The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-07
EDNAP WOMAN
AND ROB HER
-Four Men Beguile Landlady Into
q Trap.
HolD CAPTIVE FOR DAYS
TAKE JEWELRY WORTH So 1000
AND BANK CHECKS.

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kidnapping a woman and holding her
\ a prisoner for four days robbing her
q II jewels worth more than 1000 and
compelling her to sign bank checks for
large sums Of money. two newspaper
$ men stenographer in a newspaper
office and Il barber are now locked UP
= at the police station They are How
ird K Sloan. an unemployed l'ePOr yer
Henry Wallace, society editor OF one
the morning papers; J. Knight tlnd-
" Of Wayne, near here, stenOgrapher
the business office of another morn
< paper. and oscar :. Dunlap,
Arber employed in one of the most
Omnent shops in the city.
rhe victim IS Mrs. Mabel Goodrich,
propriC-ress of an establishment
North Tenth street.
Invited to a Drive.
asst Monday Mrs. Goodrich went TO
&c Headquarters and said that for
l. ,tafne past a young man. who rep
Zhnted himself as resident OF Ger
Hntown. had been FREQUENT visitor
her establishment. He was well
EireSsed and spent money freely Last
q "wednesday week, she said, he propos ed
a dive through Fairmount park. he
asked her to dress in her best clothes
and to wear all her diamonds and
other jewelry. because on the return
from the drive he intended to take her
10 the finest dining room in the city,
and he wanted her to shine with the
: other women in the place. she &C
cepted and the next day she went out
with him in a carriage with pair of
richly caparisOned horses ana with a
coachman on the box wearing stylish
y livery.
At 2 lonefv place IN Paramount park
the carriage was stopped by a man,
f. who. she said. represented himself as
u. Clarence Gibbony, secretary and at
torney Of the Law and Order society
OF this city. This MAJ she went on 10
toll na no ha la Mt for
her arrest on the charge of keeping a
disorderly house. but that the matter
could be fixed up.
Gagged and Blindfolded.
He was invited into the carriage, and
the next moment she was gagged and
blindfOlded. She vas driven some
where, she did not know where, but
she noticed from one corner of the
handkerchief over her eyes that the
men had paid toll at two toll gates and
that they took her into building
where a fire engine and hook and lad
der truck were standing.
she was Kept prisoner from Tues
day night until Friday night without
anything to eat or drink. and was theT
taken on another long drive, blind
folded to a house, where she was KEEP
from Friday until Monday. In the lat
ter place the men, who were masked
stripped her Of the jewelry and at tn,
point OF a revolver compelled her Z,
sign bank checks for various sums o
money she had deposited in the Thft
National bank They made her sign 70
more than she possessed. but compelIe,
her TO promise that she would make III
the deficiency when they released her
The men, she said, then took her OF
Ne1h&rs-T = driT and put her out o
the .carTiaL~ at Tenth and PoDla
streets. abour mile from her house.
Thought it Fairy Tale.
With other information the woman
gave them. the detectives began L
work on what they believed to be
; fairy tale.
They got several clevs which Ie
them 10 a fire engine house in For
Wayne, fifteen miles from this city
The fire company is a volunteer origin
izstion and the key to the place wa
kept in the nearest dwelling. I'll
nearest house was occupied by a fam
ily named Findlay and there the 20
lice learned that one of the sons, ,
Knight Findlay, had been home bu
Ittle during the past two weeks. Get
ting 2 description of him the polio
returned 10 the city and found tn
young man. who is only II years Ol,
in the Office where he is employed. Il
was charged with the crime. brob
down and implicated three other
f'indlSy said that he had impersonate
the cOachman: that Sloan. the unen
ployed reporter. acted the part of \
torney Gibbney, that the barD'
played the part OF the rich German
town resident. and that Wallaces q
society editor. had rented a house
- Germantown. where Mrs. GOodriC
-----STas to have been held a captive.
Confirms Woman's Story.
he told substantially the same stoi
ag that narrated by the woman.
faid that they kept her confined in Il
fire house and then took her TO
house at 2556 North Twelfth stree
where SlCan was arrested yesteTdR
The plan TO keep her in the Walla
house in Germantown was abandon
in favor of the Sloan house. Sloan. 4
- police say. conceived the whole pie
and il was he that got the barber in
IT., he had asked Dunlap TO play :
part of the rich man and get NJ
Goodrich outdoors 50 that he cot
serve the warrant on her for keep
q dlsorderly house. He did not
veal the real purpose of the scheme
the barber. All the jeWeiry was
eoveree. most of it having been fou
in the possession of Findlay and Sios
who were wearing several of tire rim,
only one check. for S155. was cash,
and most OF this money was also
covered. Sloan was to have beg
work tomorrow on the same newspaT
on which Findlay was employed. w
lace has been society ed.tO. of the Z
per on which he WAS on D1oynd for or