Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-10-11
CASE OF BOLD KIDNAPPING
WOMAN ROBBED OF JEWELS
A Daring Act by Newspaper Men
Their scheme Carried Out All
Deed-PrlsOner Had signed Checks
and Was Starved for Three Days.

hI8nts Tmem One COu1eSoe0 Oh tine
Deed-Prisoner Had signed Checks
and Was Starved for Three Days.
Philadelphia, Oct. Enlarged with
kidnapping a woman and holding her
prisoner for four days. robbing her of
jewels worth more than $4,000 and CON-
polling her to sign bank checks for
large sums OF money, two newspaper
men. q stenographer in a newspaper
once and a barber. are now locked up
at the police station. They are How.
ard X. Sloan, an unemployed reporter;
Henry Wallace. society editor of one OF
the morning papers; J. Knight Findlay
OF Wayne, near here, stenOgrapher In
the business Office OF another morning
paper. and Oscar Dunlap. barber en-
ployed In one of the most prominent
shops in the city.
The victim Is Mrs. Mabel Goodrich,
the prOprletress OF an establishment on
North Tenth street.
Mrs. Goodrich went to police head
quarters and said that for some time
past young man who represented him.
self as a resident of Germantown had
been frequent visitor at her estah.
llshment. He was we'll dressed, and
spent money freely. Last Wednesday
week, she said he proposed q drive
through Paramount park He asked her
to dress In her best clothes and to wear
all her diamonds and other jewels, be-
cause on the returning drive he intend.
ed 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 q carriage
with q pair of richly caparisoned
horses and with a coachman on the box
wearing stylish livery.
At lonely place In Fairmount park
the carriage was stopped by q man
who. she said. represented himself as
d. Clarence Gibboney, secretary and
attorney 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 keeping
q disorderly house. but that the matter
could be fixed up. He was invited into
the carriage. and the next moment she
was gagged and bMndfolded. She was
driven somewhere, she did not know
whore. but che noticed from one corner
of the handkerchief over her eyes that
he had paid toll at two toll gates. and
that they took her into q building
whore a Ore engine and q hook and
ladder truck were standing.
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day night until Friday night without
anything to eat or drink, and was then
taken on another long drive. blindfold-
ed. to q house whore abe was kept from
Friday until Monday. In the latter
place the men. who were masked,
stripped her Of her 3ewelry. and, at the
point Of Q revolver. compelled her to
sign bank checks for various sums Of
money she had deposited In the Third
National bank. They made her sign
tor more than che possessed. but com.
PEELED her TO promise that she would
make up che deficiency when they re-
leased her. The men. she satd, then
took her on another long drive and
put her out Of the carriage ct Tenth
and Polar streets. about Z mile from
her house.
with other Information given them,
the detectives began work on what they
believed to be . fairy tale. They got
several clues which led them to q Are
engine house In Fort Wayne. fifteen
mtles from thds city. The hre company
10 q volunteer organization. and the
key 10 the place was kept In the near
est dwelling. The nearest house was
occupied by q 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 q description. the police re-
turned to the city and found the young
man, who 10 only 81 years old. In the
once where he 10 employed. He was
charged with the crime. and broke
down and implicated thre others. Find
lay said that he impersonated the
coachman: that sloan. the unemployed
reporter. took the part Of Attorney
Gibbony; that the barber played the
part Of the rich Germantown resident;
that Wallace. the society editor, had
rented . house In Germantown. where
Mrs. Goodrich was to have been held q
captive.
Tindlay bold substantially the story
a. that narrated by the woman. He
said that they kept her confined In the
fire house and then took her to . house
at No. 1858 North Twelfth street, where
Sloan was arrested yesterday. The
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