The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-30
K THE EVENING STARS TWO PAGE MAGAZINE
She AhdMctloN and Rescue
q 5remoNA 0\der
BY WILL IRWIN.

In the April American Magazine win irwin reports the various abduc-
posed in San Francisco by enemies of the graf prosecution in their frantic
whch The author tells;
x<Y T HAD long been the desire of the defense to get rid If Fremont Older
he is the militant journalist who opened fire on the Ruef govern
= .ment and who las led the fight journansjcahy, yer since-so thy
swore out a complaint charging Older with criminal libel in Los Angeles
Late The next afternoon Older was sitting in Heneys office in San Fran
cisco, talking with Charles w, Cobb, Heneys aw partner 1t happened th-s
Mrs. Mrs. Older weret ogve a dinner that night IN the Cafe Francisco u
some friends Suddenly Older was called up 81 the telephone ne ma
at the. other end, who refused to give his name said that he had information
away said the voice, T will meet you I'm the hotel at Van Ness avenue and
Ellis Older repeated thu conversation to Cobb 1T may be a Job he said.
As Older turned. the corner of Geary street into a Ness avenue W u
tonobnes drew up beside hin. From the foremost jumped W Los Angeles
deputies who presented a warrant for his arrest on TIT criminal libel charge.
Issued. in Los Angeles county, it vas counterasned by Judge Carroll Cook,
m IL Judge Cook then he said I will give bans The deputies pretending to
agree took Older into heir automobile n started west The other automobile
when they had gone a FEY blocks Older called forciole attention to the
house, replied the deputies. Older ddn not know whereJu Id Cook lived; and
he contented himself with that Only when he say that they had gone be-
yond the residence district and were entering Golden Gate Park ddh er realize
that this was an abduction. He jumped up and protested fociby; the deputy
who rode beside him thrust a revolver against his chest and ordered him TO
The W. automobiles turned into the Mission road, which leads south from
San Francisco, an ran al tor speed to Redwood City, twenty-five miles south
and a stopping station for the limited train to Ls Angeles There they lay
in a quiet country road and waited for the train When it arrived they hurried
their man into a drawingroom compartment.
When Older failed to return within a half an hour, Cobb notified Eeney
n went Up to the hotel in Van Ness avenue. Older had lot been there
1t the Cafe Francisco. They found Hrs. Older In a tat OF fightful anxiety
The dinner company tried to reassure nr,w while tn detectives secured thu city
for a race of her husband. Hn t1 :E@..
"The kidnapping Of Older would have gone of according to program If
Ashe the clustering railroad attorney whose speciality Is investigating jurks
ot no the bodv of the train and was overheard telling an acquaintance
boast dropped of att the next station and sem a telegram to the San Fran
"At II o'clock that night he anxious party al the San Francisco cafe
separated. and al midnight Heneys office learned from Ernest S. Simpson,
managing editor of the Call, whereo Older as. They worked the wires to
Santa Barbara, half way down the coast to Los Angeles, got attorneys and
judges tut of bed and had them prepare habeas corpus papers The police
of Santa Barbara broke in the door Il the compartment at Z o'clock next
and rescued Older"