Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-01
SHELDON MISS WHO WAS HELD
CAPTIVE IN OMAHA IN cRlTl.
CAL CONDITION.
SECOND MAN IN CASE
ELUpEs POLICE PURSUIT
Girl Wont to Omaha to Learn TsIsg.
raphy and Fell Into Power Of Two
Railroad EmpIoyss-HotsI Manage.
mont Processes Ignorance Of Mis-.
treatment.


held a prisoner in a room at the Mil
lard hotel for more than two weeks,
denied sufficient clothing and food and
! beaten, assaulted and subjected to in
ing at the hotel, Miss Ryllis Kinzie.
aged II, of Sheldon, Iowa, is now a
mental and physical wreck. The girl,
unable to be moved to a hospital, is
confined in room S64 OF the hotel, and
DR.. T. T. Harris, chief police surgeon.
says her condition is critical.
Philip n. Edgett, former dining
car conductor in the service of the TN
! ion Pacific railroad, and asserted by
the girl to have been one of her as
sallants, is under arrest at the CITY
Jail. He first gave the name OF John
FRANKLIN. He has refused to talk of the
affair. The other man, alleged by the
girl to be her captor, is alleged to be
Frank Potter, a former auditor in the
Union Pacific dining car department.
He is said to have left the city. His
arrest is ordered wherever found on
the strength Of a statutory charge
drawn up against him by County At
torney English yesterday. Both Edgett
and Potter were released by the Union
| Pacific week ago.
Story az Told by Guests.
The exact circumstances Of the
forced detention of Miss Kinzie are
largely nnr-!ntah!e. The story Of the
affair, in part, as told by resident Of
the hotel, Is as follows:
'.Tho pirl "a mo fo hotel Yon q
and was given room No. 1873. From
what she told me, 1 understand she
left her home in Sheldon, Iowa, to
ion telegraph office. Potter occupied
| room No. 121 and in order to reach the
elevator, the girl had to pass his door.
Ny understanding is that he ORA gged her
into his room as she was passing and
there held her captive. The hotel peo-
pie tried to collect rental on her room
and took her clothing from her as Sc
| curity learned Of this transaction last
week and secured her clothes for her,
by paying her room rent myself
knowledge of the girls plight
reached the hotel management last
week and Potter was ordered out Of
the hotel. But he continued to visit
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him in the corridor and could not re-
frain from knocking him down.
"The girl was then placed in one of
the. servants rooms and attended by
DR.. Waggoner. the house physician. I
do not think the matter was reported
to the police at the time.
when the girl first came here I had
occasion to notice her on several occa-
sions and she appeared to me to be
most refined and altogether innocent.
She wouldn't look sideways at man"
Hotel Manager Ignorant.
= w. D. Clark. manager Of the Willard
hotel, states emphatically that he knew
nothing of any forcible detention of the
girl and has IN entirely different view
Of the matter. He gave this state
ment:
This girl came to the hotel two
weeks or ten days ago. She registered
and paid her bills and seemed to be
lady. After several days. however, her
actions became rather suspicious, and
thinking all might not be right, told
Mr.. Vail, the chief clerk, to order her
out. He did so and she paid her bill
and said she would leave at once. Then
she disappeared and I supposed she
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the room she had occupied. We packed
them up and put them away for her
until she should call for them.
Then a day or two later. we found
her in Frank Potter's room. We started
to get after Potter. but by the time
got around to it, he had paid his bill
and left. In the meantime. the girl
left Potter's room, and we discovered
she had taken up her quarters again
in her old room and that she was very
i'll. We put her in one Of the en-
ployes' rooms and did what we could
for her and called in DR.. Waggoner
Then DR.. Harris came into the case.
don't know who called him.
II knew absolutely nothing Of any
forcible detention of the girl and sup
posed until she became rather loud
that she was all right. and that was
when we ordered her out. It goes with
out saying that had we known any
thing of the sort was going on, we