Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-28


was transferred into day OF gladness.
The child was recovered.
All day long no encouraging news was
given by the officers, and the parents OF
the child had almost given up their boy
as lost to them forever.
Mr.. Beals this afternoon issued the
following notice.:
$4,000 RANSOM.
To lOllom 1t Hdy concern:
Return my child, receive $4,000, and
no questions asked.
TSignedl d. T. BEALs.
The ransom money was offered after
a long and serious discussion OF the
ouestion as to whether a ransom or
reward should be offered. The officers
urged that the criminals should be
brought to Justice and that the offering
of a ransom without attempting TO Sc
cure the kidnapers was, from ID moral
standpoint, compouDding q felony.
To these arguments Mr.. Beals replied;
"Arst let me find my boy and then you
can find his kidnapperS." reward
he argued, would attract too many ue-
tectiyes who might run the kldnappers
so close to earth that rather that suuer
the penalty Of their crime, they would
mt the child out of the way and make
good their escape.
Mr.. Beals, therefore, advertised his
willingness to pay ransom In hopes
that II will induce the kidnappers to re-
turn the child to him. He states that
the offer is made in good faith, and
that whatever knowledge he might oo-
tain of the identity OF the abductors,
should they accept his offer, Will De
honorably guarded. Every man, woman
and child In the city is detective to-
day. and they ara all keeping their
ewes omen for Junior Beals, as he was
known.
AS result, the police and Pinkerton's
Headquarters have been hooded WIN
0clues." Many of them have been run
down, but with very immaterial dsveI-
has been diiSeESsTe1 tEe mn
the soy, sSS9y, the ,abfRafR Northeast Eec-
trio Line car at Wabash avenue and
rode to the downtown terminus OF the
road, at the intersection Of Fifth and
Walnut streets. where she alighted with
the child still in her possession.
There all trace of her and Of the
child was lost. But few additional facts
concerning the character OF Lizzie
Smith developed to-day. From inter
views with the other servants it has
been learned that the girl was but lily
educated. From her conversation they
concluded she evidently had lived fast
life and had lived in many OF the large
cities Of the west.
She told the cook confdentially that
she had run away from her home in
Illinois at the age Of eighteen. That
That the woman was going under false
name seems pretty well established for
the other servants say her linen was all
marked with the initials ''L. X"
The suspense and agony under which
the parents are all bat Frustrated is pit
iful. Mr.. Beals is sixty-two years of
age and the strain upon his nervous
system had telling effect. All night
long he paced the hall OF his house to
and fro and would take no rest. To-day
the suspense only increased and he
could not rest.
At four o'clock this afternoon Mr..
Beals received a note handed him by
messenger boy. The boy said an uu-
known Rsn handed him the note on the
street. The description OF the man as
given by the boy tallies very closely
with that of a man who is known to
have occupied the cottage on Lydia
avenue together with another man and
Lizzie Smith. He is supposed to be the
man King.
The note informed Mr.. Balls that he
desired TO meet him in front OF the post
office as soon as possible. Mr.. Beals
was directed to wear plain gold ring
on his left hard prominently displayed,
as a means of Identification. The child,
slid the writer. was securely hidden
and all the detectives in the country
could not find him. he knew where
the child was hidden and would return
him to the father for stated sum.
Mr.. Beals went directly to the post |
Office. and waited two hours for the |
writer Of the note to make himself |
known. but ct the end OF that time no |
one had appeared and the anxious |
father returned home with one more !
hope shattered. 1t is supposed that the |
writer of the note desired to test Mr.. |
BeaIs' good faith in offering the ransom,
or that he became suspicious for some |
unknown reason, or that the note was |
written merely as cruel hoax.
One OF the men who, with another
man and Lizzie Smith, occupied the |
lydia avenue cottage, has been dis |
covered was Albert King. He is the !
man who is supposed to have taken the
active part of accomplice in the kidnap- |
ping. and is believed TO be the man who
has been prowling about the Beals
mansion. Beyond his name little is
known OF him.
At seven o'clock this evening man
Of strangeappearance presented himself |
AZ the froat poor of the BealS mansion. \
He wore false face ana Il wig and was
dressed very much like day laborer.
He told the servant, who answered the
bell. that he must see Mr.. Besls imme-
iistely. Mr.. Beals went to the door.
The man said he was detective;
hat he had found the abductress and
ler accomplices; that they had the lost
ehild In their possession, that they de-
handed $50, 600 ransom, ana that he /
vas prepared TO deliver the child to its
sarents for that amount. Mr.. Beals
declined to pay the sum and stuck to
lis original offer OF $1,000. 1t was
finally agreed that the detective"
should deliver the child for that
stnount.
Mrs. BeaIs told police and detectives