The New York herald., 1921-07-03
TEN ABDUCTORS OF
MRS. O'HARESEIZED
Taken to Twin Falls, Idaho,
From Montell0, New, Where
They Left Woman.
WARRANTS NOT ISSUED
Gov. Davis Gives Tart Reply
to Socialists Who Appeal
for Drastic Action.
WARRANTS NOT ISSUED

TWIN FALLS. Idaho, July 2.--Ten men
alleged by Mrs. Kate Richards O'Harc.
Socialist lecturer. to have kidnapped her
here yesterday and taken her to Mon
tello, New, were retnrnsd to TwtH Falls
tonight. but none of them was arrested.
Local authorities said no charges had
been preferred against the men here.
Mrs. O'Hare was to have given lee
ture at Pocatello. Idaho, tonight
Deputy Sheriff Bert Robinson. who
brought the men from Montello, de-
clared he had no warrant for any of
the party. He said that Mrs. O'Eare
told him she had been well treated by
her abductors.
H H. Freidhein, from whose resi-
dence Mrs. O'Hare was taken yesterday,
announced he had received a telegram
from her at Montello in which she re-
ported the arrest of the ten men, stated
that she had called on Gov. Davis OF
Idaho for protection and that charges
against her abductors would be pre-
ferred here, either by herself or her
daughter Kathleen. should her return be
delayed. 1t was learned that the latter
had gone to Pocate!lo.
Telegram to Governor.
Mrs. O'Hara's telegram to Gov Davis,
given out by his Office in Boise. said:
kidnapped from my room IN. Twin
Falls and forcedly carried to Montello,
New. Ten members of the mob now
under arrest by Marshal OF Montello.
Threatened with personal violence If I
returned to Twin Falls to prefer
charges. / demand protection to enable
me to return in safety to prefer charges.
Wire me at Pocatello whether or not l
will be protected in bringing criminals
to Justice
The Governor. who is on the way to
Seattle. directed his secretary. F. w.
Brown, by telephone. to send the follow
ing reply:
"Gov Davis out of State, but received
your wire over phone. InstTucts me to
tell you that Idaho and its peace officers
always protect citizens within the State
whose purposes are lawful. He also in
structs me to state II Is his personal
view that those who wish to rise to the
ideals of good citizenship are careful
not to be party in the exciting OF the
passions which may have the effect Of
disturbing the peace Of any community.
Sheriff E. r. Sherman and Mayor P.
w. McRoberts announced they had re-
ceived a telegram from Otto Branstetter,
executive secretary Of the National So
cialist Party, Chicago, saying: "A MIL
lion Socialist citizens are awaiting to see
You observe your oath of Office to main
tain law and order In your county. You
can prove your Americanism by the i'm
mediate arrest of the criminals, irrespec-
tive of their influence or prominence.
We demand that you do your best"
No List of Abductors.
Deputy Sheriff Robinson said he had
no list Of the men in the party and
would be unable to identify them unless
he saw them again.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-. July 2.--Kate
Richards O'IIare formerly lived in Kan
sas City. Kansas. In 1910 she ran for
Congress from the Second Kansas Con-
gressional district on the Socialist ticket
Later she went to st. Louis and edited
Socialist publication, the Buss Sac.
In the period OF the United States
participation in the war she was active
as an anti. war streetrcorner orator, and
was arreDted in South Dakota on q
charge o. making seditious utterances
was convicted Of sedition in Bismarck
and was sentenced to serve Eve years
in the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson
City.