Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-13
OFFICERS KIDNAP
WEALTHY YOUTH
AMMUNITION IN FACE, He
TELLS AGENT
HABEAs CORPUS RELEASES HIM
TEMPORARILY
Is Alleged to Be Wanted In New York
on a Serious Charge-Father
Calls 1t Black
mail
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12.-Robert
w. Fullerton, who was arrested at
Seattle and brought to this city on the
steamer Watson by two detectives from
New York city, appeared in Superior
Judge Seawells court today with pc
tition for writ of habeas corpus. He
was remanded to the custody of the
sheriff pending the final decision of the
petition next Thursday.
Detective Fitzsimmons denied the
statement that he used harsh measures
In effecting the arrest of Fullerton. he
said the young man was taken into
custody by the Seattle police on the
lieutenant governors warrant and later
turned over to him. He said that at
the time the transfer of the prisoner
was made he reached for his rear
pocket to pull out a pair OF handcu1S
and that Fullerton said their use would
not be necessary, as he would accom-
pany the officers without resistance.
SEATTLE, Wash. May 12.-R. w.
Fullerton, Cornell graduate and son of
s. II. Fullerton of st. Louis, Mo-, presi.
dent of the Chicago Lumber and Coal
company, was taken at the point of
gun by the New York detectives from
MS ONCE SATURDAY nOOIl, pidcSu III ali
automobile and taken aboard the steam
ship Watson, just before sailing for
San Francisco. The man and his kid
napers are bound for New York.
The arrest was made upon request
for a requisition by Governor Hughes
of New York. John d. Collins, coast
manager of the company, received
short, hurriedly scrubbed note from
Fullerton Sunday night as follows:
Am arrested and on my way to New
York. Prerogative of habeas corpus de-
MED me. Wire father full particulars.
Too much ammunition in my face"
The young man is charged with a
crime against Gladys Hobart of New
York city and with breach of promise.
Requisition papers were obtained by
Rowland Fitzsimmons as an agent of
District Attorney Jerome Friday at
Olympia.
Get Habeas Corpus
When the ship Watson came into
port at $40 o'clock this morning Dep
uty Sheriff Martin Tierney stepped on
board and served the New York Of
ficers with a writ of habeas corpus
made returnable before Judge Seawell
at 10 o'clock this morning. At that
hour Fullerton appeared in court. He
was very pale and declared he was
completely exhausted from the loss of
sleep and lack of food as he had neith-
err slept nor ate anything since leaving
Seattle last Sunday. He was repre-
scented by Attorney Peter Dunno, who
stated to the court that Fullerton had
been taken by violence and had never
been allowed his rights.
On the other hand, Assistant District
Attorney Robert Harrison, represent
ing the New York authorities contend
ed that the oXtradition papers had
been regularly signed by the acting
governor of Washington and that the
deputies should be allowed TO proceed
east with their charge. A telegram
from Acting Governor Coon of Wash
ington was next read, in which he
stated that he was willing to have the
habeas corpus proceedings go on here.
In view of this Judge Seawell set
O'Clock this afternoon as the time TO
hear the case.
Declines to Talk
Acting on the advice of his attorney
Fullerton declined TO make any state
ment ror the press relative to the ac-
cusation against him. He was taken
from the court room in an automobile
and remained al the office of his at
torney under guard until this after
Moons session.
When the hearing was resumed at
9 o'clock the New York detectives who
brought Fullerton from Seattle filed
an answer to the charges made by his
attorney in their application for re-
lease on habeas corpus. The officers
in thSir answer deny that Fullerton
was kidnapped and say that he was
arrested in a regular form by the
Seattle police. They also assert that
the note he sent to John D. Collins
was written at their suggestion and
that they mailed it for him. Judge
Seawell took the case under advise
ment and will render a decision on
Thursday.
S. H. Fullerton, the young mans
father today stated that he would
stand by his son and denounced the
arrest as a Matchmaking scheme. War
rants have been issued against the
captors, charging kidnapping.