St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-25
WAS HE KIDNAPPED !?
Sensational Arrest Of Henry
B. Shields at Chicago.
GUILTY OLA SERIOUS 0FFENSs
According to Attorney George
S. Baker, Of Chicago.
Did He SPIRIT AWAY MR.. BYERS
So That His Wife Could Not
Reach Him?
TWO SHES tn a PRETTY .ST0RY
GUILTY 0FA SERIOUS 0FFENSk
Did He SPIRIT AWAY MR.. BXERS
TWO SIDES TO A PRETTY STORY.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Henry B. Shields,
of Coleman. Shields & Co., iron manu-
facturers, of Niles, o.. and manager of
the Girard furnace at Girard. o., was
arrested last evening charged with kid
naping Z. M. Byers, of Pittsburg, Pa,
a member of the wealthy iron manu-
featuring firm of A. M. Byers & Co., Of
that city. The warrant was sworn out
by Mrs. Byers Shields arrived in the
city yesterday morning and regl stored
at the Hotel Grace under the name of j.
B. Perry, Boston, o. The arrest was
made so quietly that no one about the
hotel knew of 1t. The prisoner was
taken before Justice Murphy and ad-
mitted to bail in the sum of $4,000. At
torney George S. Baker, who represents
Mrs. Byers in Chicago. says;
May 13 last Henry B. Shields took
Mr.. 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.
Mr.. Byers was by various articles and
charges against his wife worked into
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 hus-
band, and during this period, she says,
MIR. Byers wrote frequently to her. but
none OF these letters ever reached her,
and. when he would inquire why, he
was told that she no longer cared for
him. After long search E. NJ. Byers
and his nurse were found III st. Paul.
Mrs. Byers went Immediately there and
found him. The next day Dr. TalIman
arrived, and together they returned to
the Great Northern hotel in this city. 1t
was while here that Mr.. Byers was
AGAIN TAKEN AWAY.
this time by DR.. Tallman. while Mrs,
Byers lay ill. DIR. Tallman, with the
nurse, took his patient to Montreal,
where he registered the party as DR.. E.
M. Brown, j. L. Smith and Mrs. Alva
Dobson, chicago Since then BY ers
has been taken to various parts of the
country. He has drawn personally but
little money from his firm, yet it is es-
tImated that since his abduction last
May there has been spent from some
source for his account a sum approx
imating $4,000.
"At various times" continued Mr..
Baker, 1--WE have asked to know Mr..
Byers' whereabouts, but each time were
put off. The people who have had 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.
THE STORY RIDICULED.
DR.. Tallman ridicules the story of the
alleged kidnapping, and the allegation
that his patient is insane. He says:
Mrs. ByerS has her peculiarities, and
twenty years of married life with her,
together with business cares, had
brought to him nervous prostraIion. so
when Mrs. Byers went down to Atlantic
City last May, he came out here to re-
cover his health. He was doing finely,
and in August went up to st. Paul in
charge of trained nurse. Mrs. Byers
went up there and created a scene. I
went up there aud brought the entire
party back here. Mr.. Byers said he
would try to live with his wife. For
fourteen days they lived together. On
the fourteenth day-he told me he could
stand il no longer; that he was going
away where he could have chance to
get we'll. Since then L have seen him
but once. His friends know where he
is, for he writes to them occasionally"
Shields left for Pittsburg today, but
will be back here on Wednesday when
his case is called.