Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-30
NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
Banker Beals' kidnapped Child Returned
for a5, 900.

who was kidnapped Thursday evening by
Lizzie Smith, was returned at 9:45 Fri
day night on payment of a 81, 900 ran
som.
Mr.. Beals Friday afternoon had the
following notice ,ublished:
5000 RANSOM.
To Whom 1t May Concerns
Return my child, receive 5000, and no
questions asked. ID. 7. BEALs
The ransom was offered after a long
and serious discussion of the question 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 with,
out attempting to secure the kidnapers
was, from a moral standpoint compound
ing felony.
To these arguments Mr.. Beals replied:
"First let me find my boy and then you
can find his kidnapers. A reward, he
argued, would attract too many detect
ives, who might run the kidnapers so
close to earth that, rather than suffer the
penalty for their crime, they would put
the child out of the way and make good
their escape. Mr.. Beals, therefore, ad-
vertised his willingness to pay a ransom
in hopes that it would induce the kidnap-
ers to return the child directly to him.
He stated that the offer was made in good
faith, and that whatever knowledge he
might obtain of the identity of the alb
ductors, should they accept his offer,
would be honorably guarded.
AT o'clock Mr.. Beal received a note
by messenger boy who said that an un-
known man handed it to him on the
street. The note informed Mr. Beal that
he desired to meet him in front of the
pOstoffice as soon as possible. The child
said 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 a stated sum. Mr.. Beal
started at once for the postotfice and un-
til all the departments were closed for
the night, he paced up and down the cor
ridors increasingly. Finally, at a late
hour, friends led him to his desolate
home.
Shortly after the evening papers ap-
peared with the offer of $j 600 ransom,
man whose description no one has OBJ
tanned, appeared at the Beal's residence
and called for Mr. Beal Mr.. Beal APP
peared and the man said that if $4,000
in cash was paid him at $40 and the
police were instructed to keep ont Of
the way, he would return the child.
He finally consented to take 5000.
Mr.. Beals willingly made the promise
asked, and sent down to his bank for the
money in small bills.
At the hour appointed the man with
the boy, safe and sound, appeared at the
residence and delivered up the child
He received the $1,000, counted it de-
hberately, bowed politely and disap-
peared. The scene in the next room
when the child appeared was indescrib-
able. The joy Of all was unbounded.
The police had struck hot trail, and
at about the time the child was returned
the woman, Lizzie Smith, was arrested
in a vacant house in a lonely locality.
She was taken to the police station and
then to the Beals house, where she was
fully identified Mr. Beals believes the
child was never out of the vicinity of the
house.
A Bad Pair.
The police have ascertained partially
the identity of the kidnapers They
learned from the letters found in Liz
zie Smiths trunk that she had been re-
Gently in Denver. From the Denver po-
lice it was learned that she and the IN n
Albert King. who passes for her hus-
band, had been released from peniten-
tiary in Colorado on Aug. l3 last, after
having served term Of five years for
horse stealing. The Denver police say
they are well known pair of crooks.
Lizzie Smith claims that the boy was
taken from her by two unknown men.
Her story is not believed, and it is sup
posed that her alleged husband, King,
and another man were the kidnapers,
aided by her.
King Arrested,
The mysterious King, alias Dennis,
alias SPINDLE, who. it is said, returned
the kidnapped Beals child, was arrested
Saturday morning at a. IN. He is the
chief operator in the abduction and was
undoubtedly the man who delivered the |
child and obtained the S., 600 ransom.
He was entering the house at 1881 |
Park avenue where Lizzie Smith alias |
was arrested. He had opened the back |
doors when a policeman, who had been |
placed there in expectation that he |
might return, placed him under arrest |
AT the police station King was searched. |
No money was found upon him.
There was 3S-caliber revolver i'll his |
hip pocket, but he did not attempt to
use it when arrested. King had little to
say He replied to questions as to his
part in the abduction: Il know moth |
ing about it, the woman can tell you |
everything" He refused to say whether |
it was he who returned Baby Beals and |
received the $1,000.