Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-26
QUEER KIDNAPPING CASE
Mrs. Byers Chased Her Husband
 For Months.
SHE SAYS HE HAS BEEN ABDUCTED.

He Is Wealthy Iron AHanufacturer of
 Pittsburg, and His Alleged KIdaaper Is
 awsalthy Business AIan-There Are Two
 Sides to the Story.
 CHICAGO, Dec s5.-Henry B. Shields of Coleman, Shields & Co, iron manufactur- 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. NJ. 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. $. Perry, Boston, O. The arrest was made so quietly that no one about the hotel knew of it. Tho prisoner was taken before Justice Murphy and ad- mitted to bail in the sum of S10,o00.
 Mrs. Byers' Side.
 Attorney George s. Baker, who repre- sents Mrs Byers in Chicago, says:
 May IS last Henry B. Shields took Mir. 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 Mir. 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, Mir. Byers wrote ire quently to her, but none of these letters reached her, and when he would inquire l &l,ok IL, L. for him.
 After a long search Mr. Byers and his nurse were found in St Paul. Mrs Byers 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 i'll.
 "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 it is es- timated that since his abduction last May there has been spent from some source for his account sum approximating SIS, 900.
 Dr. TallInan Denies It.
 At various times" continued Mir. DaheTs we nave aSke0 to knO Ow MT. Byers' whereabouts, but each time we 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
 Mir. 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- bess cares, had brought on nervous pros tratioH. 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 a trained nurse.
 Mrs. Byers went up there and created a scene. l went up there and brought the entire party back here. MT. Byers said he would try and live with his wife. For l& days they lived together. On the four teenth day he told me he could stand it no longer; that he was going away where he could have a chance to get well. 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 be back here on Wednesday, when his case is cnllei