The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-14
ST|LLWELL IS
BOUND OVER
Valves Examination Before
the Justice.
HEARING LARGELY attended
Local Friends are With the
Detective.
The Wyandot County Grand Jury VIII
Consider the Case ut An Early Date.
Whereabouts of Mrs. Perdue Is Not
Known.

In the court of Justice Carter at
Upper Sandusky Friday afternoon,
Wilburt E. Stlilwell, the detective for
the Law and order League in this city,
who is charged with kidnapping the
two year-old daughter OF Taylor Per-
due at Upper Sandusky IN 1887, waived
examination and was bound over to
the grand jury. A bond of $500 was
required and this was promptly fur
nished by John w. Clark of this city
and w. A. Crum of Upper .Sandusky
Stillwe.l came to this city Friday
evening.
Early Friday afternoon at Upper
Sandusky the probate court room in
which the trial was held, was crowded
to its capacity Stillwell is well known
among the people of Upper Sandusky
and vicinity and many OF his friends
were there to witness the progress OF
the trial which has aroused unusual
interest. John H. Clark, OF this city,
was the attorney for Stillwell while
A. e. Walton, of Upper Sandusky rep
resented Perdue.
Walton, acting for his client, asked
that the affidavit filed against Still
well be changed in order that II might
include not only thee hid but the wife
OF Mr.. Perdue. He declared that the
two-y -year-old child at the time of the
kidnapping was unable to know wheth-
er 1t was being kidnapped or not and
that the two should be included in the
affidavit Walton stated he could
prove that Stillwell decoyed the wife
and, with this proved it was an easy
matter TO show that the child was laso
removed from the parents home. At
torney Clark stated that IL was not
proper that the charges be Joined in
one indictment. He questioned why
these changes should be asked by the
prosecution at the last moment when
there was a plenty of time to adjust
these matters previously. Justice Car
ter held that making two counts
would not be proper but stated testi-
mony relating to the disappearance Of
the wife would be allowed to be in
troduced without amending the afii-
davit.
Walton in presenting the case told
Stillwell bringing the wife and little
daughter, Tillie, to Upper Sandusky,
whence they were driven to Fostoria
by the late Myron Worrello. He de-
clared that Stiilwell had admitted
these facts less then one month ago.
He declared that Perude had gone to
Missouri in 1881 to buy some land
and that when he left his wife and
two daughters on that evening was
the last he had seen of them and
that he does not yet know OF their
whereabouts. Stillwell was at one time
employed at the Perude farm.
Examination was waived by the de-
fense and little was said regarding
the matter. Local persons, however,
who think the charges against Still
well are absurd, that party other than
Stillwell transferred the wife and child
to the depot at Upper Sanduslty with
their own consent and that little can
be made out of this in the form of q
charge against the detective. They
say that Perdue was a worthless sort
and was sold out by his creditors anC
that his wife having some money was
determined that he should not squan'
der it as he had his own possessions
The matter will come before the
grand jury within the next month i
is possible that Mrs. Perdue's where
abouts will be learned and that sh,
may be brought here In the case. s,
far Stillwell has refused to state he
location saying that he had pledged
her never TO reveal this.