Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-05-09
FORMER IDAHO SPRINGS MAN IS CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING
George Malcolm Miller According to the Claims Made Gives Paso
Texas, Touch Of Strenuous Life.

DOru 10 tnem. ne nuSOaDu was eIl-
ployed by the Roberts Bros Mercantile
company for some time and the woman,
recently divorced was married a short
time ago to William Young. a barber at
one time employed in Hanson's barber
shop. Trouble has been brewing in the
family for some time and the story told
by the woman is an interesting one.
We clip the following extended notice of
the sensation from the FL Paso Times;
There was genuine case of kidnap-
ing in this city last evening but if the
.kidnapers wanted to carry off their vic
tim they failed to accomplish their pur-
pose. Whether they intended taking
him away or not, is question, and it
may have been that the victim was
roughly treated simply as punishment
to his mother, who is divorced from the
alleged kidnaper, the father of the VIC
tim.
The victim of the plot was Edwin
Miller, aged twelve years, but large for
his age, and son of Mrs. William S.
Young, of GA North Kansas street; the
man who did the kidnapping, according
to the victim, was his father, George
Malcolm Miller, alias Harry Ferguson,
alias Ferg Hays, alias Harry Franklin.
The boy was caught on South Stanton
street yesterday afternoon at FIVE O'Clock
according to his story, bound and gagged
and thrown into c. H boxcar and left
for two hours, where he was found later,
released and taken home. When he
was taken prisoner he was badly cut on
one hand and in tying him his captors-
there were three of them, he says, his
father and two other men-bruised him
in various places. He was tied hands to
his feet. gagged and left in that position
from Eve O'Clock to seven. He says that
he could plainly see his captors and that
his father was one of them, although he
did not pretend to recognize him at the
time because he feared him. No trace
of the kidnapers has been found since
the occurrence and it is believed that
they have left the city.
A Herald reporter called on Mrs.
Young this morning at her home on
North Kansas street, and there got
complete story from her and her son
about the kidnapping, her separation from
her former husband, the life which she
saws he has led, and other matters con-
nected with the case. The boy was suf- |
fering from nervous prostration and was
nursing his sore hand and his bruises. |
His mother said, in his presence as he
lay on the bed:
Edwin was kidnapped by his father
and two other men last evening at five
o'clock and after being bound and gag
ped and thrown into a box car for two |
hours he was rescued and brought home.
He could easily recognize his father and
there is no mistake about who it was
that engineered the kidnapping. I do not
know the object which the man had,
he thought he could get re-
ward for the boy, whether he desired to
take him away with HIM. or whether he
merely had desire to frighten me. I
do know, however, that he caught the
boy and kept him captive for two hours.
Edwin was coming along Stanton
street shortly before five O'Clock when
strange man stopped him and asked him
to go to a store and get some rope.
handing him dollar. Edwin is always
ready to oblige and went for the rope.
When he returned to the place where he
was accosted, the man who gave him the
dollar was not there and he waited
little while. About FIVE O'Clock two
men came up, one Of them the one that
wanted the rope, and watching a favor
able opportunity, they seized the boy
and, gagging him, took him to an
empty freight car, where they were
Joined by third man whom Edwin rec
ognized as his father and my former hus-
band. They made him place his hands
down to his feet and tied him and then |
placing a gag in his mouth, after taking
his watch and money, later leaving the
watch in crevice at the top of the car,
they left and he laid there for two hours.
He SAYS that he tried his best to make a |
noise, but it was SO slight that the people
passing did not hear him. He had three
dollars and seventy-fve cents in his
pockets, which they took from him.
In trying to hold him before they got to
the car one of the men cut the boys |