Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-25
HE PRINTS THE NEWS.
A sPARTAN-LlKe EDITOR PUBLISHES
his SONS DISGRACE.


Young Man Plans an Abduction for Dol
lars and Cents which Ends In Failure.
the JAN, and His Fathers Shame,
New YoRE, Feb. 25-A little sheet con-
tanning n bout as much matter as a column
and a half of an ordinary paper and printed
on one side only was issued Thursday at Os-
| ceola Mills, Pa, in place in The Wage Earn
ers' Journal and the reason why this ne VS.
paper 50 suddenly reduced its sizs is told by
the editor, II. A. Ktusloe The matter in
tbs little sheet is confined almost entirely to
a case Of kidnapping, in which one of the
| principals was the editors son. The story is
| headed: THE Osceola KIDNAPPING Case"
| DR. klnslte, who tells the entire story in a
| dignitisd yet touching way, not attempting
in the least To cover up his his sons wrong
doing, begins tue story by saying: at is
not an easy matter for the writer to send the
! facts herein contained broadcast to the pub
lic but justice to all parties demands that it
be done
| 1t appears from the story that on Friday
evening, Feb. II, Gertie. the I5-year- old
daughter of r. j. Walker, a leading and
prosperous citiz1n of Osceola, visited a young
friend in the town, after promising her
mother that she would return home early
The girl left her friend at $50 in tho even
ing, 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 if she made an cutlery she would DO
killed She was asked if she knew who had
her. Upon her replying in the negative, she
was told that her captor was one Will Green
walt Then her captOr, keeping the shawl
| tight over her head, led her out
"a md cfR llNr taIrf
her into the building in which The Wages
earners' Journal is printed. Her captor leav-
ing her, Gertie made no cutlery but obtained
knife from her pocket by pulling her dress
around, cut the cords that bound her, fer the
abductor had tied her ankles together and
laid her on pile of exchanges. After Free
ing heI self, which she accomplished just as
morning dawned, Gertie 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 she was
Frustrated by fright and nervousness.
While she had been tied in The Wage
Farmers Journal office the whole town had
turned out to hunt for her. The factories
blew their whistles, the town bells were rung,
and the neighbors ran hther and thther,
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 partially
eaten stick of candy. This confirmed the
worst suspicious, and believing that tramps
had kidnapped the girl, word was sent to
adjoining towns, so that the abductors might
not escape
Then Elitor Kinsloe advanced the theory
that it was not the work of tranps; that the
deed had been committed by some one in
town; that the child, either dead or alive,
would be found in town, and suggested that
the mayor call meeting, offer a reward
send word to neighboring towns and then
make a thorough search of every building in
town. This plan was about to be adopted,
when, as before detailed, the child returned,
and from searching for Gerte the scene in
an instant changed to wild chase for the
abductor.
". A. Kinsloe, the eldest sou of the editor,
aged IS years, was the guilty one He
eluded his pursuers until noon, when he was
captured and LODGED in Jail, that course be-
ing thought advisable on account of the ex-
cited condition of the people. He was I'M
armed, 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 committed the act and
the return of the child followed quickly that
no time was given for our people TO grow more
calm, even though many knew Gertie had not
been seriously harmed. The high state of feeling
sion of a heinous crime believed to have been
committed, we have neither any right nor any
desire to cenSure. Bad as it is, thank God it is
no worse.
Editor Kinslo0 went to the Jail to SEQ his
boy. The latter said his plan was to keep
the girl until reward was offered for her
return. Trashy literature, which he had |
been in the habit of reading with other boys,
had in6ared his mind. He accused nobody |
of corporation with him in the abduction, |
and says he was under the influence of liquor
at the time. He asserts that he never thought |
of doing the girl any violence, his only pur- |
pose being to hide her until a reward was Of |
fered for her return. How he was to obtain |
the money without eliminating himself he |
seems not to have considered, the scheme |
having been worked out only so far as OBJ |
tang possession of the girl and the securing |
of hiding place. After placing her in the |
building, aud still somewhat under the eff |
fects of liquor, he, in order to wear off its |
effects, ran twice to the school house and |
back, to the station and back-more than q
mile--theu home, where he kept tally for
several games OF dominoes a few lady guests
were playing, and then retired.
In concluding the story Of the abduction
the father says:
Active in our efforts to obtain knowledge of
the guilty one, Keen sympath2 and the SYM
pathy of our family for Mr.. and Mrs Walker, the
transfer of trouble from their shoulders to
own came like Il thunderbolt from u Gear sky,
and have the best reason to know that the
sympathy of Mr.. and Mrs. walker goes out to US
in as full measure as ours went out 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 sickness of
another of his compoSitors, it was impossible
for him to get out paper this week aud the
little sheet was issued instead
Mr. 10 haj
by sorrow over the position of his boy, and
offers his Journal for sale at great sacrifice.
He says at the foot of the little paper that
his journal has good patronage and better
prospects, and that the public will find his
reasons for selling out in the story lie has
written about his way ward SON.