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Show NO CLUE FOUND TO ABDUCTORS OF CEDAR GIRL Ruth Leigh, Kidnaped Last Thursday Night, Found ia Toquerville Friday in Semi-Conseious Condition Officers of Washington and Iron Counties are making every effort to learn the identity of two men who late last Thursday night kidnaped kid-naped Miss Ruth Leigh, 20, from her home at Cedar City, taking her as far as Toquerville before she escaped while they were repairing re-pairing their car. . In a semi-conscious condition, bruised and cut about the wrists and ankles as the result of being bound by wire by her abductors, the girl staggered into the home of Douglas Manning at Toquerville Friday morning at 7:30. Her father, fa-ther, J. D. Leigh, Cedar City business busi-ness man, was notified, and he came to Toquerville, taking his daughter back to Cedar with him. Officers were not notified at the time, but late in the afternoon after-noon Sheriff Louis Fife of Iron county learned of the affair and immediately called Sheriff Wm. Brooks. The two went to Toquerville Toquer-ville and remained there all night making an investigation and checking check-ing up the girl's movements since she escaped from the car between 3 and 4 o'clock Friday morning. The officers found where she had first left the car on the newly new-ly constructed fill about a mile the other side of Toquerville. From. , that point they followed her shoe imprints through the creek and fields back to the old winery at Toquerville. From there she had made her way to the home of Mr. Manning. She was in a partial comal state and could give only an incoherent account of the kidnaping. kid-naping. (Continued on page 2) CEDAR GIRL KIDNAPED (Continued from page 1) After being talc en to Cedar she recovered somewhat and told her story. At first the officers were inclined in-clined to believe that the kidnaping kidnap-ing was a hoax, and that she was trying to conceal something, but after further questioning they were convinced she was telling the truth. According to her story she had gone out to her father's garage, about 100 yards from her home, late Thursday night, to get some bocks she had left in the car, and just as she was leaving the building two men grabbed her and threwr her back into the machine. While one stifled her screams the other bound her ankles and wrists with baling wire. One remained in the rear seat with her while the other drove the car from the garage. After going a short distance they forced her to drink a liquid from a small flask, and after that she became unconscious. Some time during the night she was transferred to another machine. Her father's car was found the next morning a few miles above Bellevue. The gas tank was empty. About four o'clock in the morning, morn-ing, according to her story, she partially regained consciousness. Tire car had stopped and she w?aa in it alone. She heard the men to one side and it seemed they w"ere making repairs. Her ankles and wrists w;ere bound and two handkerchiefs hand-kerchiefs had been stuffed into her mouth as a gag. She slipped off a shoe and drew her foot out of the wire. She managed to open a door and slip out unnoticed. After Af-ter leaving the machine she partially par-tially recognized her surroundings and started out in the general direction di-rection of Toquerville, and after wandering around in the darkness for several hours finally reached the town. Only a very indefinite description descrip-tion of the men could be given. It was dark in the garage when she was abducted and she could not see them distinctly. She said they were both young and poorly dressed. dress-ed. She -remembered nothing from the time she was forced to take a drink from the flask until she awoke on the highway east of Toquerville To-querville between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning. Two young men from the eastern east-ern part of the county who were known to have been in Cedar City that night, were suspected but after af-ter an investigation were released. releas-ed. The officers are at a loss, both 3S to who committed the crime and as to a motive. |