Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-05-02 | Page 1 | Girl Kidnaper Wins Ground over Parent

GIRL KIDNAPER WINS INS GROUND OVER PARENT Abductor Ready to toBe toBe toBe Be Punished If Child Gets Care MIDDLEBURY Vt May 2 By U. U P. P P. Earl Earl Woodward ax ex convict convict t charged with year old Lucille Chatterton ton of Gra Granville to today today to to- day pleaded not guilty to a formal charge of He was held in bonds which he could not meet and was remanded to the county jail for a hearing May 3 Lucille Chatterton who was placed in the home of a deputy sheriff sheriff sher slier iff here yesterday was expected to enter school for the rest of the spring term MIDDLEBURY Vt May 2 By U. U P. P Earl P.-Earl Earl Woodward protested today that he cared for only one thing thing the the future welfare of Lucille Lucille Lu Lu- cille Chatterton 11 11 with whom he was captured a at t dawn yesterday by bya a posse after six days' days search The alleged abductor of ot little Lucille to today today today to- to day was to bc le arraigned in court but he brushed the charges aside side and said They can send me mo me to Jail if It they want to I will be atis- atis fied fled If they give Lucille Chatterton a good home and a chance to study The girl who says she fled with Woodward a week ago yesterday to escape the of or her father Walter Valter Chatterton spent last night here at the home of the warden of the county jail Physician examIned examined exam exam- ined med her and announced she apparently apparently apparently had not suffered In any way in her six days of life Ufe with Woodward Woodward Wood Wood- ward during which her alleged abductor abductor abductor ab ab- ab- ab ductor fed her from supplies of food he was able to steal and sheltered her in the woods or In abandoned barns Public sympathy which two days dars ago was overwhelmingly o with Lucille's Lucille's Lu- Lu cilles cille's father In his declaration that he proposed to shoot Woodward on sight today was plainly swinging towards Woodward The girls girl's story of ot her r fear of ot her father fathel anc and Woodwards Woodward's charges chares that she was badly treated at her home were gaining attention Today Today Today To To- day there seemed to be no show of ot towards the man who up to the moment of or his capture posses planned to shoot and on whose head a price had been placed placed del deU or alive olive When he ho appears In court today Woodward will plead to charge of which most observers believe will be reduced d to some less serious indictment There was talk that he hc might plead guilty and receive a suspended sentence The penalty penally for fOI Is twenty years in prison nut out the tho publIc public pub pub- lic lie seems agreed that no such punishment punIshment punishment pun pun- Is required require