The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-10-11
CASE Of BOLD KIDNAPPING
WOMAN ROBBED OF JEWELS
y Daring Act by Newspaper Men-Their
Scheme Carried Out Alright, then one
Confessed OF the Deed Prisoner Had
Signed Checks and Was Starved for
Three Days-Everything Recovered.

kidnapping a woman and holding her
prisoner for four days, rObbing her of
Jewels worth more than $4,000 and com
polling her to sign bank checks for
large sums of money, two newspaper
men, a stenographer in newspaper
office 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 proprietress 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 resident of Germantown had
been a frequent visitor at her estab-
Iishment He was we'll 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 a carriage
with a pair of richly caparisoned
horses and with a coachman on the box
wearing a stylish livery.
At lonely place in Paramount park
the carriage was stopped by a man
who she said, represented himself as
ID. 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
a disorderly house, but that the matter
could be fixed up. He was invited into
the carriage, and the next moment she
was gagged and bhindfolded 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 AZ two toll gates. and
that they took her into a building
where a fire engine and hook and
ladder truck were standing
She was kept a prisoner frcm Tues
day night until Friday night without
anything to eat or drink, ana was then
taken on another long drive, blindfOld-
ed ito "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 20 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
With other information given them,
the detectives began work on what they
believed to be a 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
Is a volunteer organization, and the
key 20 the place was kept in the near
est dwelling. The nearest house was
occupied by a family named Findlay
and there the police learned that one OF
the sons. ]. Knight Findlay, had beer
home but little during the past two
weeks
Getting a description, the police re
burned to the city and found the young
man. who is only p years old. in the
office where he is employed. He wai
charged with the crime. and brok'
down and implicated thre others. Find
lay said that he impersonated tn,
coachman; that Sloan. the unemploye,
reporter took the part of Attorne,
Gibbony; that the barber played tn
part of the rich Germantown resident
that Wallace, the society editor. ha
rented a house in Germantown, wher
Mrs. Goodrich was to have been held
captive
Findlay told substantially the stor
as that narrated by the woman. II
said that they kept her confined in tn
fire house and then took her TO a hous
at No 1856 North Twelfth street, wher
Sloan was arrested yesterday. Tn
plan to keep her in the Wallace hous
in Germantown was abandoned in fl
vor of the Sloan house. Sloan. the Do
lice say, conceived the whole plot, an
lit was he that got the barber into Il