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Casper Daily Tribune
Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming
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Sister Cecilia, a nun in Frederick, Md., was kidnapped, drugged, and held in Baltimore before escaping and returning dazed. Police hunt the man and woman responsible; taxi driver Stewart Cathcart is held for questioning. (187 chars)
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Taxi Driver of Baltimore Is Held for Investigation but Responsibility for Attack Remains Unsolved
FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 13.- (By The Associated Press.) -Policemen in this city and Baltimore were searching today for a man and woman who are believed to have kidnaped Sister Cecilia, a music teacher at the Notre Dame academy, here yesterday afternoon and to have taken her to Baltimore where she escaped from a house there, after being held captive for several hours, and returned to the institution in a dazed condition.
According to Sister Cecilia's story as recited to Father William J. Kane, overseer of the Notre Dame convent, Stewart Cathcart, a taxi driver of Baltimore, who brought Sister Cecilia to Frederick in his machine last night was locked up in jail at the request of Father Kane. While not suffering from fright as a result of believing Cathcart to be implicated in her adventure.
Verona, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh.
BALTIMORE, MD., Feb. 13.-
Robert L. Osborne, the policeman whom Sister Cecilia of Frederick queried as to train or taxi service to that place, said today he did not notice anything strange when the nun approached him.
Osborne said Sister Cecilia told him of a "sick friend" in Frederick who needed her, and asked him if he couldn't find some means of getting her there.
The patrolman said he asked several taxi-cab drivers to accept her as a passenger but when told that she did not have the required amount of money they refused. Finally, he said, Stewart Cathcart, who is being held by the Frederick authorities for questioning, consented to drive her to that place.
Believing Cathcart to be implicated in her adventure.
Sister Cecilia told Cathcart, Osborne the kidnaping the priest stated that Sister Cecilia, whose age on the convent records is given as 41 years, was formerly Miss Marie Whalen of Verona, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Sister Cecilia told Cathcart to drive carefully and to pick out the smoother roads, as she did not feel any too well.
Cathcart gave evasive answers to many of his questions.
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Frederick, Md.; Baltimore, Md.
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Feb. 12
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Sister Cecilia, a music teacher at Notre Dame academy in Frederick, Md., was kidnapped by a man and woman, drugged, taken to Baltimore, held captive for several hours, escaped, and returned to the academy in a dazed condition. Baltimore taxi driver Stewart Cathcart, who drove her back to Frederick, was jailed for investigation at the request of Father Kane, though her belief in his involvement caused her no fright. Officer Robert L. Osborne in Baltimore helped arrange the taxi after she claimed a sick friend needed her in Frederick. She was formerly Miss Marie Whalen of Verona, Pa., aged 41.