The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-10-10
CASE OF BOLD KIDNAPPING
WOMAN ROBBED OF JEWELS.

; A Daring Act BY Newspaper Men-
Their scheme Carriea Oat Al
Right, Then One Confessea 81 tn
Deed-Prlsoner HAD signed Cheek,
! and Was starved for Three Days
Philadelphia, Oct. Charged Will
kidnapping woman and holding hel
/, prisoner for four days. robbing her Of
jewels worth more than $4,000 and com
pelling her to sign bank checks fol
/ large sums OF money. two newspaper
men, a stenographer In newspape,
Office and barber, are now locked ur
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, a barber en-
ployed 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.
Mrs. Goodrich went to police head
quarters and said that for soma time
past young man who represented him.
self as a resident of Germantown had
been frequent visitor at her estaa-
lishment- He was well dressed, and
spent money freely. Last Wednesday
week. she said he proposed a 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 carriage
with . pair Of richly caparisoned
horses and with coachman on the box
wearing stylish livery
At lonely place in Paramount park
the carriage was stopped by a 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
tor her arrest on the charge of keeping
a disorderly house, bur that the matter
could be fixed up. He was invited into
the carriage. and the next moment. she
was gagged and bIindfolded. She was
driven somewhere, she did not know
where, but she noticed from one corner
Of the handkerchief over her eyes that
he had paid toll at two toll gates, and i
that they took her into a building
where FIRE engine and hook and !
ladder truck were standing.
She was kept prisoner from Tues
day night until Friday night without !
to eat or drink, and was then |
taken on another long drive. blindfold-
ed, to "a house where she was kept from
Friday until Monday. In the latter
place the men, who were masked, !
stripped her OF her jewelry, and. at the
point OF revolver, compelled her to
sign bank checks for various sums of
money she had deposited in the Third
National bank. They made her sign !,
for more than she possessed. but COM
PEELED her to promise that she would
make up the deficiency when they re-
leased her. The men, she said, then
took her on another long drive and |
put her out of the carriage at Tenth
and Polar streets, about a mile from
her house. 4
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 a fire
engine house in Fort Wayne. fifteen
miles from this city. The fire company
"a volunteer organization. and the
Key to the place was kept in the near
sst dwelling. The nearest house was
by q family named Findlay,
md there the police learned that one OF
the sons. ]. Knight Findlay, had been
home but little during the past two
weeks.
Getting description, the police re-
urned to the city and found the young,
nan, who is only 81 years old. in the
mice where he ID employed. He was
charged with the crime. and broke
Town and implicated tire others. Find
az said that he unprecedented the
that Sloan, the unemployed
exporter. took the part Of Attorney
Nbbony: that the barber played the
'art Of the rich Germantown resident;
hat Wallace, the society editor, had
ented . house in Germantown. where
drs- Goodrich was TO have been held
aptive. s
Findlay told substantially the story
Q that narrated by the woman. He
aid that they kept her confined In the
Ire house and then took her TO . house
t No. 1855 North Twelfth otreet, where