New-York tribune., 1900-10-20
BOY HELD AS A HOSTAGE.
THREE MEN ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF
ABDUCTION AND CONSPIRACY.

The police OF the Madison-st station have
under arrest three men charged with conspiracy
and abduction They are Jacob Goodgold, twen-
ty-nine years old. of No. % Hester-st, where he
keeps a fish market; Samuel Goldman twenty
eight years old, of No. 191 Henry-st, the keeper
of little candy store at that address, and
Samuel Schwartz, twenty-eight years old, a
jeweller. of No. 167 East Broadway. The men
are said by the police to be concerned in the
abduction of Morris Cohen, twenty years old
of No. l Essex-st. The police also have theory
that Goodgold and Goldman at least know the
wherea bouts of a gray horse. with a scanty
name and no tail 20 speak of, and a white canvas
covered furniture truck belonging to Wolf Co
hen, the father of the youth.
The horse and wagon were stolen on Wednes-
day. and Wolf Cohen promised to pay $50 for
their return He drew a check for that amount
and made an agreement which was intended to
satisfy Goldman that he would not be prose-
cuted He sent his Morris out with the
men to find the horse and wagon
At 10 o'clock Thursday night GoodgoId and
Goldman went again to the Cohens and said that
they and their friends had decided to hold not
only the horse and wagon but the youth until
$500 was put up for the return of both. They
finally came down in their terms until they
agreed to accept 800 more. According to the
Cohens there were also implied threats of burn
were complied with. Cohen at last drew
prOmissory note, payable month after date, for
S4O0 He agreed to deposit it with friend with
instructions turn it over to the gang
soon as the youth and the wagon were returned.
Goodgold demanded, also, that he draw up
contract which would insure him against being
prosecuted legally.
The friend who took the note and the agree
ment was Schwartz, and he was to turn them
MI
police believed him conspirator and caused his
arrest. The boy and wagon were not returned
at 10 a. m. yesterday. according to agreement,
and the Madison-st. police learned of the
from neighbors of the Cohens who talked about
it the street.
In the afternoon Acting Captain Hammond
arrested Schwartz end Goodgold and Goldman
were arrested by detectives while talking to the
Cohens and upbraiding them for talking to the
police. The police expected to arrest the fourth
man, Soloman, who had kept the boy in custody,
before daybreak to-day.
The Cohen family, their relations friends and
acquaintances, were holding d symposium on
the subject of the family troubles at 10 clock
last night when young Morris Cohen walked
suddenly into the place. He was received with
shouts and manifestations Of JOY from the fam
lily friends to the number of about eighty.
Young Cohen's story was to the effect that he
had been taken by Soloman to Brooklyn. The
latter had been under no pains to restrain him
but had led the youth to that part of the East
ern District of Brooklyn known Browns
vile. and thence to Roslyn and White
| stone Long Island. Soloman kept telling the
lad that he the track of the men who
| had the horse and wagon. Cohen had not been
allowed to sleep until late yesterday, and then
he had two hour nap in the back of
saloon. He had left Soloman at the Brooklyn
end of the Bridge, he said.
The Cohen family later modified the story they
had previously told the police. Their explana-
tion was somewhat incoherent but it seemed to
indicate that the $40o had been put up as secu-
rity that the case against Goodgold would not
be pushed. Acting Captain Hammond said this
would seem to strengthen the conspiracy feature
of the case