The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-28
Kansas City Kidnappers Get $4,000
for the Return OF the
Little One. Il
There Is Consequently Great JOY
Ia the Household Of Banker
Beals.
Tho Ai,ductress Arrested and Her Career
Discovered ny the Police--Negotiat.
ing with tho Scoundreis.

KANSAS Cry, Nov. 27.-The household Of
David r.. Beals, the banker, which was
turned into board Of grief yesterday by
the abduction of the two-year-old son, was
tonight transformed into one Of gladness.
the child being recovered. This afternoon
Mr.. Beals offered n reward Of 5000 for the
return of his child and no questions asked.
All day to-day tho police worked every pos
sibls avenue, but could find no clue, and
the parents were nearly prostrated, neither
having taken any rest since II disappeared.
Tonight man appeared ut the mansion.
He WAS dressed like A day laborer and
wore u false face and wig. When Beals
came to the door the man told him he was
a detective, that he had found the abduct-
ress, Lizzie Smith, or King, and her ac-
completes; that they demanded $4,000
ransom and he WAS prepared to deliver the
child for that amount. Beals declined to
pay the sum and stuck to the 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 he had pledged his
honor that the man should not
be arrested while engaged in carrying out
his part OF the contract and ordered them
not TO interfere. At 10 p. m. tonight the
man returned with the child and handed it
over upon receipt of $1,000 in bank notes.
The child was sleeping soundly. safe and
we'll. The Joy Of the parents knew no
bounds. When representative of the
Associated press arrived at the house the
child was awake and in the arms of his
father, while the mother stood by fondly
Watching him. The child, when asked who
carried him away. said Lizzie" +" but all he
knew further was that he had been
s'riding.''
Mrs. King, the abductresa, was arrested
about midnight, but refused to talk. She
had been in Beals' household but week,
having answered an advertisement for a
waitress, giving the name of Lizzie Smith.
From the talk OF other servants it is gath
cred that she led a fast life in several west
ern cities, having come originally from
Illinois. The police to-day learned that
she had been living with man calling
hinasslHS Albert King in u cottage on Lydia
avsnue.s They passed as man and wife, and
another man lived with them. They rented
q cottage short time ago and furnished 1t
on the installment plan. 1t was through
these notes that they were traced. King
has not yet been found. No doubt he is an
ACCOmDllCo OF Gl0 WOuluH Ill Gu5 HDuuC1lOl
plot-perhaps the originator of it. 1t is
not known if the other man, also not found,
had ANYTHING to do with it.
Late tonight it was learned that the po-
lice caught the woman in a house on Park
avenue. She said she went on to the ver-
anda Thursday evening to get pape,
when the 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 a carriage.
drove her about for some time and turned
her adrift. The police declare the story
too thin. From papers found they learned
that she had recently been in in Denver,
ana that King, who passes for her husband
was released from the penitentiary of Col
orado last summer after five years' term
for horse stealing. The Denver police sa,
both are we'll known crooks.