Kinston, Feb. 8—Kidnapped by “white slavers” was the fate of pretty and vivacious Ruby Johnston, 15-year-old Winston-Salem school girl visiting in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to a story published yesterday in the New York Mirror. When police began to investigate her disappearance, fear caused her captors to release her, it was stated. Now the police of America’s greatest city are striving to detect her abductors. Her spunk is said to have contributed materially to her release.
When informed last night that is daughter had actually been kidnapped by New York’s sinister underworld, her father, M.L. Johnson of 579 Highland Avenue, local coal dealer, was greatly agitated. It was several seconds before he could adjust his glasses to read the item. In a few moments, however, he was calmer.
Mr. Johnson has heard nothing from his daughter since the telegram came Saturday morning announcing that she had been found and was safe at home with her sister.
He was very glad she had escaped, and seemed buoyed up by the hope that nothing more serious had befallen her. He has written her to return home at once.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Feb.9, 1926. Kidnapped girl’s last name was spelled “Johnston” in article; her father’s last name was spelled “Johnson.”
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