The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-10-17
ABDUCTED IN BROAD DAY
Philadelphia Woman Says Report
ers Held Her Prisoner.
FOUR MEN HELD WITHOUT BAIL

Dime Novel Like Happening In staid
Philadelphia startIes the Country.
Perpetrators Under New state Law
Are Liable to Imprisonment for Life.
Philadelphia. Oct. S.-Mabel Good.
rich, Of 24l North Tenth street, stout
and composed. yesterday related the
sensational story Of her experience a.
prisoner in the hands Of a band Of
kidnappers. When, last week, she
made complaint to the police they
cried impossible" But now the de-
tectives admit that the crime was real
and that 1t touched depths Of the dark
side Of city life heretofore unsounded
Howard s. Sloan. Of 1856 North
Twelfth street, reporter employed
at various times upon the Inquirer
and Times. was. after yesterdays
hearing. held without bail upon the
charges OF kidnapping and conspiracy,
and in $1,000 bail each upon charges
Of assault and battery and highway
robbery. d. knight Finlay. OF Wayne,
Pa. a stenographer in the employ OF
The North American. was held In the
same way for similar charges. Harry
K. Wallace, Of 124 North Seventeenth
street, society editor Of The Press,
and Oscar S. Dunlap, a barber, living
at 5257 Addison street. were held
without bail upon charges OF hdnap,
ping and conspiracy.
Last Monday Mrs. Goodrich went to
police headquarters and told story
Of kidnapping and robbery 80 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 well dressed
and spent money freely. Last We'd
nesday a week, she said, 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 he wanted her to shine"
with the other women in the place.
She accepted, and the next day she
went out with him in a carriage, with
q fine pair of richly caparisoned
horses, and with coachman on the
box wearing stylish livery. At lone
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
to say, told her that he had a warrant
for her arrest on the charge of keep
ing disorderly house, but that the
matter could be fxed 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 building where fire en-
gine and a hook and ladder truck were
She was kept prisoner from Thurs
day night until Friday night, without
then taken on another long drive.
to a house, where she was
kept from Friday until Monday. In
the latter place the men, who were
stripped her Of the jewelry.
and at the point of a revolver com
PEELED 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, but compelled her to prom
ise she would make up the deficiency
when they released her.
With other information the woman
gave them, the detectives began to
work on what they believed to be
fairy tale. They got several clues.
which led them to fire house in
North Wayne, Is miles from this city.
The fire company is volunteer or
ganization. and the key to the place
was kept in the nearest dwelling. The
nearest house was occupied by fam
lily named Findlay, and there the po-
lice learned that one of the sons, j.
Knight Findlay, had been home but
little during the past two weeks. Get
ting description Of him, the police
returned to the city, and found the
young man, who is only II 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-
soma ed the coachman; that Sloan, the
unem ployed reporter, acted the part
Of Attorney Gibboney; that the barber
played the part of the rich German
town resident, and that Wallace, the
society editor, had rented house in
where Mrs. Goodrich
was to have been held a captive. He
told substantially the same story as
that narrated by the woman.
He said they kept her confined in
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