The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-08-03
A REMARKABLE STORY.
Sequel TO a Celebrated Buffalo Kid
naping Case,
ONE OF THE KIDNAPBRs CAUGHT,

o. o. Cottle, Who Was Captured and Inn
prisoned in an Empty House, Charged
with Accepting Money from One of His
Abductors to Obtain Pardon.
BUFFALO, Aug. 3.-Georgc Allen, one Of
the men who kidnapped Lawyer o. o.
Cottle for ransom here some time ago,
was arrested ut the Mansion House yes
terday He retained Hugh Pentecost, the
one time preacher, for his attorney and
Pentecost tells u remarkable story. The
orime that was committed by Allen, and
one Emery, was one of the most daring
ever perpetrated here. Lawyer Cottle was
inveigled into taking n buggy ride to look
at some property, and when ushered into
vacant house was overpowered and
thrust into a cell hanGcuffed and chained
by his ankles to post, gagged, and then
under threats of death compelled to write
a note to his wife asking for $4,000 imme.
diately. When this note was delivered
Cottle's son, suspecting that his father
was in durance, attempted by personal
interviews with Emery to temporize, but
of no avail. 1t is generally believed that
the money was paid
The elder Cottle was then liberated
from his dungeon, while his captors made
their escape into Canada 1t was first
learned that Emery was an alias assumed
by Claude Strong, of this city, who had,
under the name of Emery, become fugi-
tive from Cincinnati justice and resident
of Toronto, Canada. He had employed
| Cottle as attorney to obtain pardon to
| permit his return to the states, and
claimed to have paid him something like
] a. A -. Inr, or a
failing in this endeavor, however, Strong,
alias Emery, had sought restitution and
finally devised upon kidnapping and ran
som to effect it. Allen admits his identity
now, although he says his real name is
John Mcdonald, and his place of nativity
Louisville Ky. He also confesses to the
kidnapping.
Hugh Pentecost was interviewed last
evening. He asserts that Cottle swindled
Emery out of $1,000, and that Carlton
Strong, prominent architect and a
brother of Emery's, had also swindled
Emery. The New York lawyer claimed to
have documentary evidence in proof of all
this, and showed the reporter two receipts
signed by o. o. Cottle, one for $1,000 and
the other for 81, 900. Both receipts also
contained the statement that the money
was to be returned to John G. Emery in
case Emery was not pardoned or his SEN
tence commuted. Two hundred dollars OF
this amount, it was stipulated, was kept
by Cottle, to be paid to William O.. Oates,
a representative in congress, now COVER
nor of Alabama, who, it was claimed by
Cottle, was to aid in securing Emery {
pardon.
Both Cottle and Carlton Strong, said
Pentecost, had told Emery they paid large
sums of money in Washington in theiI
efforts to secure his pardon. These men,
Pentecost said, ne had visited and found
that they had not received a cent. Being
unable to get any satisfaction from his
lawyers or his brother through entreaty
Emery conceived the idea of forcing the
matter to public attention in the unique
manner afterwards carried out. Mere
writing to the newspapers, added Mr.
Pentecost, would have been useless, a.
none would have believed him in opposi
tion to two men considered so respectable
in every way as o. o. Cottle and Carlton
Strong.
Allen has been connected with EmerI
more or less intimately for many years
Both he and his counsel say that he cam
to Buffalo with the express purpose 0
forcing Cottle and Carlton Strong tt
either hand over the money or take tn,
step which they have taken in causing hi
| arrest