GIRL IS TERRORIZED ON HIGHWAY, POLICE HUNT STOLEN CAR DRIVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400280037-4
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: August 10, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST AUG 1 0 9 TINTL
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'Girl Is Terrorized on Highway,
Police Hunt Stolen Car Driver
By Jeff O'Neill
Staff Reporter
Virginia State Police are
searching for a man who ter-
rorized a 19-year-old Washing-
ton girl on Route 1 south of
Fredericksburg late Friday
night.
Investigators said the man
'tried to pass himself off as
a Washington policeman,
threatened to shoot a motor-
ist who stopped, and fled in a
car reported stolen in Wash-
ington.
The girl was identified as
Irene Elizabeth Semiklose, a
Central Intelligence Agency
employe who lives, at 1610
Longfellow at. nw. She was
driving to the Richmond area
to visit her parents.
She was crowded off the
.road after fleeing the man for
at least five miles at speeds up
to 80 miles an hour. At one
point she managed to force her
,pursuer into the oncoming
I traffic lane but could not elude
him.
Part of the time he flashed
his headlights while riding
bumper-to-bumper behind her,
she said, but "it takes more to
!unnerve me than that."
"I'm a D. C. policeman and
I'm going to arrest you for
speeding," she quoted him as
saying when he finally forced
her off the road.
.A tow truck driver, Andy
Clay, 31, of Fredericksburg,
said he and his brother were
driving south when they saw
a man standing beside a car
with a woman screaming hys-
terically inside.
Clay said he and his brother,
Curtis, 35, pushed the man
away from the side of the
girl's car and held him.
The man told them he was 1
a policeman. As he went?
through his wallet in an ap- '
parent search for identifica-1,
tion, the frightened girl drove:
away and Andy Clay followed:
in his tow truck.
The man broke from Curtis
Clay's grasp and forced his
way back into his own can!
When lie reached into a glove
compartment for what Curtis
believed was a gun, Curtis
ducked behind the car and the
man fled.
Andy Clay said the man
tnld his brother earlier that
he had a gun and threatened'
to shoot him.
The FBI said the Clays de-
scribed the car Involved as a
black 1957 Plymouth with Dis-
trict tags PR 461. Metropol-
itan police said that James E.
1-tankins, listed at 2370 Chain-
plain st. nw., reported that car
missing from the rear of his
home at 11 p. m. Friday.
Andy Clay later related that
the fugitive must have turned
off on Route 606, possibly
toward Louisa, because he did
not pass Andy, who was fol-
lowing Miss Semiklose south
on Route 1.
Andy caught up with Miss
Semiklose, who returned with
him to the scene, where Cur-
tis was waiting. They then
notified the police.
The FBI said it was investi-
gating the incident as a case
of interstate transportation of
a stolen auto. An FBI spokes-
man said there seemed to be
no likely conliection between
.the incident aJtd the Jan. 11
kidnaping of, ` fhe Carroll V.
Jackson faiully about 25 miles
away and their subsequent
slaying.
Clay described tte fugitive
as about 35, 5 feet 9, 180
pounds, with black curly hair
hanging over his forehead,
blue eyes, wearing dark trous-
ers Rnd a white shirt.
Police said Miss Semiklose
was driving _.to the Richmond
area to vi4ft-her parents.
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