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Susan Mann - Purse theft may be linked to Hollis girl
On May 15, Susan Mann, a 15-year-old student at Benjamin Cardozo High School, borrowed her older sister's pocketbook and took it to school. The purse contained some of her sister's important papers, including her driver's license. But Susie, as her family calls her, often shared clothing and other things with her two sisters. During the day, she got into some trouble with a group of girls and the pocketbook was stolen. The incident left Susie, a usually vibrant and cheerful youngster, depressed, according to her mother.
Two days later, still feeling blue, Susie borrowed a neighbor's bicycle for a ride around her Hollis neighborhood. At 10 a.m., she pedaled away from her house at x xx St. and has not been seen since. It has been learned that earlier in the da,y she called 10 of her friends asking them to help her get the pocketbook back.
All refused, and she never went to the home of the girl who had admitted stealing it. Seek neighborhood man She was also seen that morning in the company of a neighborhood man known as "Messiah," whom police are looking for to question in the case. Susie is 5-feet-1 and weighs about 115 pounds. She has brown hair, which she was wearing in a long ponytail the day she vanished. When last seen, she was wearing blue jeans and a brown sweater.
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Police, fellow church members, and school administrators have pooled forces to locate a 15-year-old Hollis girl who was last seen on Saturday afternoon after she left home to try to recover her sister's stolen pocketbook.
Missing Persons Squad Detective Mary Kelly said that all hospitals are being checked for the whereabouts of Susan Mann of xxxx St, Hollis. "We are concerned about Suzy because she is not the type of person to run away," said the Rev. Irvine A. Bryer, pastor of the Hollis Ave. Congregational Church, where Susan is a regular member.
Susan was last seen getting into a silver-colored, red-topped Cadillac Seville at 211th St. and Hollis Ave. Saturday afternoon with a man in his early 20s, police say.
Susan, described as being "very mature," is about 5-feet-1, 120 pounds and was last seen wearing her Sears to shut Heights store hair in pigtails. She was wearing blue jeans, sandals and a brown sweater. Susan's mother, B Mann said that Susan became very upset last Thursday when classmates at Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside teased her about who had taken a pocketbook she had borrowed from her 22-year-old sister, D. The pocketbook contained D's driver's license, I.D. card and Susan's working papers.
She had planned to go for an interview for a summer job at a nearby church. "She had finished doing her chores around the house, vacuuming and dusting, when she went out to try to get the pocketbook back from some girls she thought had taken it," said Mrs. Mann. "She borrowed a bike from a neighborhood girl and we haven't heard from her since." Teachers at Cardozo High called the parents yesterday, concerned about the freshman they considered a "good student."
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