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Show ii 'I Torn From Her Escort ;l I After a Desperate, j I Struggle I New York, Sept. 25. The we6 side i' I police are searching today for Ircno j. H Westlcy, a comely 17-year-old girl, Y, ; H who was kidnaped by four unldenti- H fled men early today as Bho'waG re- ij. . H turning home with James eKrns, an jj H turning home with James Kerns, an r H beaten into Insensibility by repeated. V) H blows from a beer bottle wielded by l H one of tho assailants and 13 dying ' JH In the New York hospital with a frac-, -' ' H tured skull. ' H Kerns was found by a policeman ly- 1 JH lng unconscious on the porch of his H west Sixteenth street homo.. In .a ij H brief period of consciousness, while , JH tho ambulance doctor was bandaging , M his wounds, he told the policemen all ' M he knew of the attack. He had been -H at a party with Miss Westlcy, Ijo said, and was escorting her home j fl 'when hn was set upon by the -TSen, H none of whom ho recognized. Both ho M and the girl fought them, but, aftor , H knocking him down, they picked her 'JH up bodily and rushed off toward the rl river. H |