The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-07
PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPER MEN
TRY TO DUPLICATE PAT
GROVES STUNT
HELD PRISONER FOUR DAYS
The Victim Is Stripped of Her
Jewels end Forced to Sign
Checks for Her
Money
CULPRITs ARE UNDER ARREST

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with kidnapping a woman and holding
her prisoner for four days, robbing
her of jewels worth more than $1,000 and
compelling her to sign bank checks for
sums of money, is the story which the
police unfolded here today when they
announced the arrest of newspaper re-
porter, society editor on morning pa
per, stenographer on another morn
ing newspaper, and a barber whom the
police charge with completely in the
crime. The men now locked up are
Howard K. Sloan, an unemployed re-
porter; Henry Wallace, society editor CT
one OF the morning papers; j. Knight
flnolay. of Wayne, near here, stenog-
rapher in the business office of another
morning paper, and Oscar Dunlap.
barber employed in one of the most
prominent shops in the city. The VIC
tim is Mrs. Mabel Goodrich, the pro-
prietor of an establishment on North
Tenth street. The four men were ar
rested last night and will be given a
hearing on Monday.
Last Monday Mrs. Goodrich went to
police headquarters and told a story of
kidnapping and robbery so daring that the
police at first doubted its truth She
said that for some time past a young
man who represented himself a resi-
dent of Germantown, had been a fire.
quent visitor at her establishment He
was well dressed and spent money free
ly. Last Wednesday week he proposed
drive through Fairmount park. He
asked her to dress in her best clothes
and for her to wear all her diamonds
and other jewelry, because on the re-
turn from the drive he intended to take
her to the finest dining room in the
city, and ne wanted her to Shine" with
the other women in the place. She ac-
cepted, and the next day she went out
with him in a carriage with pair of
richly caparisoned horses and a coach
man in the box wearing stylish livery.
BLINDFOLDED AND GAGGED.
At a lonely place in Fairmount park
the carriage was stopped by man who,
she said, represented himself as d. Clar-
ence Giboney. the secretary of the Law
and Order society of this city. This
man told her he had a warrant for her
arrest on the charge of keeping a dis
orderly house, but that the matter could
be fixed up He was invited into a car
riage and the next moment she was
gagged and blindfolded. She was driven
somewhere, she did not know where,
but she noticed from one corner of the
handkerchief over her eye that the men
paid toll at two toll gates and took in a
gateway where a heavily laden truck
was standing. She was kept prisoner
from Wednesday until Friday night
without anything to eat or drink. and
was then driven to another house, where
she was kept until Saturday night She
was stripped of her jewelry by two men
and compelled to sign checks on the
Third National bank, where she had her
money deposited They made her sign
for more than she possessed, but COM
PEELED her to promise to make up the
deficiency when she was released. One
Of tha ba hpT
long carriage ride and put her out at
Tenth and Poplar streets, a mile from
her home.
DETECTIVES GET CLEW.
With other information the woman
gave them, the detectives began to work
out what they believed to be a fairy
tale. They gained several clews. which
led them to a fire engine house in Fort
Wayne. fifteen miles from this city. The
fire company is a volunteer organization,
and the key of the place is kept in the
nearest dwelling. The nearest house was
occupied by a family named Findlay,
and there the police learned that one of
the sons, ]. knight Findlay. had been
home but little during the past two
weeks. Getting a description of him,
the police returned to this city and
found the young man, who is only TWEEN
ty-one years of age, in the Office where
the crime and broke down and implicat-
ed three others. Findlay said that he
had impersonated the coachman; that
Sloan, the unemployed reporter. acted
the part of Attorney Gibboney; that the
barber played the part of the rich Ger
mantown resident and that Wallace, the
society editor had rented a house in
Germantown where Mrs. Goodrich was
to have been held captive. He told sub
stantially the same story as that mar
rated by the woman. He said that they
kept her confined in the fire house and
then took her to a house at No. 2556
North Twelfth street, where Sloan was
arrested yesterday. The plan to keep
her in the Wallace house in GermantoYn
was abandoned in favor of the Sloan
house. Sloan, the police said, conceived
the whole plot, and it was he that got the
barber into it. He had asked Dunlap to
play the part of the rich man. and get
Mrs. Goodrich outdoors, so that he could
serve the warrant on her for keeping a
disorderly house. He did not reveal the
real purpose of the scheme to the bar
ber
All the jewelry was recovered, most of
it being found in the possession of Find
lay and Sloan, who were wearing several
of the rings. Only one check, for $155,
was cashed, and most of this money was
also recovered. Sloan was to have be-
gun working on the same newspaper on
which Findiay was employed tomorrow.
Wallace has been society editor of the
paper on which he was employed only
two weeks.