has made since the daughter disappeared disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis- dis appeared from from a f family ily pi picnic lic last Jast Sunday while picking flowers the moth mother r r said I want notice given that anybody any anybody anybody any any- body who has her should return her hr to any American legi legion m post anywhere or bring her home No will questions be asked The kidnap theory came after a fruitless search of the woods in wh which ch she disappeared and reports from Thomas W. W Va that a girl wearing clothes similar to Marjory's was brought there Monday by an unidentified man State Trooper L. L V V. Minnick of Thomas said the man stopped in inthe inthe the Jie evening at a hotel took the girl to a room without eating and left early the next day without giving his lis name Paul Valentine of Parsons W. W Va a guest at the hotel said he was awakened by the girls girl's sobs and saw her in a dim hallway with the man She wore a red hat a blue dress and had dark hair She appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to be 3 or 4 years old he said Minnick said the hotel clerk told him the theman man acted strangely and left hurriedly with the girl in a sedan West Virginia Virgin a police today were patrolling highways leading from Thomas to the Maryland line and mountain trails in search of the car The of investigation tion in Pittsburgh requested information information information mation on the case and a description description description tion of the girl but agents said they had not received a complaint or started an investigation Meanwhile weary splattered mud-splattered searchers turned their hunt in the woods to the Bears BearE Den Den a a bear and snake infested spot suot atop high Lev Level tevel l mountain 11 miles southwest C of f Bradford Bloodhounds brought here liere by New ew York state poli police e who joined the he hundreds' hundreds of men and boys in inthe inthe the he hunt picked up the trail yes yesterday esterday es- es erday but lost it Searching parties n a national a t ion I o n a I guardsmen members of the Ameri American Amer Arner- i dan ican an legion high school students and C 9 C C youths youths who who had helped cover over a six-mile six area were sent to their heir homes or camps amps last night while their leaders held a conference conference confer confer- ence nce to discuss how to proceed As the hundreds Who had volunteered volun volun- volunteered their aid tramped homeward I through a a. cold coId drizzle that was was I sometimes chilled still more by sleet I Ithe the ho dogs' dogs handlers explained that fewer men in the woods would give the hounds a chance to work un un- un- un impeded |