Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1911 — FORMER RENSSELAER BOY KIDNAPED IN OHIO. [ARTICLE]

FORMER RENSSELAER BOY KIDNAPED IN OHIO.

No Ransom was Asked, Bat He Was Kept All Night from His BrideMarriage Prank of Friends. The Times-Recorder, of Zanesville, Ohio, makes a big front page special of the kidnaping three hours after his marriage of Charles G. Wiltshire, formerly of Rensselaer and now successfully engaged in the brokerage business at Zanesville. The paper prints the following: Three hours after his marriage Thursday evening, Charles G. Wiltshire was taken captive at the home of the bride's parents, handcuffed, thrown into a taxi-cab and driven through the streets and finally made a prisoner in his room-over the Old Citizens National bank for the night. He was kept handcuffed and closely guarded and all precautions taken to prevent his escape. The prank was arranged by his married male friends to repay him for the embarrassment they claim to have suffered because of his originality in arranging pranks after they had faced the minister. The ceremony uniting Miss Helen Roeseler to Charles G. Wiltshire was performed at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roessler, Homewood avenue, at 7 o’clock Thursday evening. It had been announced the ceremony was to be performed in Greenville, Ohio, but Rev. Mr. Perry, of Greenville, came here to perform the ceremony. At 10 o’clock a party of 10 friends arrived at the Roessler home to congratulate the young couple ant} while the hands of the groom were clasped in a friendly shake a pair of handcuffs were placed about his wrists and he was taken captive and hurried to an automobile half a block away. The machine was decorated with neatly painted banners “Just married." “We got him,” the signs on either side of the car read. The unfortunate groom was hauled up and down Main street several times and at 11 o’clock he was made a prisoner in his room. At the same hour the bride was handed a letter of explanation. Wiltshire was kept a prisoner in the room all night and was guarded by ten friends, leaders in the “kidnaping.” Some of the leaders were said to be Frank Roessler, “Davy” Jones and Clint Ydhn. Jones claimed to have “suffered” some few years ago. ■ -