The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-07
BOLD CASE OF KIDNAPPING
PHIL4DELPHfA NRWSPA
CARRY OFF Il OMAN.
Robbed Her of Jewels Worth $4,000
and Compelled Her at the Point Of a
Revolver to Sign Bank Checks for
Large sums One of the Men CON fesses

and Compelled Her at the Point Of a
Large sums One of the Men Con nfesses.
Philadelphia, Oct 6.-Charged with
kidnapping a woman and holding her
a prisoner for four days, robbing her
of jewels worth more than $4,000 and
compelling her to sign bank checks for
large sums of money is the story which
the police unfolded here to-day when
they announced the arrest of two news
paper men, a stenographer in another
newspaper office and a barber, all of
whom are charged with completely in
the crime. The men, now locked up at
the central police station, are Howard
X. Sloan, an unemployed reporter;
Henry Wallace. society editor of one of
the morning newspapers; j. Knight
Findlay, of Wayne, near here, stenog
rapher in the business office Of another
morning paper and Oscar S. Dunlap,
barber employed In one Of the most
prominent shops in the city The vic
tim is Mrs. Mebel Goodrich, of North
Tenth street. The four men We're ar
rested last night and will be given a
hearing tomorrow.
Last Monday Mrs Goodrich went to
police headquarters and told story Of
kidnapping and robbery so daring that
the police at>first doubted it's truth, She
said that young man who represented
himself as a resident of Germantown
last Wednesday week proposed a drive
through Fairmount park. She went
out with him in a carriage with a 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
man who she said represented himself
as D. Clarence Gibbony the secretary
and attorney of the Law and Order So
ciety of this city. This man, she went
on to say, told her that he had a war
rant for her arrest on the charge Of
keeping disorderly house, but that
the matter could be fixed up. He was
invited into the carriage and the next
moment she was gagged and blindfold-
ed. The men conveyed her into build
ing where a fire engine and a hook and
ladder truck were standing. She was
kept a prisoner from Tuesday night un-
til 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. In the latter place the
men, who were masked, stripped her of
the jewelry and at the point of a re-
volver compelled her to sign bank
checks for various sums of money she
had deposited in the Third National
bank. The men finally put her out of
carriage at Tenth and Poplar streets,
about a mile from her house.
The detectives secured several clues
which led them to a fire house in
Wayne fifteen miles from this city. The
ire company is volunteer organiza-
ion, and the key to the place was kept
n the nearest dwelling. The nearest
louse was occupied by family named
and there the police learned
hat one oA the sons was j. Knight
7indlay ting description of him
he police returned to the city and
ound the young man, who,is twenty
me years old, in the office where he is
He was charged with the
rime and broke down and implicated
hree others.
F'indlay said that he had imperson-
ted the coachman; that Sloan. the un
mployed reporter, acted the part of
Attorney Gibbony; that the barber
,layed the part of the rich German
own resident, and that Wallace, the
ociety editor, had rented house in !
where Mrs. Goodrich was ,
0 have been held captive. Sloan, the
olice said, conceived the whole plot, '
Ie was to have begun work on the s
anne newspaper on which Findlay was 7
tomorrow. Wallace has been c
ociety editor of the paper on which he t
as employed for only two weeks. &