Evening journal., 1901-10-07
WAS ABDUCTED
IN BROAD DAY
Philadelphia Woman Says Re.
DOrterS Held Her Prisoner
SalS She Vas Robbed Of Jewels and
Compelled at Pistol Point 10
Sign Cheeks


kidnapping a woman and holding her
a prisoner for four days, robbing her
Of Jewels worth more than $1,000. and
compelling her to sign bank checks
for large sums Of money is the story
which the police unfolded here yester-
day. when they announced the arrest OF
two newspaper men, a stenographer |
in another newspaper office and a bar
ber all Of whom are charged with
completely in the crime.
The nem now locked up at the CEN
tral police station are Howard X
Sloan. an unemployed reporter; Henry
Wallace, society editor of one of the
morning newspapers; j. Knight Find
lay of Wayne. near here. stenogra-
pher 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.
The victim is Mrs. Mabel Goodrich,
the proprietress of an establishment
on North Tenth street. The four men
were arrested on Saturday night and
viii be given hearing today.
Last Monday Mrs Goodrich went TO
police headquarters and told story
OF kidnapping and robbery so daring
that the police at first doubted its
truth. She said that for some time
past young man, who represented
himself as a resident of Germantown,
had been a frequent visitor at her es-
tablishment. He was we'll dressed
and spent money freely. Last We'd
nesday a week, she said. he proposed
Q 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 he wanted her to shine"
with the other women in the place.
She accepted, and the next day sne
went out with him IN a carriage, with
fine pair of richly caparisoned
horses, and with a coaohman on the
box wearing stylish livery. At a lone
ly place in Fairmount Park the car
riage was stopped by man whom she
said represented himself as ID. Clar-
ence Gibboney. the secretary and at
torney of the Law and Order Society
of this city. This man. she went on
70 say, told her that he had warrant
for her arrest on the charge Of keep
ing a disorderly house. but that the
matter could be fixed up. He was In
vited into the carriage. and the next
moment she was gagged and blind
folded She was driven somewhere
she did not know. but she noticed
from one corner of the handkerchief
over her eyes that the men paid toll
at two toll gates and that they took
her into a building where a FIRE en-.
gine and a hook and ladder truck were
standing
She was kept a prisoner from Thurs
day night until Friday night. without
anything to eat or drink. and was
then taken on another long drive,
blindfolded, to a house, where she was
kept from Friday until Monday In
the latter ilace the men, who were
masked, stripped her OF the jewelry
and at the point of a revolver com
pelied her to sign bank checks for
various sums of money she had de-
posted in the Third National Bank.
They made her sign for more than she
possessed, compelled her to prom.
Use she would make up the deficiency
when they released her. The men.
she said, then took her on another
long drive. and put her out at Tenth
and Poplar streets. about a mile from
d her house.
with other information the woman
gave them, the detectives began to
work on what they believed to be a
fairy tale They got several clues,
which led them to a fire house in
North Wayne is miles from this city
The fire company is a volunteer or
ganization. and the key 10 the place
was kept in the nearest dwelling The
nearest house was occupied by fam
fly named Findlay. and there the po
lice learned thGs one Of the sons,
Knight Findlay. had been home bui
little during the past two weeks. Get
ting a description Of him, the policl
returned to the city, and found the
young man, who is only q years old
in the Office where he is employed. He
was charged with the crime and broke
down and implicated three others.
Findlay said that he had imper
sonated the coachman; that Sloan, the
unemployed reporter, acted the par
of Attorney Gibboney; that the barber
played the part of the rich German
town resident. and that Wallace. the
society editor, had rented a house il
Germantown, where Mrs. Goodrich
was to have been held a captive. HI
told substantially the same story a
that narrated by the woman.
He said they kept her confined &
the fire house. and then took her {
the house. where Sloan was srreste
yesterday at 1850 North Tweift
street. The plan to keep her in tn
Wallace house in Germantown wa
abandoned in favor Of the Sloa
house. Sloan the police said. COZ
ceiyed the whole plot. and It was
that got the barber into f. He La
asked Dunlap TO play the part of "a
rich man and get Mrs. Goodrich GU
doors. 6. lrat he could serv1 a wa