The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-18
Or. 7. c. WadswOrth Attempts
to Shoot Alleged Seducer
of Daughter.
PREVENTED FROM DOING SO
BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE
A. f. FinkeIl Has Exceedingly
Close Call at the Police
Station.

Enraged beyond endurance by the
sneerng silence of A +. Finkell, whom
he believed had outraged his daughter,
DR.. j. G. Wadswortb of Morgan City,
Utah, attempted TO shoot Finkell in the
police station Friday afternoon. Chief
of Police Barlow snatchcd the revolver
out OF the hand of DR.. Wadsworth and
few moments later took a knife away
from the enraged and grief-strickon ia
ther and prevented him from attacking
Finkell rs he was led away to cell in
the city jail. The girl WAS located Fri
day night and left with her father for
Morgan City.
The attempted shooting was the Sc
ouel of a search for the daughter. IL
years of age. whom the father believes
has been led astray; the enragcd feel
ings of the aged and heartbroken par
emf, and the fruitless search in this
city by c. L. Hcxsou, the glrl's iance,
who for the last few days has been car
rying marriage license In his pocket,
while looking for his intended wife,
VINO mas disappeared
According to tine story told the police
by the father of the girl, pretty Jewel
Wadsworth came TO this city about two
months ago to visit her married sisters
Mrs. Nora Eddington, residing at 413
South West Temple street, wife OF j.
Eddington, n brother of Deputy Sheriff
Dick Eddington, and Mrs. Clarke. AS
far as the father or the sisters knew. the
girl was enjoying life in~. the city,
and on Wednesday accompanied G, E.
HeXson and obtained license 10 we'd
shortly afterward she was met by Fin
Kcll. VINO. according TO HeXson, seemed
to exert some powerful influence over
the girl.
Girl Disappears.
When the girl failed to put in an ap-
pcarancc at the home of her sister the
relatives became alarmed and Hexson
reported the matter TO the police. Fin
kcll WAS located in the st. Cecile hotel, |
233 South State street, and the girl
was said to have been seen in his COM
pany just before he entered the hotel. |
Word was Immediately sent TO the ia
thcr In Morgan City, and upon his ar
rival in this city Finkel was arrested !
in the ST. Cccile by Detectives Gold |
ing and Wilson and taken TO the sta |
tion.
Fnkcll was confronted by The father.
the sister, her husband. Hexson, Chief |
Of Police Barlow, Chief of Detectives
Sheets and the detectives who made the |
arrest, and was asked to tell the whore |
fused to do so. Immediately and before |
tho police could interfere, the sister
sprang upon him and attempted to
scratch out his eyes In an almost hys |
terical condition she was assisted to a |
chair and Chief of Detectives Sheets
again requested Finkell to tell of the |
whereabouts. Finkell smiled and re-
him before the desk sergeant for the
purpose of booking him and placing
him in Jail.
Finkell's Close Call.
Dr. Wadsworth trembling with sup.
pressed rage, followed Finkel TO the
desk sergeant g room and was followed |
in turn by Chief Of Police Barlow, who |
was watching the father closely. When |
the trio composed of the father, Chief
Sheets and Fipkell, reached the desk
sergeant g room, DIR. Wadsworth caught |
Finkell by the throat. forced him
against the wire cage Of the desk, and |
in a voice almost inarticuate with rage
A1l grief gasped:
osWhcre IS my daughter, you cur.
s5ID mc,'
At the same moment the frenzied |
pnrent drew a revolver and was level
ing it mt Finkell when it WAS torn from
his grasp by Chief Of Police Barlow,
who stepped into the room Just behind |
him. DR.. Wadsworth seemed to regain
his composure and stepped back But |
when no one was looking he drew from
his pocket long bladcd pocket knife
which was also taken from him before
he could attack FinkelI, who was eager
TO be locked up.
Finkell still refused to tell the
whereabouts of the missing girl. but the
police discovered clues to her where
abouts through the attorney employed |
by FinkeIl.
Denials Are Made.
Friday night the girl was taken to the
station by the attorney, and before the
officials, she said that she had never
had anything to do with Finkell, ex-
cept to request him to help her to escape
from Hexson, whom she said was bound |
10 marry her Finkell said that he had |
come TO the city from Spokane with
Charles Reese, a ieweler, and that both
had run a photographer IS establishment
on State street and on Main street, and
+. t. Harris. in the advertising busi.
ness. with offices 428 D. +. Walker
building. Finkell was released upon $50
bail. =. r. Willis, arrested on suspicion
Of being implicated in the disappear
ance of the girl, also was released upon
$50 bail,
Finkell s attorney brought the oppos
ing factions together, and after a
lengthy conversation. in which cxplana-
tions were made by both sides, DR..
Wadsworth and all of the relatives left
the police station. DR. Wadsworth and
the daughter, Jewel, left later for their
home in Morgan City.