The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-19
George Won Eiff's Friends Play
a Cruel Joke.
Kidnap Him From His Young
Wife's Side.
HE FIGHTS MANFULLY
But Is Overpowered and Carried
Away.
Bride Faints and Is in a Crit.
ical Condition.

New York. April 1s.-The happiese
man in Brooklyn at 1 O'Clock yester
day morning was George Won Eh'
who sat in a taxicab with MS arm
around the former Miss Ida WHIT
taker of No. los, East Tenth street,
whom he had married at her parents
home five hours before and wnom NJ
was taking swiftly to the new dovecols
he had made for her at No. 5611 Tnir-
teenth avenue.
And the maddest man in Greater
New York was Won Elm nve mlnutes
his taxicab OF the corner OF fry
sixth street and Sixteenth avenue.
hustled him from the arms OF MS WIZ
and spirited HIN, away in another tan-
cab to Hicksville, L. l.. leaving INC
bride deserted and alone.
The men who did the kidnapping OF
the bridegroom were friends OF mis-
who thought 1t was a joke: But tney
reckoned without the ieeHhgs r,ons
1s-year-old wife who is in serious
condition as a result of the Ill timeu
TEST and they reckoned also wftnoun
consideration of the irate br1degroons
| pugilistic accomplishments.
Flashed Bogus Revolvers.
The taxicab, with the bride and bride
proou within it, had almost reacneo its
destination when the two 5okesters
sprang out from the cover or eeconu
cab standing at the corner OF tne
streets. They wore nanoxelcn,es ar,r ssce.
land each one of them carried bogus
revolver in his hand.
! 1--WE want you.' they said TO Won
Eff when they had thrown open .no
ttaxi door and had covered MIN WIN
their pistols. Come on. get out, ana
don't make any trouble or Wen MI you
full of lead"
Won Eff, thinking them highwaymen.
tsnrang out and began to fight them then
land there. His wife fell back in hair
faint on the cushions of the cab II
ltook the two friends five minutes TO
ldrag the bridegroom into their waiting
vehicle. ten feet away. But they hnal-
tlv got him inside and gave orders to
Won Eiff's chauffeur to take the young
woman to her new home
Fell Into Hysteria.
Young Mrs. Won Eff recovered on
the way She began telephonlns iran
ttically FOR aid TO her husband as soon
as she reached a drug store. After
she returned to the taxi, she fell into
Ihysteria, jumped from the CAP, iost
her way to the fiat, and after cropping
about pitifully for an hour, had TO De
carried to the house. where friends
put her to bed and cared for her with
doctors aid until morning
Meanwhile her husband was fight
ling every. inch of the way as the TAX
licab journeyed toward Hicksville. He
tore off the masks of the men who
held him and broke window of the
cab in his struggle to get free. But
= his joking kidnappers were one too
many and they landed him in Hicks
n Vile. exhausted and with his clothes
S half torn off.
e BIames Two Friends.
q There they kept him until after
't O'Clock in the morning, and II was al
ter ii when he finally got back to No
5617 Thirteenth avenue, TO ma ms
g bride still hysterical ard so III from
e the shock that half a dozen neighbor'
could not quiet her.
The groom also was nearly a wrecl
from his fstic exertions. He told re
porters later that the two kidnaper'
were George A. Treandly and Johr
Donnelly. both residents of I'M
r neighborhood He had counted botf
men his friends.
On this account he said, he wouls
20 not make a police charge against then
y, unless his wife's illness became yer.
IN serious But he declared he woul'
- never speak to them again, and he re
. | fused to accept their belated apoiogle
ls for the i1l-timed jest