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Show uu ,1011 HID BV KIDNAPERS Acid Applied to Breast and Back by Unknown Man and Woman. CHICAGO, Nov. 29. Branded on her breast and back, apparently with acid, and dazed as if from drugs, Mrs Ida Browning, aged 24, of Somonauk, 111., was found semiconscious in the union station here last night. She revived two hours later at a hospital and told of having been kidnapped at a railroad station in South Bend, Ind., and held by a man and a woman who under the pretense of helping her had inticed her into an automobile. The mystery surrounding the woman was intensified when she was undressed undress-ed at the hospital. Pinned under the front of her waist with a crudely made dagger was a note reading: "We mean business. Beware." Concealed Con-cealed in the dress was a note, apparently appar-ently written by Mrs. Browning: "Notify "No-tify my husband, Jim Browning, at Somonauk." On her back the physicians found a small patch of skin reddoned as from an acid with tho letter "R" burned distinctly into tho flesh. On her breast, a crudely drawn butterfly had been burned with the same acid. Mrs. Browning said she had- left the train at South Bond to check her baggage bag-gage into Illinois, when a man and woman informed her she was at tho wrong station and offered to take her to the right place. She said she remembered re-membered nothing after entering tho car until sho woke up confined in a room. The police of South Bend, Somonauk So-monauk and Throe Rivers, Mich., which the police believe Is the town in which sho was held, havo been notified. Several times Mrs. Browning said sho remembered boing given something some-thing to drink, after which her mind would become a blank. She said she was unable to tell how sho escaped from her captors nor how long ago it was, nor how she reached tho station in Chicago. |