Cynthia Longo, 22, a White female from an Italian immigrant family, arrived in Hornell, New York, with the kind of quiet anonymity a rooming house can provide—until danger began circling her life in plain sight. In early September 1926, she told authorities she had been attacked in a car along the Howard–Kanona Highway near Hornell, escaping only by leaping out while a hat was pressed over her mouth to smother her cries. It wasn’t the first time she’d said she’d had to jump from a movi
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