A Cry in the Night

12:10 a.m. When he pulled the girl out of the darkened car his intentions were simple and terrible

2:30 a.m. The tough police lieutenant found that the stolen girl was his daughter

3:57 a.m. A Shore Patrolman spotted the girl’s purse in a trash can outside the window of a Skid Row hotel

4:20 a.m.There was nothing in the bare hotel room but a torn up bed, a shattered window, a packet of needles, an icepick, and a pair of pliers

It was 5.20 a.m. before the police picked up the trail again