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Show YOUNG GIRL, ABDUCTED, SHIELDS HER BETRHYEEi CHICAGO, Maxell 25. A girl, supposed sup-posed to have been abducted, was found yesterday where she had been hidden by the wife of the alleged abductor. ab-ductor. Both wife and young girl profess pro-fess to lore the man, and will make every effort to shield him from punishment. pun-ishment. The girl Is flfteen-years-old Goldie May Walters, for whom the police had been searching since March 14. She was thought to have been abducted by friends or John H. Clark, who is in jail on charges brought by the girl's mother. 8he was found in Mrs. William Will-iam McKenzie's flat, 587. Oakley avenue, ave-nue, by detectives. Mrs. Clark, wife of the man in jail, is under arrest at' the station on a charge of abduction, and he police arrested Thomas E. Lynch, a civil engineer and a friend of Clark, on a similar charge last night. I Mrs. McKenzie is a-friend of Mrs. Jennie A. Kieft, the mother of Mrs. Clark, and the police say it , was through the agency of Mrs. "Clark and Mrs. Kieft and Lynch that the girl had been kept in hiding. In spite of the fact that the girl, by her own admission, admis-sion, had been the means of alienating the affections of Clark from his wife, Mrs. Clark befriended her, and both of them are endeavoring to shield the man. Mrs. Clark is 20 years old and the mother of a three-year-old boy. Both she and the Walters girl still profess pro-fess love for Clark. 1 I The fugitive girl, told her captors That she did not regret, leaving her home and her parents, who were nearly prostrated by her absence, and that she had no intention of returning home so long as her absence would save Clark from punishment. She said she had not ,been taken away forcibly, but that her abduction was the result : of a plan worked out by herself, the execution of which was brought about by Lynch and Mrs. Clark at her request. , |