Connecticut western news., 1893-12-28
LOST HER HUSBAND.
MRS. BYERs SAYS THAT HE WAS KID-
 MAPPED.
She Has . Wealthy Manufacturer Arrested Charged With Abducting Her Million aire Husband-A Queer Tale of Hes Hunt For Byers.

For Byers.
 CHICAGO, Dec 26.-Henry B. Shields of Coleman, Shields & Co.,, iron manufactur- CTS of Niles, O., and manager of the Girard furnace at Girard, O., was arrested here charged with Kidnapping E. M. Byers of Pittsburg, a member of the wealthy iron manufacturing firm of A. M. Byers & Co.,, that city. The warrant was sworn out by Mrs. Byers.
 Shields arrived in the city Saturday morn ing and registered at the Hotel Grace un- der the name of J. s. Perry, Boston, O. The arrest was made so quietly that no one about the hotel knew of it. The prisoner was taken before Justice Murphy and ad mitted to bail in the sum of $10000.
 Mrs. Byers' Side.
 Attorney George s. Baker, who repre- sents Mrs. Byers in Chicago, says:
 May 13 last Henry B. Shields took MT. Byers from the hotel in Pittsburg, where he was then living, and brought him to Chicago. Here he was placed in charge of Dr, w. Lewis Tallman, house physician at the Great Northern hotel. MT. Byers was by various artifices and charges against his wife worked into a state in which he was easily handled. Shortly after his arrival here he was placed under the immediate charge of a woman nurse named Dilts, who received her directions from Dr. Tallman. For more than three months Mrs. Byers made diligent search and inquiry for her husband, and during this period, she says, MT. Byers wrote ire quently to her, but none of these letters reached her, and when he would inquire why he was told that she no longer cared for him.
 After long search Mr. Byers and his ;,,C Cf went immediately there. The next day Dr. Tallman arrived, and together they re- turned to the Great Northern hotel in this city. It was while they were here that Mir. Byers WAS again taken away, this time by Dr. Tallman while Mrs. Byers lay Ill.
 ''Dr. Tallman, wi;h the nurse took his patient to Montreal, where he registered the party as Dr. s. w. Brown, J. l.. Smith and Mrs. Alva Dobson, Chicago Since then Byers has been taken to various parts of the country. He has drawn personally but little money from his firm, yet 1t Is es- timated that since his abduction last May there has been spent from some source for his account sum approximating $15, 900.
 pr. Taliman Denies It.
 At various times" continued MT. Baker, i've have asked to know MT. Byers' whereabouts, but each time we
 
 him under control have refused every prop osition- we have made. We know from statements made by Tallman and others that Byers wants to go to his wife, but is held in duress and detained in the manner related herewith"
 MT. Tallman ridicules the story of the alleged Kidnapping and the allegation that his patient is insane. He says: Mrs Byers has her peculiarities, and 20 years of married life with her, together with busi- ness cares, had brought on nervous pros tration. so when Mrs Byers went down to Atlantic City last May he came out here to recover his health. He was doing finely, and in August went up to St. Paul to the races in charge of trained nurse. Mrs. Byers went up there and created a scene. I went up there and brought the entire party back here. Mir. Byers said he would try and live with his wife. For IA days they lived together. On the four teenth day he told me he could stand 1t no longer; that he was going away where he could have a chance to get we'll. Since | then have seen him but once. His friends know where he is, for he writes to them occasionally"
 Shields left for Pittsburg, but will oe back here on Wednesday, when his case is | called