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Show DIPLOMAT ARRESTED Panama Legation At- tacheAbducts Girl Forfeits Bond New York, Sept 9. Harry E. Nolan, No-lan, of Washington, D. C, recently appointed secretary to the United States legation at PanamaJ failed to appear in police court today to plead to a charge of abducting 16-year-old Marlon McVIcker of Newport News, Va. His cash ball of ?1,000 wab ordered or-dered forfeited and two detectives were sent to arrest him After declaring the 51,000 bail forfeited, for-feited, the court fixed ball at ?2,500 for Nolan when arrested and paroled the McVIcker girl In the custody of the Florence Crittenton mission. The arraignment waB then declared postponed post-poned until September 17. Nolan was arrested last night on complaint of agents of the Old Dominion Do-minion Steamship company that the McVIcker girl, whose father was reputed re-puted to be a prosperous inn keeper at Glasgow, Scotland, had disappeared from the steamer Jefferson shortly after lis arrival here Friday. The McVIcker girl had beon entrusted by her brother to the care of a stewardess steward-ess on the vessel, with instructions to remain aboard until Thursday, when she was to have sailed for Scotland on a ticket purchased by her father. At Broadway Hotel. Nolan and the girl were found at a fashionable Broadway hotel where they had registered as H. E. Nolan and" wife. The girl broke down and told the detectives that she had met ""Nolan aboard tlje vessel and at his suggestion that she get a position In Now York had changed her mind about going back to Scotland and gone with blm. Nolan had nothing to say. In the TorabB court today Sumner Gerard, who furnished the cash ball last night appeared for Nolan and asked for a postponment of the arraignment ar-raignment for two weeks and a continuation con-tinuation of the $1,000 bail. The court allowed a postponement of one week, but before fixing the amount of bail ordered the assistant district attorney attor-ney to prepare a formal complaint While the complaint was being drafted draft-ed Gerard and Js'olan, who had beon waiting In the corridor outside, left the building. - Ten minutes later the complaint .was ready and a .search for Nolan and Gerard was made. Not finding olther at once, the court ordered the cash bail forfeited and fixed the amount of the bond for Nolan's appearance ap-pearance on September 17 at $2,600. An hour later detectives told Mam-istrate Mam-istrate Murphy they had found Nolan In Gerard's office. "Well, where Is he?" demanded the court "Why, Mr. Gerard said that the case had been -put over a week and the same bail continued," one of the detectives replied. "Get out and arrest Nolan on st3h," ordered the magistrate, "and bring him before me this afternoon." During the proceedings the McVIcker McVIck-er girl wept copiously and became hysterical when told that her brother, William McVIcker of Newport News, would be requested to appear with her In the proceedings She told the probation officer she bad repented and wanted to go back home. She said that she had married secretly in Newport News last August, Jamq3 Foster, watchman at a Newport News garage, and had also repented that. D'd Not Report. Washington, Sept 10. Harry E Nolan, the young diplomat arrested in New York charged with abduction, was confirmed by the senate as secretary sec-retary of legation at Panama on August Au-gust 22 Nolan, who was born here, but who was appointed from Illinois, had passed the examinations necessary to hi6 appointment and was ordered to report for instructions. He did not do so, however, and has not communicated commun-icated with the state department The go ernment will take no action until the courts pass upon the caae. nn |
