Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 October 1901 — Page 7

BANDITS AT HOME

t)ne Does Not Have to Co to Bulgaria to Find the Class.

ABDUCTED FOR MONEY

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Tour PhiliuJi'lpliia Young: Men Kiduap a Woman and Strip Her ot Jewels and Moncv.

They Are .Now In Jail Awaiting the Action ol" the Court In I'heir Case.

Philadelphia, Oct. ?.—Charged with kidnapping a wotnnn and holding her lirlsouur for four days, robbing her of jewels worth more than S'^.UOO and compelling her to sign bank checks for large sums of money, is the story which the police unfolded here Sunday .when they announced the arrest of two newspaper men, a stenographer in another newspaper office, and a barber, all of whom arc charged with complicity in the crime. The men now locked up at the Central police station are Howard K. Sloan, an unemployed reporter. Henry Wallace, society edi tor of one of the morning papers, J. Knight Findlay of Wayne, near here stenographer in the business office of another morning paper, and Oscar S. Dunlap, a barber employed in one of the most prominent shops in the city. The victim is Mrs. Mabel Goodrich, the proprietress of an establishment on North Tenth street. The four men .were arrested Saturday night and will be given a hearing today.

Last Monday Mrs. Goodrich went to police headquarters and told a story of kidnapping and robbery so daring that the police at first doubted its truth. She said that for some time past a young man who represents himself as a resident of Germantown. had been a frequent visitor at her establishment. He was well dressed and spout money freely. Last Wednesday •week, she said, he proposed a drive through Fairmount park. He asked her to dress in her best clothes and for her to wear all her diamonds and other jewelry, because on the return from the drive he intended to take her to the finest dining room in the city, and he wanted ber to "shino" with the other women iu the place.

She accepted, and the nest day she •went out with him In a carriage with a pair of richly caparisoned horses and with a coachman on the box wearlug stylish livery. At a lonely place In Fairmount park the carriage was stopped by a man whom she said represented himself as D. Clarence Gibbon. the secretary and attorney of the Law and Order society of this city. This man. she went on to say, told her that lie had a warrant 1*9 her. arrest on the charge of keeping a disorderly house, but that the matter could be fixed up. He was invited into the carriage. and the next moment she was gagged and blindfolded. She was driven somewhere she did not know. She was kept a prisoner from Tuesday night until Friday night without anything to eat or drink, and was then taken on another long drive, blindfolded, to a house where she was kept from Friday until Monday. In the latter place the men. who were masked, stripped her of the jewelry, and at the polut of a revolver compelled her to sign bank checks for various sums of money she had deposited in the

Third National bank. They made her sign for more than she possessed, but compelled her to promise she would make up the deficiency when they released her. The men, she said, then took her on another long drive, and put her out of the carriage at Tenth and Poplar streets, about a mile from her house.

With other information the woman gave them, the detectives began to work on what, they believed to bo a fairy tale. They got several clues which led them to question J. Knight Findlay. The young man, who is only -1 years old, was charged with the crime and broke down and implicated the others. Findlay said that be had impersonated the coachman, that Sloan, the unemployed reporter, acted the part of Attorney Gibbon, that the barber played the part of the rich Germantown resident, and that ./Wallace, the society editor, had rented a house in Germantown where Mrs

Goodrich was to have been held a captive. lie told substantially the same story as that narrated "by the ,woman. Sloan, the police said, con ceived the whole plot, and it was he that got the barber into it. He had asked Dunlap to play l!he part of the rich man and get Mrs. Goodrich out doors, so that he could serve the war rant on ber for keeping a dlsor^erh house. He did not reveal the real pur pose of the scheme to the barber. All the jewelry'was recovered, most of i' having been found in the possession of Findlay and Sloan, who were wearing several of the rings. Only on check was cashed, and most of this money was also recovered.

They Had a Gun.

Marion, Ohio, Oct. 7.—While a party of society people were out hickory-nut hunting Sunday, one of the gentlemen who had a revolver proposed that all shoot at a mark. Miss Birdie Jerew In taking her turn accidentally and fatally shot Oiio Gunder, who was .trying to show her how to shoot.

RANK TltKACH Kit

Leader In Filipino Massacre Was An Officeholder. Manila, Oct. 7.—Major Morris G. Foote of the Ninth United States infantry, who has returned here from the Island of Samar, was in Balaugiga the day before the disaster to Company C. lie says that Captain Council had beeu fully warned and had taken what lie (Major Foote) considered every necessary precaution. Information that a plot was brewing among the Filipinos nunc to Major Foote from a priest, who said that it. was in the plans of the populace at both Balangiga and Hasey to at.tacii the garrisons, and that the Hasey garrison was to be attacked from a cockpit in the rear of the barracks. Orders were immediately given to demolish the cockpit, and extra guards were stationed.

