Hattiesburg American, December 28, 1923:
EASTABUCHIE GIRL BELIEVED KIDNAPPED; PETAL BOY SOUGHT
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16-Year-Old Ella [Elma] McLemore Disappears From In Front of Methodist Hospital, While Authorities of Four States Search for J.D. Moore, Two Years Her Senior -- Father Swears Out Warrant for Abduction
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RUMOR COUPLE WAS IN BATON ROUGE
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Wanted on a charge of kidnaping a 16-year-old girl on Monday night, the police and county authorities of four states today are searching for J.D. Moore, 18 years old, who resides near Petal, a short distance from Hattiesburg.
Missing from her home at Eastabuchie is Miss [Elma] McLemore, 16 years old, who is believed to be in young Moore's company.
The police and county authorities of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, have been given a description of the youthful pair, and have been asked to apprehend either or both of them. Moore is wanted on the charge of abduction, a warrant having been sworn out for his arrest, and placed in the hands of Sheriff W.M. Edmondson of Forrest county.
The greatest mystery surrounds the disappearance of the pair.
On Sunday night -- the day before Christmas Eve -- young Moore drove to the Methodist Hospital in this city with Mrs. W.S. McLemore, the mother, Miss [Elma] McLemore, and a second sister, to visit a patient there. Miss [Elma] McLemore remained in the motor car with Moore, while the mother and the sister entered the institution.
GIRL FOUND CRYING
The mother remained longer in the institution than the daughter. The younger girl, returning to the car, according to the reports filed with the sheriff's office, found her sister in tears. She refused to answer any question as to the cause, and the male companion was equally as mute.
The sister returned to the Methodist Hospital to make a report to the mother. The pair immediately left for the street where the automobile had been stopped, but both the motor car and the occupants had disappeared.
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