Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-03-18
LOUIS PATMONT
UNDER ARREST
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anti -Prohibitionists because of his
platform work.
prosecutor Guild kept. informed OF
Patmcnts movements through the
newspapermen. The evangelist"
wrote several letters to the local pa
pers telling how he would come back
and vIndicate himself. Within a
short time after Patmont got into
Newark from Denver last Saturday,
Detective SIutzky was on his trail.
One of Patmont's first actions was
to 90 to the neighborhood or his
wife's home at 424 South Be mont
avenue and walt until her sister
passed along. He stopped her and
handed her a note stating that "Rutn
is III. She asks for her mother. Why
don't YOU write" Ruth Is one of
Patmont's two children, one six years
old, the other four, who are said tt
be living with his parents in Milwau-
kee at present.
Slutzky learned that Patmont had
been seen In Newton street in the
neighborhood of the house he is also
said to have burned-at No. GLAND
he waited there for an hour or moro
on Monday. Finally he investigated
and found. II is said, that the min
lister had gotten out rear window
and had dropped his glasses In doing
80. A boy was seen picking up the
glasses.
A number of churches, where II
was thought likely Patmont might
appear on Sunday were covered by
detectives, but without result. Mon
day morning the newspapers learned
that Patmont was in town and re-
ceived telephone calls that he would
soon go up to the prosecutors office
Patmont denied yesterday that he
had called up the newspapers.
Prosecutor Guild fixed the amount
of the bail required from Patmont.
Acting Assistant Prosecutor William
x. Flanagan took his plea before
Judge Austen III. Swackhamer, in the
Court OF Quarter Sessions
Patmont was accompanied by his
counsel, Assemblyman Edward
Schoen, who requested that an early
date be set for the trial. He was
disappointed when he learned that II
would be at least a month before the
case is reached. A friend of Pat
mont's. who was with him when he
| was arrested and who is said to be q
missionary preacher from New York,
was also with him In court.
Born In Poland.
FdtHiOHt was poIH III lIUuof EOidHui
In 1884 and came to this country at
the age of twenty-one. He became
a home missionary for the Disciples
Churth and has worked In many
places where there 10 a large Polish
population. He moved frequently
and lately has been conducting q
Polish paper in Milwaukee,. He has
| been also a constant contributor to
the Christian Standard In Cincln-
natl. What purports to be Patmont's
own story of his kidnapping In
Illinois. told to the editor of the
| Standard, was reproduced In the
yindicator, a Franklin, Pa, Pro-
| hibition organ, In its issue Of june
| 10 last. In this story many melo-
| dramatic thrill s which so far have
escaped the imaginative efforts of this
motion picture impressarios figure al
mere incidents.
This narrative tells about his work
ing for prohibition In Westviile Ill.
a suburb of Danville, and being
| warned to get away smooth" HI
refused to do so. the story goes, anf
| Blckel minister of the First Church
in Danville, and was promised {
helper for the next day. The helper
reported bright and early but II wal
too late. Mr.. Patmont disappeared
at the tracks of the Big -Four roae
the night before, The story of th'
intervening time--fifty-two days-il
now available"
The story then relates how Pat
mont was confronted by four robus
men who sandbagged him, bound him
thrust him on a section mems car AM
went a ways up the railroad to
waiting automobile. His abductor
Iwere Americans, but Italians re
D aced them when the change from
handcar to motor car was made an
i he was tied in a new way
He was taken to lonely building
put In a dark. windowless cellar an
kept fifty-two days. Now and the
bananas and sandwiches were throw
down to him, but when he made out
cry hot water was poured on hiI
and now and then shots we're fire
into the cellar for good measure, III
knew not night or day and all tn
time was without she3s. and ha