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Show I BOLD v v a Peuiir I I CITY BRIGANDS j .iST I (MlilSliXjiJW (Philadelphia l-ettar.) Demure Philadelphia is greatly agitated agi-tated over the arrival of Howard Sloan, his half brother. Knight Fin-ley, Fin-ley, Henry K. Wallace and Oscar 8. Dunlop for the abduction ef Mabel Goodrich, a wall known woman, who consorted with the glided youth of that city. Miss Ooodrlrh was accustomed accus-tomed to dress In the richest of fabrics fab-rics and wore Jewelry of the most expensive ex-pensive kind. She spent money freely free-ly and It was thought she always had .considerable ready cash and was In a position to obtain large sums at will. Tha Abduction. The young men arrested for ber abduction ab-duction were In pressing need of money mon-ey and they resolved on bold measures meas-ures to obtain It. It was decided by the quartet that. If they could get the woman to a plsce of concealment and by cruelty make her disgorge or agree to make some of her rich Intimates get the money, the plot could be carried car-ried out successfully and their Identity unknown. So It begun. Flnley disguised dis-guised himself as Mike Olbblnney, fashionable coachman, Sloan as attorney attor-ney of the Philadelphia I-aw and Order Or-der League, bent upon purification of aoclety, Dunlop as Mr. Parker, a man of millions, and Wallace as a aoclety man. The last three Inveigled Mlsa Ooodrlrh, after she had partaken freely free-ly of wine, Into a coach driven by Flnley, Fln-ley, and then their trip began. First the drove to an enilne house at North Wayne and kept the woman there for some time, loiter they took her to the furnished flat of Sloan, on North Twelfth atreet, where the Imprisonment Imprison-ment terminated. The woman surrendered surren-dered all her Jewelry and money to her abductors sooner thsn face death, which was threatened In esse she hesitated. hes-itated. Her captors' demsnd was for $10,000, but tho best the victim could do was to let. them here pins and i It- Wsllsre. Flnley and Dunlop confessed con-fessed artil It upnn arrest and agreed to turt State's evidence. It Is believed tM Wsii.re will fill this role as he " Ike least concerned In the abduo-tloa. abduo-tloa. The prisoners are much cast don over their fruitless folly and ' the prospect of a lung term of Imprisonment staring them lo the face for Intimidating a social outcast Inch apprehension la felt In Philadelphia Phila-delphia because of the abduction, as It shows that unprincipled parties haw power to wreak much harm In thli manner, even In large cltlee. Ies of tba wealthy may be de-spmied de-spmied and large ransoms demanded, but It la hoped the quick capture of Mia Goodrich's abductors will have a alntary effect and prevent almllar erleea being enacted. |