Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-10
Mas STEWART RELATES Thrill.
LING STORY IN COUNCIL
BLUFFS COURT.
GAYS SHE WAS ABDUCTED
AND THEN ChLoROFORMEC
Puoed in Taxicab. Hair Cut From
Head and Threatened With Death -
Complaining Witness in Sensational
Trial Tells Story in Court - Two
Men Accused.

Holmes never unfolded more Inyster-
Gus tale than that related by Miss Ruth
lEtewar. the complaining Witness in
the case of the state against Leonard
Yarwood and c. d Pangbu-n in Justice
ICooper's court Saturday afternoon.
When at the conclusion q: the day the
case was adjourned until ! O'Clock next
Saturday afternoon. many in the large
audience which filled the north court
room at the county building. where the
trial was being held. wondered whether
her story. like Conan Doyle'S famous
detectives, were phanIoIns OF her i'm
agitation, or whether truth, as has Of
ten been said, Is stranger than Notion.
II true, a criminal episode that would
furnish inspiration for the pen OF a
Dnaster romancer has been enacted IN
f1fe midst OF this community. i un-
true, the accused men are the victims
Spf terrible mistake or a cruel hoax
Z, The story on which the case is based
Us briefly this: Miss Stewart alleges
that on the afternoon Of March she
AEas abducted IN a axicab from the
corner OF Thirteenth and Dodge streets
In Omaha brought to the Iowa side
p6 the Missouri river and shor1 Of her
hair besides suffering somewhat from
eough-handling on the part OF her cap
tors. Some two weeks later the
Eoutt1s. Yarwood and Pangbura. were
hrested and charged with the crime.
Their preliminary hearing was begun
Saturday afternoon before Judge Coop
er Both young men enter q general
nenial 20 all the charges.
Miss Stewards Story.
{ Miss Stewart testified thai she LEFT
her home about -: so on the day % the
alleged abduction and caught an O-I1a-
Ia car at Broadway and Eighth street
leaving it al Fourteenth and Douglas
etreets in Omaha. From -he car she
Etated that she went 70 the Rrandsis
restaurant for lunch In the B-andeis
store she met Miss Gretze-. one OF the
teachers in the Council Bluffs schools,
and held short conversation with
her.
From the Brardeis store Miss Stew
art went to the Boyd -heater. where
she witnessed a performance OF the
play. "Wildfre" and left the theaier
about 1880, going to Benefits store for
q short time. Leaving the Bennett
store she walked north on Sixteenth
street to Douglas, east to Fifteenth.
where she crossed from the south side
OF Douglas to the north side and con-
tiuued down the street TO Thirteenth,
where she turned north and walked 10
Dodge street, her intention being 20
catch Benson car and go TO the hos
pital where her father was staying
Standing on the southeast corner Of
Dodge and Thirteenth. waiting for the
street car. which was between Douglas
and Dodge she first noticed the taxi
cab coming toward her from Douglas
street. She hesitated or the curb and
the cab stopped directly in front OF
her
Miss Stewart stated that two gen
tlenen" got out OF the cab and one. the
taller Of the pair. with light hair. ac-
ccsted her. Good afternoon" said the
man. at the same time Selling her 5y-
the arm. The shorter, dark haired
man. who was wearing wonan's skirt
end hat. seized her other arm at the
same instant and the two hustled her
into the auto so quickly that she had
not recovered her presence OF uins
sufficiently to make any outcry In
deed, Miss Stewart stated that at no
time during the entire period she was
"a prisoner did she utter a word
b. Chloroformed.
! She yra phicany described tire fight
yehe had With the men IN the taxicah.
the shorter one kicking off his feminine
disguise and springing at her throat,
miss Stewart stated that she succeeded
On kicking one Of her assailants and in
return was struck a stunning blow in
fthe region OF the stomach In the
s1neanHme the other man was pouria =
1.-The contents of a small bottle on the
fGag which he Immediately placed over
Ener race and she lost consciousness
r Taken to River.
The next time she knew ANYTHING
Miss Stewart testified, she was living
hmong rocks and tall grass, so near
fhe river that she could have put her
hand into the water by extending her
arm. The tail, light haired man was
standing over her.
You put up a good fight Miss
stewart testified the light haired Alb
ductor said to her She saws he took
put a knife and she felt her hair being
pulled but was SO dazed that she did
mot realize that he was cutting off her
fresses. Dirnly she saw a man an
preaching. tho at some distance from
her. This man she claimed was Leon
ard Yarwood. 1t was the first time he
had appeared in the story as partici-
pating in the abduction. Miss Stewart
slater that she was SO dazed that she
W1S not certain as 70 all that trans
ptred between the two men after the
hair cutting episode, but she said tina,
the tall, light haired one wished to eli,
into the flesh Of her arm and break
the bone. Leonard as she referred tc
young Yarwood thru the trial, objected
to this and the matter was apparently
compromised by the man making nu.
merous slight cuts on her forehead
with his knife
Taken to House.
Miss Stewart detailed the actions al
ehe two men in replacing her in the
6xicab and taking her to a house
the whereabouts of which she could
not determine, where a woman, tall
with drug store hair" was introduced
as the mistress of the house. This WON.
m told the boys that they ought t.
take the girl home before they had &
3 corpse on their hands" and, said Mis-.
stewart, "reprimanded them sharpl,
for their actions" The victim wa.
picked up like a sack Of meal anS
thrown into the taxi with such fore,
xhat her head was bruised and he
consciousness left her. not again to re
turn until she felt herself being carrie,
20 tlss porch where her mother foun,