There is intense feeling throughout the army because of the massacre, which would not be the case to any such extent, had It bee", the work of ordinary insurgents. The latter might have been expected to commit such an outrage. Feeling is particularly intense in military circles because the authors of the massacre were pacificos, most, of whom had taken the oath of allegiance and many of whom, including the president of Balangiga were actually holding office.

Tlie Church ami Divorce. San Francisco. Oct. 7.—The house of bishops of the Episcopal church today took up the remaining amendments to the constitution. As soon as this ques tion is disposeil of. the bishops will take up the report of the committee on marriages and divorce. The committee has reported by a vote of 11 to in favor of amending the_canon of the solemnization of matrimony, by adding the following section: "No minister shall solemnize a marriage be tweei any two persons unless, uor until by inquiry, he shall have satisfied himself thai neither person has ljcen or is the husband or the wife of any other person now living unless the former marriage was annulled by a decree of some civil court of competent jurisdiction for cause existing before such former marriage."

Funic. In a Hospital'."'

Salt Lake. Utah. Oct. 7.—.UI a lit of delirium. August Sinnel. a powerfully built. Finnish miner, who was suffering from acute erysipelas, created a panic at Holy Cross hospital Saturday by arming himself with a large knife and rushing wildly aboui the corridors threatening to murder anyone who sought to restrain him in his effort to break out of the hospital. Sinnel burst, off an inner door, jumped through a glass window, and disap pea red before the police arrived. The hospital, it is said, was the scene of wild terror for a while. No tract! of Sinnel has since beeu found.

He'd Itelier (irt All /vs.

Beloit. Wis., Oct. 7.--George J'"! Stock well, a student in the preparatory department of Beloit college, was en ticed from his room at the house of President Eaton at an early hour Sun day morning by members of another class, lie was overpowered, divested of every article of clothing and com polled to walk ahead of a score of howling students, aided by the appl cation of switches in Hie hands of his tormentors. His clothing was fuslciu to the top of a flagpole, and after he had been sufficiently "disciplined" he was allowed to go home to plan revenge.

Strange Honevnioon Trip. Atlantic City, N. .1, Oct. 7.--Captain William Andrews, the veteran mariner, left here Sunday afternoon for Europe in his 14-foot boat, the Dark Secret. Accompanying him on the daring trip is his young bride. The captain is tiO years of age and this is is said to be bis seventh trip across the ocean in small boats. f-Ie expects to reach the English cannel in about 12 weeks. In the boat were provisions for four months.

Crushed! Under a Wiitfon. Portland. Ind., Oct. 7.—Harrison Nixon, eight years old, fell under the wheels ,ol' a heavily loaded wagon driven by his father, and his head was crushed. He died in five minutes

Chinese Court Starts, -j.

Shanghai. Oct. 7.—A dispatclf froti Sian-Fu announces that the imperia oom-t has started for Kai-Fenc-Fu.

-l Farmer Shot From Ambush. Hillsboro. Ohio. Oct. !».—C. C. Pharr a farmer residing near Belfest, this couuty. was shot from ambush while entering the gate in front of his house. The ball, supposed to have been fired from a rifle, passed entirely through his body, and death is only a question of hours. No arrests have yet beeu made, bui suspicion points to a man with whom Pharr had had trouble.

Murder and Suicide.

.Savannah. Ga.. Oct. 0.—Frank Hem ingway, a musician, employed in a theater orchestra, was shot and killed yesterday by a woman known as Clara Stuart. The woman then sent a bullet through her own brain. Death was iustantaueous in both cases. Jealousy is believed to have been the cause of the tragedy.

Deadly Street Duel.

Houston, Tex., Oct. 9.—Walter Malcli and Ben Kegans engaged in a street duel- yesterday afternoon, the former being instantly killed and Kegans mortally wounded. The trouble, it is said, arose over a trivial affair.

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FOUR MEN KILLED

Disastrous Wreck (11 the Fan-Handle Near Logansport.

A ^EAR-END COLLISION

One of the 111-Fated Trainmen Is Cremated and His Companions Terribly Mutilated.

Incidents and Accidents anil Doings of Note Reported From Over Hoosierdotn.

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safe to be a day without Dr.

Thomas' Eolectric Oil in the house. Never can tell what moment an acci dent is going to happen.

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

Logausport, Ind., Oct. 7.—Four PauHatidie trainmen met an awful death near Onward, 14 miles southeast of here Sunday in a rear-end collision of freight trains, the bodies of three being taken out. badly mutilated and tin fourth being almost entirely consumed before the wreekq. crow could stibdut the tlames sufficiently to permit work in that portion of the debris. The dead are Elbert Greeley, engineer: Thomas II. Brosius. flagman: S. A. Galbrcnth, brake-man John Hutchison, fireman.

