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Show TWO KIDNAPERS ELUDEJOSSES CTNTERVTXLE. Ind, Dm XI (UP) Stat polio and special deputise dep-utise pressed their search today for two men who kidnaped -year-old Joha Bryan Christmas eve, then released him unharmed when ham pared by dose pursuit of Irate citi-eena. citi-eena. The car which the men used in then- flight was found hut night en- a lonely road near Newcastle, Ind, 40 miles west of CenterviUe. The boy, son of John L. Bryan, moderately wealthy cashier of the CenterviUe State bank, was kidnaped kid-naped for (3800 ransom. No money was paid. Phone Call Forced When the abduction occurred Mrs. Bryan was vlsitlna her hua- band. The men entered the home and forced the child's 17-year-old nurse, Norma Schroy, to telephone Mrs. Bryan and tell her to return home. Then one of the man fled with Miss Schroy and the baby. When Mrs. Bryan returned the remaining re-maining gunman ordered her to call her husband and say: "Bring noma tidOO quickly or you'll never see your son again. Instead of obeying, Bryan ran to the atreet and summoned passers-by passers-by and employes of near-by stores. They harried to the home, arriving aa the remaining desperado aped away In the Bryan auto with Mrs. Bryan and Julian Dunbar, a grocer, who went to the home ha his truck. The group exchanged shots with the fleeing gunman, but be escaped. Arrival of the crowd, however, had disrupted ths men's plans. An Beltaail Mrs. Bryan and Dunbar were released re-leased 10 miles northwest of the) city. The baby and nurse were pushed out of the other gunman's car near a farm homo after they had been held captive, for more than two hour. "The kidnaper said he had no plana to keep us prisoners for a long time," Miss Schroy said. "He waa worried because the other man didn't appear. So h said ha would have to 1st us go." Officers believed the kidnaper met Baturday near Newcastle, abandoned aban-doned the Bryaa ear the en recovered re-covered and drove off In their own machine. |