Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-10-02
STATE IS AFTER
KIDNAPERS
Warrants Out for Men Who Car
ried Prisoner Over Line.

LEWISTON. Idaho, Oct. 2-The /
state OF Idaho has demanded the ar
rest o. Deputy sheriff Nose Martin i
Of AaotIn county. Sheriff w. H. Dix
on and Prosecuting Attorney A. A.
Kirby Of GARFIELD county. Wash, on
charge Of kidnapping NJ. o. FItz-
maurice. editor OF two newspapers at
Pomeroy.
Warrants were issued today In
Justice Hazen's court and placed Ia |
the hands OF Sheriff Harry Lydon
Warrants charging John Doe and |
Richard Roe with conspiracy in the
kidnapping case we're also secured.
but the oficers decline to dIvuige the
identity OF the persons implicated.
The evideace now In the hands of
the Neg Perez county ofieials sug-
gests that the kidnapping Of Fitamau-
rice was in direct violation OF the
laws of the state OF Idaho. and coun-
ty Attorney Daniel Needham has
made q definite statement to the eF-
feet that this violation OF the law
will be most vigorously prosecuted.
implicated Men May Confess.
II Is understood today that parties
indirectly implicated In the kidnap-
ing Of the editor are ready to make
complete statements covering all the
features OF the conspiracy and it is
respected that sensational develop
ments will be uncovered tomorrow
The fight between Fitzmauriee and
the officers was witnessed by large
number OF citizens Of Charleston and
Asotin. who were passing over the
Lewiston-C Charleston bridge at the
time the prisoner was forcibly car
ried over the Idaho line, and All de-
nounce the action Of the Washington
officials as most brutal In the event
that the officers against whom war
rants have been issued refuse 10 re-
turn to Idaho to face the charges
requisition papers viii be demanded
without delay and the purpose OF the
Idaho authorities is to bring the mat
ter to trial at the earliest possible
date.
Fitzmaurice Locked On Jail.
PoMER0Y. Wash. Oct IN. o.
Fitzmaurice. erstwhiie editor Of the
Garfield County Standard and the Co
lumbia County Sentinel. both printed
at Pomeroy. Is In jail here charged
with criminal libel on a warrant
sworn out by H. C. Benbow. editor
Of the Columbia County Dispatch.
FitzmauFice was arrested in Lewis
. ton. Idaho, and refused to come
across the state line for some time
When asked II the report that he was
abducted and carried across was true,
he said. my lawyers forbid any
statement. Later. however. he said
that he could not contradict the state
ment that he was shanghIed into
Washington.
Mr.. Fitzmauriee says the alleged
libelous articles were not written by
him and that they we're not pub
lished with his consent. but appeared
while he was In Spokane. and that
he and Mr.. Benbow are the best of
friends. He declared that he knows
the authors Of the articles and that
as soon as he Is out be win write
the complete history OF the AFFAIR.
He is sangaine as to his release.
His paper was started here lately.
and Is republican and temperance.
FitzmauFice says he Is a cousin OF the
editor OF the Omaha Bee. author OF
! book that has had three editions,
d and that before entering newspaper
dom he was a professional lecturer
3 sometimes making as high as $500
, a night. but that he lost all his
y money IN the Boeur war. He says he
. never built q Gre before he was IN
. jail. and that he Is connected with the
British peeEsge.
e He said last evening that be did
not know who was editing his paper
e Il IL rumored here that two men
who are charged by Fitzmauriee with
writing the articles In question are
to be arrested. Mr.. BsnbOE has beer
A In Pomeroy today consulting his law
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