The Forrest City times., 1891-12-04
HAS GOT THE CHILD.
BANKER BEALS PAYS S5.ooo TO
 THE kIDNAPERS.
Large Rewards Ofered-A Stranger Case Than That Of Lost Charley Ross--
 Kansas City Highly Wrought Up.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov. 30.-David T. Beals. the millionaire banker, whose 2-year old boy was kidnapped Thanks giving day, recovered his child last night. During the day he made an offer of 5000 for the infants return, and on it's being brought to him paid over the money.
 It was little after : o'clock when strange man, wearing wig and a false face such as are used in masquerades, called to see NIT. Beals. He said he was a detective, that he had found the abductors of the lost child, and they demanded s2O,Oo for its return. Mir. Beals answered that his offer of S5,ooo still stood good, but he would decline to pay the larger sum, and finally bargain was struck. The man agreed to return with the stolen child and Mir. Beals promised not only to pay the re- ward but to secure the delivercr i'm munity from arrest. Then the man went away.
 Then Mir. Beals saw the police. They were anxious to arrest the unknown man were he to return, but the anxious father would not listen to them. .I promised that he should not be touched while performing his part of the con tract" he said, ''and I shall keep my word" So he sent the police away and waited for his visitor to return.
 At 10:3o o'clock the door-bell rang and Mir. Reals answered it himself. On the steps stood the visitor of the earlier part of the evening, disguised as be- fore. In his arms he carried what might have been child, but wrapped up so as to be unrecognizable. Silently Mir. Beals ushered him into the house and silently the man entered.
 "Well?" said Mir. Beals when once they were in the dining-room.
 Here he is," answered the man gruffly, as he took the wrappings off the form in his arms and disclosed the lost child sleeping soundly. "Now where's the stuff"
 ''I will get you the money" was the banker reply, as he opened a small house safe. He haa drawn the money in the afternoon when he made an offer of reward for the return of his boy. Taking out the roll of bills he counted the money into the visitors hands. It tallicd up just s5,ooO.
 Is that all right?" he asked.
 "All right" was the response, and thrusting the money into his pocket he walked out into the darkness, leaving Mir. Beals alone with the child.
 The happy father called his wife and the mother wept with joy when she again fondled her recovered treasure.
 Lizzie Smith, or King, who stole the child was arrested in a house in house in Park avenue. She told a very thrilling story of the abduction. She said while the family were eating dinner Thursday evening she went ont on the veranda to get the evening paper, which was delivered there every day. As she was going into the house she saw two men approaching the house. She thought they were visitors and opened the door to let them in. After they had mounted the steps, one of them thrust revolver in her face and ordered her to go into the house and get Mir. Beals' boy. She was so thoroughly frightened, she said, that she obeyed the order, scarcely knowing what she was doing. When she took the boy she ran to the door, the two men wrapped shawl about her head, carried her down the driveway to a car riage at the gate, thrust her into cab, drove her about for some tune, and then turned her adrift.
 The story, of course. is not credited by anyone. It is certain that Albert King, who is probably Lizzie Smiths husband, is the man who returned the child and received the reward. The yolice have learned that he and his wife were recently released from the Colorado penitentiary for horse steal. ing. They are both old-time crooks.