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Show BEATEN BY JEN Young Woman Missionary Mission-ary Has a Harrowing Experience (New York, May 19. Miss Emma Trotter, a missionary for the Florence Flor-ence Crlttenton Circie at Ashbury Park, related today her remarkable experiences as a prisoner of three men-who, after having captured her, had brutally beaten and drugged Ifer, holding her for three days. Following hef escape last night from the shack of her captors, Miss Trotter made her way to the Florence Flor-ence Crlttenton mission at Ashbury Park and was then so weak that sho was sent to a hospital. A telephone message requested Miss Trotter to call at a certain house in a good district of Ashbury Park early Saturday night in connection with her work as a missionary. Ab the door was opened she was grabbed by three men who dragged her into the house. There she says the men demanded knowledge of the whereabouts, of Charlotte Graves, a girl who had been taken from them a Cveek before by the Florence Critfenton Circle and sent to a home. When she refused the information they demanded, s'nc said, one of them threw- his arm around her neck and opened her mouth, while another poured a -drug down her throat. It was not until Monday night that she recovered consciousness, Miss Trotter reported, and then she found herself alone In the shack on the outskirts out-skirts of the city with one of her captors. cap-tors. She prayed with this man and caused him so to repent that he permitted per-mitted her to etcape last night. The police, after a visit to the location loca-tion described by Miss Trotter, said there was no doubt that Miss Trotter was telling the truth. |