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Show Then Escapes, Hides in Church and Is Found by a Priest New York, Feb. 7. An 11-year-old girl's story of her escape from kidnappers kid-nappers by hiding behind the curtains of the confessional in a Brooklyn Catholic church, started detectives on a hunt for the gang of Italians who are believed to have tried to abduct her. The girl, Marie Coleman, is the Idaughter of a well-to-do Brooklyn manufacturer. She was found in SL Michael's Roman Catholic chudch shortly before midnight by the Rev. Father Win. McGuirl. Between hysterical sobs, tho little girl told the priest that she had hidden hid-den In the confessional at G o'clock in the evening, after having run away from two men who had tried to kidnap kid-nap her and that she had not dared to come out of her place of refuge. ' After the father had quieted the little girl, she told a very clear story of how, when she had come out of Hchool, a man had lured ber to a distant dis-tant section by telling her that her mother was ill and In a strange house. Subsequently this man hrfd been joined join-ed by another and thoy had taken Marie over a route which she remembers remem-bers so perfectly that the police believe be-lieve they can locate the place. The men stopped at a yellow house, but before she was inside the door Marie became suspicious. She ran screaming down the street, and, although al-though the pair caught ier and started start-ed back with her, she struggled loose again and ran several blocks to the church. With the men close behind, she dodged In through the open door and hid In the dark. The priest's discovery of the hidden hid-den girl was by accident. At 10 o'clock Father McGuirl entered the dark church alone to pray. During (he course of his devotions, he thought he heard sobbing. He made a casual search of the church, but found nothing noth-ing and went back to the rectory. But after he went to bed he could not sleep. The conviction that somebody In distress was locked In tho church persisted and he arose about midnight mid-night and dressed himself. A second time he went Into the church. After some minutes spent In search he pushed aside the curtains to one of the confessional boxes and there, In the dim light cast by the lantern, saw a little girl lying with her head on a bundle of school books. She was dazed and sobbed hysterically. The priest took her Into the rectory and. after he had comforted her to some extent, got her story and reported It to the police. oo |