The wreck was the worst that has happened in years in this vicoinity. The trains came together with such force that the engine of the rear section and 1-1 ears and the caboose attached to the engine of the forward section, which composed the train, were demolished. The train was running in three sections, the first section reaching this city on time. At the point of the accident, however, the engine of the second section went dead and a brakeman was sent back to Hag the third section which was following close behind. The brakeman was a green man, and, instead of using the torpedo, attempted to flag the train with his lantern, but the morning being extremely foggy, the signal was not seen and the third section crashed full speed into the rear of the second section,. "When the engine struck the caboose it reared up. turned a complete sommersault and lauded on its top in the ditch. The 14 cars ot the train several of them refrigerator cars, were piled on top of fthe engine and caboose and the wreckage took fire from the overturned engine.

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Long Drawn Litiiration Now Iu Supreme Court. Indianapolis, Oct. 7.—Tlie transcript of the appeal taken by tlie Vaudalia Railroad company from a judgment recovered against it by Former At torney General Ketchum in the Marion superior court about a year ago, lias been filed in the office of tlie clerk of the supreme court. The amount de manded from the railroad was 500.000, but Judge Carter's judgment based on the findings of Special Master Noble C. Butler, was for only $1)13, 005.01. The case is one that in various forms has been in litigation in Indian!: for many years. It grew out of claim that the Vandalia Itailroad company had never effected a complete settlement with the state on account of the per cent of Us earnings, which it was bound to pay the state after its net earnings had reached a certain figure, under the old special charter which was surrendered in 1873. The attorneys for the railroad company pleaded in the superior court that the same matter had been adjudicated by the supreme court years ago, but tlie contention was not allowed by Judge

Brave Lads.

Kokomo, Ind.,Oct. 7.—Two boys, aged 7 aud 9 years, sous of Jacob Goodwine, two miles east of here, proved themselves heroes Sunday by capturing a gang of six burly tramps and saving a burning schoolliouse that the tramps had set on lire. With buckets they carried water from the pump, and, after saving the structure, one mounted a horse without saddle or bridle, aud rode into town for the officers, who jailed the incendiaries. The other lad stood guard with an airgun over the gang.

Thresher's Horrible Death. Columbia City, Ind., Oct. 7. — Ervin Kneller, who was assisting in threshing oats on the farm of Jacob Schrader, about three miles south of Columbia City, slipped and fell into the mouth of the machine and was so badly mangled that he died a few hours later.

Woman Fatalty Burned. Sullivan, Ind., Oct. 7. — While Mrs. Clara Bates was washing carpet in the yard her clothing caught fire and was entirely burned from her body. Her injuries are fatal. She is a wife of Earl Bates, a farmer living about four miles east of Carlisle.

Aged Man's Suicide.

Corydon, Ind., Oct. 7. — Jacob H. Bruner, an aged citizen of Scott township, committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a shotgun. Despondency, caused by sickness, is the reason assigned by his family for the act.

Buck Wheeler on Trial.

Evansville, Ind., Oct. 7. — The case of Buck Wheeler, who killed his son-in-law, Elias Burns, is being tried at Boonville. Tlie defense will plead insanity. Wheeler's divorced wife was on the stand several hours.

A BIG CHO lli

Foi« Thousand Voices Aitl Episcopal .(it Missionary Cause. San Francisco, Oct. 1).—The feature of the day's sessions of the triennial Episcopal convention was the reconsideration and defeat of what is known as the Huntington amendment to the constitution, which was adopted by the_hou.se of deputies Monday providing for the use of modified forms of worship by congregations willing to accept the spiritual oversight of a bishop.

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stitutional amemltncut, which hail previously been passed over by both bouses, was taken up by the house of deputies anil defeated after a brief debute. It provided for several changes iu the manner of creating new dioceses. After disposing of much routine busi ness the house of bishops took up the subject of marriage and divorce. It is not expected that a vote will be t'CiM'h ed for several days.

A general missionary mass meeting was held at. the mechanics' pa\i!i.n last night. The attendance was osti mated at 10,000. The music was pro vided by a vested choir of 4,000 men and boys. All of the speakers urged the importance of renewed zeal in advancing the cause of the church in foreign lands.

NO UOIJNTIKS COMING

Treasury Department. Sets at Ke.st Widespread Canard. Washington, Oct. 0.—Both the treasury department and the department of justice are being flooded with inquiries concerning the alleged discovery by a lawyer in Brooklyn of some old laws granting $84 state and $192 federal bounties to soldiers for services in the recent Spanish-American war. This statement, together with one that several thousands of cases are pending now bcforc'the attorney general of the

United States, which are to be decided in favor of the claimants within a few days, have been disseminated widely. The statements are not true. No such cases are pending before the attorney general for his action or decision. Congress passed no laws granting any bounties whatever to soldiers In the Spanish-American war. Extra pay was granted to soldiers in certain circumstances, but in nearly all such cases those entitled to extra pay have received it.

