Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-10-11
ABDUCTED IN BROAD day
Philadelphia Woman Says Report
ers Held Her Prisoner.
FOUR MEN HELD WITHOUT BAIL

rlcn, OF Z4l NOfJn IenIn street, STOUT
and composed, yesterday related the
story of her experience as
a prisoner in the hands of band of
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 it touched depths of the dark
side of city life heretofore unsounded.
Howard S. Sloan, of 1855 North
Twelfth street, a 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 |
E. 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 kidnap-
ping and conspiracy.
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 as 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
a drive through Paramount 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
a fine pair of richly caparisoned
horses, and with a coachman on the
! box wearing stylish livery. At lone
| ly place in Paramount Park the car
riage was stopped by man whom she
said represented himself as D. 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 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-
CINE and 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 house. where she was
kept from Friday until Monday. II
the latter place the men, who were
masked, stripped her of the jewelry
and at the point of a revolver com
PEELED her to sign bank checks FOL
various sums of money she had de
3 posted in the Third National Bank
, They made her sign for more than sh,
/ possessed, but compelled her to prom
Use she would make up the defcienc!
when they released her.
= With other information the womaI
l. gave them, the detectives began t
d work on what they believed to be
= fairy tale. They got several clues
which led them to a fire house il
n North Wayne, Is miles from this city
n The fire company is a volunteer o.
ganization, and the key to the plac
" was kept in the nearest dwelling. TIL
nearest house was occupied by fan
> fly named Findlay, and there the Dc
d lice learned that one of the sons,
e Knight Findlay, had been home bu
little during the past two weeks. &c
IS ting a description of him, the pole
st returned to the city. and found th
&c young man, who is only p years oil
v in the Office where he is employed H
was charged with the crime. and brok
= down and implicated three others.
70 Findlay said that he had impe
II sonated the coachman; that Sloan, til
unemployed reporter acted the pa
ce of Attorney Gibboney; that the barrie
8 played the part of the rich German
We town resident, and that Wallace, tn
IN society editor, had rented q house
e Germantown, where Mrs. GoodriC
was to have been held a captive. H
- told substantially the same story {
n that narrated by the woman.
nd He said they kept her confined
the fire house, and then took her
ia the house, where Sloan was arrestt
in yesterday, at 1856 North Twelfth S
w. All the jewelry was recovered, mo
". Of 1t having been found in the DC
eo session of Findlay and Sloan, wi
=. were wearing some of the rings. On
~ one check, for $155, was cashed, al
M most of this money was also recove
SIS ed. Sloan was to have begun work
IS the same newspaper on which Findl,
tn was employed today. Wallace hi
been society editor of the paper
or which he was employed for on
he two weeks.
en- The penalty for kidnapping in tn
"a state, under act of assembly,
20 amended at the last session of Il
legislature, is life Imprisonment.