Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-28
THE LOST Is FOUND.
Banker Beals Receivers His
Stolen Son.
A Ransom of $4,000 Paid for
the Child.
The Woman Who Abducted tht
Infant Arrested.
The Police Looking for Her Two Male
Accomplices-The Parents Over
joyed at the Restoration OF
Their Darling.
Associated Press pispatches.

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KANSAS CRY, Nov. 27.-The house
hold of David T. Beals, the banker,
which was turned into the abode OF
grief yesterday by the abduction OF his
2-year-old son, was tonight transformed
into one of gladness, the child being re-
covered. This afternoon, as related
elsewhere, Mr.. Beals offered reward of
$4,000 for the return OF the child, and no
questions asked. All day today the
police worked every possible avenue,
but could find no clue. and parents were
nearly prostrated. neither having taken
any rest since the child disappeared.
Tonight man presented him.
self at the mansion. He was
dressed like day laborer, and wore
false face and wig. When Beals
came to the door the man told him he
was detective; that he had found the
abductress, Lizzie Smith, or King, and
her accomplices; they demanded $20,-
600 ransom and he was prepared to de-
liver the child for that amount.
Beals declined to pay the su m, and
stuck to his original offer of $4,000.
After much parleying it was finally
agreed that the detective" would de-
liver the child for that amount.
Beals told the police that he had
pledged his honor that the man should
not be arrested while engaged in carry
ing out his part of the contract, and
ordered them not to interfere.
At 10 o'clock tonight the man re-
turned with the child, and handed it
over upon receipt of $4,000 in bank notes.
The child was sleeping soundly, safe
and we'll. The joy OF the parents knew
no bounds.
When a representative of the Associ-
ated Press arrived at the house, the
child was awake and in the arms of his
father, while the mother stood by fond
ling him. The child, when asked who
carried him away, said: "Lizzie !" but
all he knew further was that he had
been "riding."
Mrs. King, the abductress, was ar
rested about midnight, but refuses to
talk. She had been in Beals' house
hold but week, having answered an
advertisement for waitress, giving the
name Lizzie Smith. From the talk of
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led fast life in several western cities,
having come originally fiom Illinois.
The police today learned that she had
been living with man calling himself
Albert King, in cottage on Lydia ave-
nue.. They passed as man and wife and
another man lived with them. They
rented the cottage short time ago and
furnished it on the installment plan. 1t
was through the notes they were traced.
King has not yet been found. There is
no doubt that he is the accomplice of
the woman in the abduction plot, per-
haps the originator OF it. 1t is not
known if the other man, who has also
not been found, had anything to do with
it or not.
Late tonight it was learned that the
police caught the woman in house in
Park avenue. She said she went on the
veranda Thursday evening to get a
paper, when two men rushed up, thrust
revolver in her face and ordered her to
get the boy. She was thoroughly
frightened and did so. Then the men
carried her to carriage, drove her
about for some time and then turned
her adrift. The police declare that the
story is too thin. From papers found
they learned that che has recently been
in Denver, and that King, who passed
for her husband, was released from the
penitentiary. in Colorado last summer,
after five years. term for horse-steal-
ing. The Denver police say both are
well-known crooks.