Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1932, Page 26

B—10 % THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WOMAN VANISHES FROM ANNAPOLS Mother of Two Believed Kid- | naped—Received Threats for Five Years. Special Dispatch to ine Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 9 Be- lieved by her husband and police to have been kidnaped after receiving more than 20 threatening letters during the last 5 years, Mrs. Esther G. Sands, 25, mother of two young children, mysteriously disappeared from her home at 311 West street here last night. Police who invest'gated a report made by her husband, Charles H. Sands, jr., & motion picture machine operator, found furniture disarranged in the home, lamps, overturned. a pistol lying on the floor and a bul flooring, indicating a i hole in the The reported kidnaping is the second | Homewood. Their two children, Charles in th: Sands family. Margaret Sands‘!H. 3d, age 4, and Rae Alein, 2, have sister of Mr. Sands, was kidnaped in | been living with Mrs. Sands’ parents, 1924 by Margaret Lopez, maid of an|Mr. and Mrs. Robert Griffith of Har-| Annapolis naval officer, in a case which [mans, Anne Arundel County. The received wide publicity. She was 11 home of the couple at 311 West street, | vears old at that time. Miss Sanis, | containing their furniture, had been who is now Mrs. Joseph Beale of Igle- | shut up. hart, was found in New York by ponce‘ Last night about 7:15 o'clock Mr. | there and the Lopez woman was com- | Sands asked his wife to go to the West | mitted to an institution. lstrect hous: and obtain for him a book on airplane mechanics. She a re- e | Volver with her on his advice, Sands Since shortly after their marriage in/| told police. | July, 1926, letters threatening MTIS.| When she did not return promptly, Sands have been received, Mr. Sands| Mr. Sands went to the West street told police. The first of the more than | house and found her pistol on the 20 letters, all printed in block letters, | fioor, one shell exploded, a bullet hole | Teceived early in 1927, read: “You are|in the floor and the room showing evi- in danger; beware, I sent one simper | dences of a struggle, he told police. to_some one else.” | Mrs. Griffith, mother of Mrs. Sands, | flower, 8:30 p.m. |~ Four letters were received during the | said her daughter had been subject to | last week, the last one arriving Friday. | serious illness for several years. She | according to Mr. Sands. This letter,| had an attack recently, Mrs. Griffith printed on the back of a letter bearing | stated. Mr. Sands, however, insisted |a Baltimore address, read: “Esther,|she had been kidnaped. this is your last chance. We los! ern)fz« = . e of you once, but will not again.” e tfer was signed “XX463X021.” | MINSTREL CAST FETED r. Sands has given police here the | L LA name of a man he suspects. He says | he has warned this man for the past| Sponsors and participants of the re- four years to stop bothering his wife. | cent dramatic and minstrel show given Sands also furnished police with de-|py the Holy Trinity Church were feted seript of three automobiles bearing = e " District of Columbia lcense tags re-|at 8 banquet in the church auditortum | ported seen near the home Saturday. | last night. John T. Jenkins was chair- 2 | man of the Arrangements Committee Sent to Home for Book. | and John C. Gartland, president of the Mrs., Sands and her husband have | Holy Name Sociely, tcastmaster. En- becn living with his pareats, | tertainment and specches rounded out at ! the | Mayflower, 8 p.m. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dance and card party, Ruth Chapter, No. 1, O. E. S, Shoreham Hotel, 8 p.m. Card party, Columbia Review, No. 3,' | vashington Loan & Trust Building, 8 pm. Meeting, Takoma Park Citizens’ As- sociation, Takoma Branch Library, 8 pm. Dance, Boveguo_ "Club, Almas ‘Temple, Thirteenth and K streets, 9 p.m. Meeting, James Reese Europe Post, No. 5, American Legion, Y. M. C. A, 8 pm. Meeting, Washington Branch, Society of American Bacteriologists, Army Med- ical School, Georgia avenue and But- ternut street, 8 p.m. Meeting, Chi Omega Sorority, May- Meeting, Sigma Epsilon Supper, benefit St. Stephen’s School Si. Stephen's Auditorium, Twenty- fourth and K streets, 4 to 9 p.m. Dinner, St. Luke's Parish Hall, Fif-| teenth and Church strets, 4:30 to 8 p.m. Meeting, Keramos and Beta Pi Kappa, Willard Holel, 4 pm. National Conference of 1 W 8:30 pm. Sorority, Jews and | D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1932. Card party, Waneta Council, Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth strect, 8:30 p.m. Meeting snd dance, Southern So- | clety, Willard, 8 p.m. Card party, Duplicate Contract Bridge Club, Cariton Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Kit Carson Woman's Reliel Card party, benefit Washington un- employed, United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners of America, Local No. 132, 1003 K street, 8:15 p.m. Card party, Mothers’ Club, St. James' Catholic Church, Thirty-seventh street |and Rhode Island avenue, Mount | Rainter, 8 pm. Meeting, Glover Park Citizens' Asso- ciation, Home Industrial School, Wis- consin’ avenue and Thirty-seventh street, 8 p.m. Dlnner-meeung,_‘tk::rnadlan Club, Lee House, 6:45 p.m. Dinner-meeting, Clemson ennedy-Warren, 6:30 p.m. Current events lecture, Women's City | Club, 736 Jackson place, 4:45 pm. George A. Benson, speaker. Meeting, Round Table, Jewish Com- munity Center, 8:45 pm. Herman Felter, speaker, FUTURE. Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard Ho- el.” tomorrow, 12:30 p.n. Corps, 224 Ninth street northeast, 8 p.m. | Luncheon, D. C. Bankers’ Assoclation, Willard, tomorrow, 12:45 p.m. Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayfiower, to- morrow, 12:30 p.m. \ Meeting, Mira McCoy Andrews Day Nursery, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, [10:30 a.m. Luncheon, University of Kentucky, University Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. | _Luncheon, University of Missouri, | University Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. | Dinner, Kappa Alpha Fraternity, University Club, tomorrow, 7 p.m. Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p. —_—————— | TRAFFIC LIGHTS URGED Proposed at Second and Third Streets and Massachusetts Avenue, ‘The necessity for traffic control lights_at the intersections of Second and Third streets with Massachusetts aveaue northeast, will be urged upon |the District Commissioners by the Stanton Park Citizens' Association, ac- Alumni, | cording to action taken by that body | at a neeting last night. |~ The association voted to ask the local | government for a traffic count at these points, with the suggestion that men at present unemployed be used in mnkln1 the survey. 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