Death Kroni Shock.

Shelbyville, Ivy., Oct. 9.-Mrs. Beu C. Perkins, wife of the jailer at this place, is dead as the result of shock and fright suffered last Wednesday morning when a mob attacked the jail and lynched two negroes. At thai time Mrs. Perkins was ill with a nervous attack, and Dr. W. F. Baird, her physician, declares that the raid ot the lynchers is responsible for the woman's death.

Cause ol' Paralysis.

Berlin. Oct. 9.—The German press, referring to the dispatches from Washington giving alleged information as to the new treaty between the United States and Great Britain regarding the Nicaragnan canal, point out that Great Britain's renunciation of her rights under tlie Clayton-Bulwer treaty without compensation is a plain Illustration of the paralysis produced bv the war in South Africa.

Deadly I-iive Wire.

Houghton. Mich., Oct. 9— Dr. Alex Mcltac of the Centennial mine was found dead iu the basement of his house last evening by it member of his family. The only thing that would indicate 1 ho cause of death was a slight burn on one of his hands, as if from an electric wire.

Highbinder Meets Dnath. Cleveland, O., Oct. I).—Sing Ki, a Chinese restaurant keeper on lCrie street, was found dead in his room last night with his head almost severed from his body. A brother of the inur dered man says his brother was member of the Highbinder society No arrests have yet been made.

Admiral Schley's Ket.ireiiient. Washington, Oct. !).—Rear Admiral W. S. Schley ended his active career in the navy yesterday, as today he goes on the retired list by operation of law on account of age. llis retirement .will have no effect whatever upon the court of inquiry.

Oil Fuel at Snffar Koflnories. Seven of the largest sugar refineries on Bayou Teche, in St. Mary parish, decided to discontinue the use of coal in the manufacture of sugar and sent to New Orleans an agent to contract for the erection of the necessary oil tanks. They will use Texas oil in future in manufacturing and refining sugar. Among the refineries in St. Mary that have already decided to abandon coal for oil are the Lafayette, Segura, Adlene and Raceland, with the Bourgeuerles, Patterson, and MoBride & Nicholls sugar houses. These refineries use $150,000 worth of coal annually. It will cost $35,000 to adapt their furnaces for the use of oil instead, but it Is estimated that less than $50,000 worth of fuel oil will do the work of $150,000 worth of coal. It is thought that one-third of the Louisiana sugar plantations will use oil instead of coal this year. The number would be larger but for the fact that the plantations had made their contracts for coal for the season, before the full value of Texas oil was shown. It is probable that by next season all the sugar plantations in Louisiana will be using oil instead of coal.

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OFFICE—Joel Block. S. Wash. St.

Residence—Home 'Phono 664 [Office 618 Calls answered promptly day or night.

G. W. BURTON.

Attomey-at-Law, Crawfordsville, Ind.

Office—Over Mat Kline's Jewelry Store, Main St

C. E. Ftfllenwlder,

Successor to E. T. Murphy ft Co.

Real Estate, Loan, Rental and Insurance Agent.

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I have what you want—call or address me at Room 4, Campbell Building. 'Phone 408.

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Your Watch Repaired.

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W. P. BURKETT

(Jrojwfordsrille Watch Hospital.

Money to Loan

We have accepted the agency ol Loan Company, and have plenty of money to loan on three, five or ten years' time, at4 and 5 per cent. Interest, with privilege of payieg 1100 or any multiple at any lntorest.payment. Parlies wanting to borrow nibney should see us before making llnal arrangements. We also represent some of tho best Life, Accident, and Kire Insurance companies. Farm loans and Abstracts of Title a specialty.

MORGAN & LEE.

OQlceln Orribaun Hlk., west of Court Uouwo. Crawfordsvllle, Ind.

ImmoiiKe Stoel Floating Dock. Tho immense steel floating dock to be located at Algiers, in the state of Louisiana, which was built at Sparrows Point, Mil., by the Merian Steei company, is practically completed. It Is tho largest floating dry dock in tha world. Over 13,000,000 pounds of steal have bqen used in its construction.

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We are sure to please and fit you, and we^ask you to give us a call.

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George W. Scaggs' Cash Grocery

Money To L,oott.

I am now prepared to imalie loans in sums of •10 to 110,000, and on the most favorable terms. Chuttle and personal security accepted on small amounts. All Inquiries cheerfully answered.

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F. A. Dennis, Physician and Surgeon.

^enlto-Urlnary and Rectal Diseases a Specialty. Office In Thomas Block—East Main Street—.

Home 'Phone 894.

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60 Warren St, New York.

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113 S juth Washington Street GEO. F. HUGHES, Mgr.

r^'^bept Music and all kinds rt Musical Moro!iandl ,uan be obtained at ov.r store at reasonable .ices.