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SEARCH FOR KIDNAPPERS WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 2. Mary Brown, 18-year-old parochial school student who was kidnapped near her suburban Oxon Hill, Md., home two days ago and returned safely to the vicinity last night, revealed today that she was seized for ransom by three abductors. Miss Brown said she argued her way to freedom by convincing the kidnapers that her father, Wiljiam Brown, an employe of the United States Bureau of Printing and Engraving, had no money to pay ransom. Her nerves quieted after a nights sleep, the girl unfolded a story of cruelty and despair to Maryland state police and a corps of detectives, who immediately launched a search for a shack not far from Oxon Hill, where she was held captive for. almost thirty hours. Meanwhile a hunt for the kidnappers was begun in the capital when an abandoned truck answering the description of the one used by the girls abductors when they seized her was found. The truck was towed to police headquarters here, where an examination for fingerprints was made. It was learned that police are certain that the truck belonged to the kidnappers.
