Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-07
KIDNAPPED A WOMAN
Society Woman of Philadelphia
Abducted and Kept Prisoner
Five Days.
Held for Ransom, Part OF Which
She Pays in Jewelry and
Checks.
|
Four Young Men Under Arrest
and Part Of the Gems
Recovered.

Recovered.
Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. -Four mer
charged with abducting a Philadelphia
women in broad daylight and of binding
4 gagging, starving and robbing her are
| now under arrest in this city and will be
arraigned before Magistrate Kochesper-
| ger today. The woman in the case is
Mabel Goodrich, of PAL North Tenth
| street.
The men now locked up at the Central
police station are Howard *. Sloan, an
! unemployed reporter; Henry Wallace.
society editor of one of the morning pa
pers; j. Knight Findlay, of Fort Wayne,
near here, stenographer in the business
office of another morning paper; and
Oscar S. Dunlap, a barber employed in
one of the most prominent shops in the
city.
Disguises, pistols, masks and a lone
house on a. country road figure in THIS
modern emulation of fifteenth century
methods, The plumber accruing was S65
il cash, $1,000 in jewels and about $500
In checks. With the exception of the
casting of one check for S155, all the
stolen property has been recovered.
According to the police young Wallace
had begun visiting Miss Goodrich as
early as last April. The real story of
the abduction, however, starts on
Wednesday, Sept. 20. On that day, it is
charged. Oscar S. Dunlap called at Miss
iGoodrichs house and invited her to take
4 drive with him the next day. On
Thursday afternoon, Sept. 26, Dunlap
called to keep his appointment. He had
a we'll appointed team. and liveried
driver held the reins. The driver, the
of the conspirators, suitably disguised
for the occasion.
She was driven somewhere, she did
not know, but she noticed from one corr
ner of the handkerchief over her eyes
that the men paid toll at two toll gates
and that they took her into building
where a fire engine and hook and lad
der truck were standing.
There the woman was locked up in a
bedroom until Friday morning. Her
captors told her that $4,000 was wanted
and that when that was Forthcoming
she could go. On Friday the woman was
again bound and taken in n carriage to
1856 North Twelfth street. From Friday
until Monday she was guarded day and
night.
On Monday morning she began to
weaken She had s65 with her. and that
szuou worth WORT III III Js en- ny
had nothing else with her, she declared.
Finally, however, she found some blank
checks on the Third National Bank in
her pocketbook, and suggested she fill
these out. She made out five checks in
all, one for s155, one for si5, three for
500 each,
On Tuesday at daybreak the men
her and she was bundled
into a carriage and driven to Tenth and
Poplar streets. the bandage taken from
her eyes, and she was thrust from the
vehicle, Then the horses were dashed
and the carriage whisked around the
corner.
The woman was 50 weak and bewil-
dered that it took her two hours to
reach home. From there she went to
the city hall. She told her story, but
the police only smiled at her. After
some investigation. however, the police
accepted the story as true. Detectives
McGenty and Donagly We're assigned to
the case, and the first place they visited
was the Third National Bank. One
check had been cashed of the five given.
the one for SIS. 1t was cashed an hour
before the officers arrived.
Then Detectives McGenty and Donag-
~ hired coupe and proceeded to drive
over the course indicatedNb Miss Good
rich in her narrative. she had noticed
a particularly bright child at one of the
toll gates they passed. The detectives
located this toll gate on the Montsom-
cry pike, near General Wayne Hotel.
Then they proceeded to look up a build
ing answering the description given OF
a suburban fire housc.
After much search and inquiry they
located the fire engine house at North
Wayne. This proved to be the place
Miss Goodrich had told them about, and
where she said she had been imprisoned
FOR twenty-four hours. The detectives
asked boy who kept the keys TO the
fire house. and they were directed to
Finlay's house adjoining.
There the police learned that one of
the sons, j. Knight Findlay, had beer
nome but little during the last two
weeks. Getting description of him,
The police returned to the city and
found the young man, who is only q
years old. in the office where he is en-
ployed He wac charged with the crime
and broke down and implicated three
others.
Findlay said that he had impersonat
.H-1t- %l,< i
ployed reporter, acted the part of At
torney Gibbony: that the barber played
the part of the rich Germantown resi-
ience, and that Wallace. the society ed
tor. had rented house in German
town, where Miss Goodrich was to have
been held captive.
Blasts From RAMS Horn.
When faith fails selfishness prevails.
Righteousness is the richest reward of
The right.