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SATURDAY, JANUARY I, ltMKIDNAP YARN 'PROVES HOAX I Story of Abduction. Told by j Mrs. Starhuck. Found ,! False.■ i1■Louisville. Ky, Jan. 4.—CAP)—:Mrs.* Ruth Starbuck. C3. bride of six: -{months, vas teleased by special- I agents of the department of justice- yesterday after they had checked,3, they said, on ter admission that her 1 * story* of being kidnaped from near- i her home at CcderaiG, O.. was a hoax.She immediately joined her bus-*iband, Clinton Starbuck. at Louisville detective headquarters. Officers there- said they could not be interviewed “just now.- O. C. Dewey, chief of the bureau ^ of investigation held oSce here, saidhis agents had checked every- detail of what he said was Mrs. Starbuck*s- admission to federal men that her J story of being abducted, drugged with ^ a candy bar and ejected from an au-* tomobile in Louisville was fiction.n j Remarking that while he deplores kidnaping hoaxer, Dewey said th* ■* * woman was being released by federal * on recommendation cf Districtj, Attorney Bunk Gardner.” l Dewey said he considered kicnapiny ‘ hoaxes far from harmless, re mar k-; ing they caused the government con-~ sidcraole expense ?nd the risk of be-‘riing engaged in running down hoaxes i v. hen they ought to le on an actual j case. He cited the Caleb Milne kid-* naping as an instance, remarking* there was no way to distinguish a1 , hoax from » bona fide kidnaping, ex-i.reic!cept oy hours and sometimes days of exhaustive investigation.Dewey said Mrs. Starbuck toid fed-J era! men she was unhappy and left * home Dec. 31, going by bus to YThee!-LZ mg. Vf. Va., where she attended aJjmovie: thence to Parkersburg and “J Huntington, TV Va., and Lexington,* Ky. He said agents verified that shy _'! arrived here Jan. 1 and stopped at ~ \ a hotel.
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Newark Advocate
Newark, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 04, 1936
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