Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-28


Pinkertons' headquarters have been flooded
with "clews" Many of them have been
run down but they have led to very imma-
| terial developments. 1t has been discoV-
cred, however, that after leaving the house
with the boy the abductress-Lizzie Smith,
| the servant-boarded Northeast electric
| line car at Wabash avenue and rode to the
| downtown terminus of the road at, the inter
section of Fifth and Walnut streets, where
she alighted with the child still in her pos
session. There all trace of her and the
| child was lost.
From interviews with the other servants
| it has been learned that the girl was i'll
| educated. From her conversation they
| think she evidently had lived fast life and
had been 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 18. That the woman
was going under false name seems pretty
| we'll established for the other servants say
| her linen was all marked with the initials
"L. K"
The Agony of the Parents.
The suspense of agony under which the
parents are all but prostrated is pititul
MIR. Beals is 81 years of aged, and the strain
| upon his nervous system had a telling
effect All night long he paced the hall OF
his house and would take no rest. To-day
the suspense only increased and he could
| not rest.
Mrs. Beals, who is considerably younger
| their husband, being his second wife, bears
| up wonderfully well, although she has
taken no rest since the disappearance of
| her boy. Yet she seems more composed
| than Mi. Beals. 81 could have buried him
easier" she said to sympathizers this morn
| ing, ''rather than to bear the thought he
may We doomed to criminal life or to be
lost to me forever"
| At o'clock this afternoon Mr.. Beals re-
ceived a note, handed him by a messenger
| boy. The boy said an unknown man
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 q cottage on
Lydia avenue in company with another
| man and Lizzie Smith. He is supposed to
be the man il. the case. The note informed
Mr.. Beals that he desired to meet him in
front of the postofice as soon as possible.
The Child Hidden in u Safe Place.
Mr.. Beals was directed to wear plain
gold ring on his left hand, prominently
displayed, as means of Identification.
| The child, said the writer, was securely
hidden and all the detectives in the coun-
try COulQ not unQ nlIl. ne KNEW "HeTc IHo
child was hidden and would return him to
the father for stated sum.
Mr.. Beals went directly to the postoffice
| and waited two hours for the writer of the
note to make himself known, but at 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.. Beals'
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.
All sorts of people have called at the
Beals residence and at police headquarters
to-day with alleged information about the
stolen child Some of them were Spiritual
lists, to whom the shades of departed detec-
tiyes had revealed the whereabouts of the
child. Others, and they were by far the
greater number, were people who had seen
women carrying children about the streets
last night. Others were amateur detectives
who wished to be engaged in the case. All
their information was accepted but little
was acted upon.
+ Albert King, the Supposed Accomplice.
| One of the men who, with another man
and Lizzie Smith, occupied the Lydia ave-
| nue. cottage, it has been discovered, was
| Albert King. He is the man who is sup
posed Co have taken the active part as an
accomplice in the kidnapping, and Is be-
lieved to be the man who has been seen
prowling about the Beals mansion. Beyond
his name little is known of him. He rep
! resented himself to their neIghbors as being
the husband of Lizzie Smith, and it was he
| who purchased the furniture for the house.
He>bought the furniture on the installment
plan, and In signing the notes for future
payments affixed the name of "Albert
King" He said he was grading contractor
engaged in work on the Westaide.
When the police searched Lizzie Smiths
trunk they found in it an autograph album
which contained the signature of "Albert
King" in the same handwriting as that on
the furniture company's notes. Albert King
and the woman are known to have lived in
. small town in Illinois, the name of which
the police decline to make public. Beyond
the name practically nothing is known of
Albert King, and nothing concerning his
occupation has been discovered.
A Masked Man Begins Negotiations.
At o'clock this evening man of strange
appearance presented himself at the front
door of the Beals mansion. He wore false
face and wig and was dressed very like
day laborer. He told the servant who
answered the bell that he must see
Mr.. .,Beals Immediately. Mr. Beals went to
the door. The man said he was detective;
that he had found the abductreSS and her
accomplices that they had the lost child in
their possession; that they demanded $20 900
ransom. He was prepared to deliver the
child to its parents for that amount.
Mr.. Beals declined to pay the sum and
stuck to his original offer of $1,000, 1t was
finally agreed that the detective" should
deliver the child for that amount.
Mr.. Beals told the police and detectives
that he had pledged his honor that the de-
liverer of the child should not be arrested
while engaged in the carrying out of his part
of the contract, and ordered them posi-
lively not to interfere with his plans, and
they did not.
AT 10 o'clock ring brought Mr.. Beals to
the door. He saw his lost child in the arms
of the rufian who bargained for the deliv-
cry of the child. Mr.. Beals, who had
drawn 81, 900 in bank notes early to-day in
order to be ready to fulfill his part of the
bargain, counted out the money before the
eyes of the man and placed the money in
the outer pocket of the latter's coat.
Joy in the Millionafre's Household.
Az tho sano firoo ba x,locod