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Show Ciid ECidiaped Two Years Ago k ?omi Alive Anaziag Story Tc'd c? How Girl Was Beircg Trained Fcr Skating fid. CHICAGO. A 5-year-old girl, kidnaped two years ago, was found alive and well in New Orleans with her abductors and returned to her Chicago home. The child was being trained to become a member of a fancy roller skating act with those who abducted her. The girl is Mary Ann Kubon, who was only three when taken from a boarding house in June, 1945. She had been placed there by her 'mother, Myrtle. According to the New Orleans office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, In-vestigation, the child was found in company of William Graham Ful- j ler, 44, a former convict, his wife, ' Marie; a foster daughter, Mrs. Selma Taylor, and her husband, Rima. Abductors Caught. The five, according to the FBI, were seized as they attempted to hitchhike a ride on a highway eight miles outside New Orleans. Fuller and the other adults were turned over to Sheriff John J. Grosch of Orleans parish and Mary Ann was placed in St. Vincent de Paul orphanage. Mary Ann is the daughter of Walter Kubon and his wife, Myrtle. In 1945 the parents separated, and Mrs. Kubon came with the child to Chicago from her home in Harvey. She made the acquaintance of Fuller, Ful-ler, who was a professional roller skater, giving exhibitions at various rinks. On June 17, 1945, a man representing repre-senting himself as Walter Kubon took the child from the boarding house. The man actually was Fuller, police suspected. Knowing the man was . a skater, Walter Storms, chief of detectives, had circulars cir-culars printed, directing the search toward roller rinks throughout the nation. Subsequently the FBI entered en-tered the search. Traced by Skates Order. Fuller was traced after he had placed an order with a New York firm for a special pair of skates, designed de-signed for a 5-year-old girl. Fuller, his wife, and the other couple are roller skaters and were training Mary Ann as a feature of their act, according to the report from New Orleans. Mrs. Kubon, whose husband is a steelworker, has returned to her previous home at Harvey.. The mother wept with happiness at the return of her daughter. She said she had prayed every night for her safe return. She and her husband hus-band have three other children, all boys. In New Orleans Fuller was charged by the FBI with unlawfully fleeing Illinois to avoid prosecution for kidnaping. |