The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-03
YOUNG GIRL STOLEN
With Her Went a Team of Her
Fathers.
BEEN ABSENT TWO WEEKS
DECoYED UNDER PROMISE OF
BEING SENT To SCHOOL.
a Man VINO Said His Name Was Ty-
Ter bingham and Lived in VIII
sons Lane Proves to Be an Inn
poster-The Little One Now ut
Ross Fork, Idaho, Being Taken
There BY Squaws.
fsnecial 10 Ma HeraldN

Ogden, Utah, Dec. 2.-Ten-year-old
Mabel Herrick left her home in Ogden
canyon to go to Wilson's lane and en-
ter school for the winter. Two weeks
later she turned up at Bannock Greek,
Ida, and was brought into Ross Fork
by two Indian squaws.
Such are two incidents in story
which came to light here today, and
which reads like dime novel, but
which is true in every particular.
CAME FROM IOWA.
Mr. Herrick, father of the girl, lives
in Ogden canyon and works for Con-
tractor Harkins. He and his family
came overland by wagon from Iowa,
reaching here last summer. He had
two teams, which he worked at inter-
walls on the Power company's work.
He and his wife had two children-a
girl and a boy On. Nov. Ii a young,
man, who said his name was Tyler
Bingham, went to the canyon and rep
resented that he lived in Wilson's lane,
and solicited horses to pasture for the
winter. Mr. Herrick let him take one
of his teams. The young man seemed
to take a fancy TO the little girl and
finally told the parents that if they
would let him he would take the little
one to his mother in Wilson's lane and
send her to school for the winter.
ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITION.
The inducement was a very attract
i've one to the needy Herricks, who
realized that the canyon surroundings
were not such as the girl should have
They made inquiries and learned that
Tyler Bingham was an estimable young
man, who lived with his mother in
Wilson's lane They let the young girl
go and settled down to work again.
Today a letter came to Mr.. Eldredge
from Ross Fork, Ida, written appar-
emily by w B. Eldredge. a licensed
Indian trader at that place. The letter
said a little girl who claimed that her
name was Mabel Britton had been
brought to him by Indians from off the
interior of the reservation. The girl
asked them to write to Mr.. Herrick,
who she said would send for her.
LEFT WITH INDIANS.
She claimed to have been left with
the Indians by her brother Mr.. Her
rick went at once to Wilson's lane,
where he saw Tyler Bingham, and
was dumbfounded to find that Bingham
was not the man who had taken his
team and the little one. he, together
with Bingham, came at once TO ogden
and reported the matter to the sheriff
and the police. From Herrick's de-
scription, Bingham recognized the kid
napper as man who had worked for
him during the summer. He then went
by the name of Earl Riddel, and began
work for him in the fore part of Aug
ust 1t was found that he had traded
Herricks team TO Farley Bingham for
a horse and cart, giving a bill of sale
to him.
DENIED HER OWN NAME.
A strange circumstance in the case
is that the girl seems TO have denied
her own name to the Indian trader.
An effort to reach Ross Fork last night
bv telegraph was futile. Chief Daven-
port has written for fuller particulars.
The letter was written on the letter.
head of w. B. Eldredge, licensed In
dian trader. From a Ross Fork in
mate of the State School for the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind the reporter learned
that such is the Indian traders name
at that post.
MR.. WOODS STORY.
F. c. Woods, the architect, recently
returned from Ross Fork. He is well
acquainted with Beck" Eldredge, the
Indian trader and Furthermore was at
Ross Fork Wednesday noon when two
souaws brought in the little girl. He
said 20 The Herald reporter: They
came in from Bannock Creek, arriving
at noon on Wednesday. They had the
little girl on a horse. Bannock Creek
is about 20 miles from Ross Fork. /
talked with both the souaws and little
girl. The latter said she had come
from Iowa with her brother, who had
left her with the Indians. She said
nothing about ever having been in Og-
den. One of the sduaws told me with
signs that thew had had the girl two
sleeps Bannock Creek is about 20
miles from Ross Fork. The girl ap-
reared about 10 years of age, light
commissioned and seemed quite well,
though rather unkempt. Eldredge sent
her TO the section house and ordered
some suitable clothes for her. l left
soon after her arrival, but nothing was
known of her connections in Ogden
there. The letter written to Herrick by
Eldredge was dated November 26."
The affair has excited Tyler Bing-
ham and Herrick not a little. The alb
ductor is described by them as being
about % years of age, ; feet s inches in
heighth, weighs about 145 to $50 pounds,
red hair, sand-- comDlexioned and
smooth faced. The left eye squints or
the lid hangs down in a peculiar man
ner-