The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-25
A FATHERS SHAME.
THE PATHETIo NARRATIvE
By q Broken Hearted Man of his SONS
orimO-A Young Girl Kidnapped to Get
The Ransom which her Father was
Expected to onsr-TOWn Excited.

y The Ransom which her Father was
It Expected to onsr-TOWn Excited.
: NEW YoRk, Feb. PA little sheet con
tanning about as much matter as column
and q half Of the World, and printed OF
one side Of the psper only, was issued yea
Q terday at oscsols Mills, Pa, in place o
the Wage Earnery' Journal, and the reason
: why this newspaper SO suddenly reduced
its size is told by tho editor, R. A. Kinsloe
The matter in the little sheet is con
fined almost entirely to a Gaze Of kidnap
ping in which one Of the principals wa
the editors son. The story is heSded:
''THE cscEoLA KIDNAPPING CASE"
Mr.. Kiuslos, who tells the entire story
in digniHed, yet touching way, not at
tempting in the least to cover up his sons
wrong doing, heads the story by saying:
ut is not an easy matter for the writer
to send the facts herein contained broad.
cast to the public, but justice to all parties
demands that II be done."
Happean from the story thaton Friday
evening last, Gertie, the flteen-year old
daughter Of r. J. Walker, leading aud
prosperous cltizsn Of 0sceols, visited q
young friend in the town, after promising
her mother that she would return home
early.
The girl left her friend st $3.50 in the
evening, and was on her way home.
When near an old deserted building she
was seized, shawl pulled over her
shoulders and head, and she was dragged
into the cellar. Her hands were then
bound and she was told that II she made
any outcry sh6 would be killed. She was
ssked II she know who bad her. Upon
her replying In the negative she was told
that her captor WAs one Will Greenwalt.
Then the clptor, keeping the shawl
tight over her head, led her out aud up
several streets, finally taking her into the
building In which the Wage. .EdrHers'
Journal is printed. Her capGor leaving
her, Gertio made no outCry, but obtaining
. knifo from her pocket by pulling her
dress around, cut the cords that bound
her, for The abductor had tied her ankles
together and lsid her on a pile OF ex.
changes.
After freeing herself, which she accom-.
lpllshed Just as morning dEwned, Gsrtle
escaped from the building and ran home.
She told her story, not emitting to state
that no violence had been done TO her
person, and then abe was proetrHted by
fright and nervousness.
While she had been tied In the Wage
~ fltna kka hol -
turned out to hunt for her. The factories
blew their whistles, the town bells were
rung, and the neighboIs ran hither and
thither looking in all sorts OF places,
expecting to find her dead body.
Her father, happening to look in the
cellar OF the deserted building, found
there his child's hood and partly eaten
stick Of candy. This confirmed the worst
suspicious, and believing thSt tramps hsd
kidnapped the girl, word was cont to sd
joining towns so that the abduCtors might
not escape.
Then Editor KInsloe advanced the the
ory that II was not the work OF tramps
that the deed had been committed by some
ono in town; that the child, either dead
or alive, would be found in town, and sug-
gesting that the Mayor call meeting,
offer o reward, nend word to neighboring
towns, and then make thorough search
Of every building in town.
The plan Was about TO be adopted
when, as before detailed, tho child re.
turned, and from searching for Gertie,
the scene in an instant changed to q wild
chase for the abductor.
| W. A. KinHloe, the eldest son OF the edi-
tor, aged eighteen years, was the guilty
one. He eluded his pursuers until noon,
when he was captured and lodged in jail,
that course being thought advisable on
account oil the excited condition OF the
people. He was unarmsd and did not
even own pistol.
Says his father in the little sheet:
"The excitement Is not to be wondered
at, for the knowledge as to who com.
mitted the act and the return oI
the child followed so quickly that no
limo was given for our people
to grow more calm, even though many
knew Gertie had not bson seriously
harmedi the high state Of feeling being
only natural reoult following the com.
mission Of heinous crime, believed TO
have been committed, We have neither
any right nor any desire to osnsure. Bad
as It Is, we thank God that 1t Ia no worse" +"
Editor Kinsloe went to the jail to see
his boy. The latter said his plan was to
keep the girl until q reward was offered
for her return. Trashy literature,
which he had been In the
habit Of reading with other boys, had in.
famed his mind. BE accused nobody oil
cooperation with him in the abduction,
and Gays he was under the influence oi
liquor at the time. BE says that he never
thought OF doing the girl any violence,
his only purpose being 10 hide her un.
Ill a reward was offered for her return.
How he was TO obtain tho money
without eliminating himself he
seems not to have considered, the
scheme having heen worked out only
90 far as obtaining possession OF the girl
and the securing Of hiding place. Alter
placing her in the building, and still some
what under the effects OF liquor, he, in
order to wear of its effects, ran twice to
the SCHOOL house and back, 10 the deBot
and back, more than q mile, and then
home, where he kept tally for several
games Of dominoes few lady guests
were playing, and then retired.
In concluding the story Of the abduction
the father Gays:
"Actiys in our efforts to obtain a knowl.
edge Of the guilty one, our keen sympathy
and the sympathy Of our family for Mr.. and
Mrs. Walker, the transfer OF trouble from
their shoulders to our own, came like a
thunderbolt from clear sky, and we
have the best reason to know that the
sympathy Of Mr.. and Ma. Walker goes
out to us in as full.measure "a ours went to
them"
Then the editor tells the public that
owing TO the circumstances, the fact
that the boy who. helped him is
gone, and the sicknesa OF another
Of his compoaitors, 1t was impossible for
him to- get out paper this week, and the
little sheet was Issued instead.
Mr.. Kinsloe Is apparently weighed
down by sorrow over the position OF
his boy, and offers his journal
for gale at eacriHce. He says