The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-11-28
Lizzie Smith. the kidnapping Waitress,
Captured by the Police Last Midnight.
Many CIews and Suggestions During the Day
That Did Not Bear Fruit-The Little One
Unable to Tell Where lie Was Hid.
Banker Besis Offers 50. 900 for the Return
His Abducted I,aby Boy


Banker Beais Offers $4,000 for the Return of
His Abducted Baby Boy.
KANSAS CRY. Nov. 27.-All the circum-
stances surrounding the abduction of
banker Beals's twO-year-old child. David
L. Beals. it,. indicate that the kidnapping
was the result of well-planned con-
spiracy. and that the victim is being held
for ransom. The child was abducted by
servant who was known to the family as
Lizzie Smith. Investigation of the latter's
career here shows that she and two men
rented cottage at No. 1921 Lydia avenue
and paid a months rent in advance. Very
little furniture was placed in the house
and the neighbors say they could learn
nothing of the trio. Immediately after
Lizzie Smiths employment in the Beals
household the furniture was removed, the
house was vacated and the two men disap-
peared. Since that time two men whose
description tallies with theirs exactly have
been noticed about the Beals place. On
one occasion while Mr.. and Mrs Beals were
both away from home they called at the
house and inquired for Mrs. Beals It SO
happened that Lizzie Smith was up stairs
and that the cook answered the bell.
When she told them that Mrs Beals was
not at home they said they would wait,
but the servant told them that Mrs Beals
would not be at home for some time and
they then left. Neither the police nor the
detectives have as yet found any trace of
the child or his abductors,
Mr. Beals this afternoon issued the fol-
lowing notice:
$4,000 RANSOM.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
Return my child. receive $1,000, and no quos-
tloDs asked. ID. T. BEALs.
The ransom was offered after a long and
serious discussion of the qr sstion as to
whether ransom reward should be
offered. The officers urged that the GRIM
nails should be brought to Justice and that
the offering of a ransom without attempt
ing to secure the kidnapers was, from a
moral standpoint compromising fell
ony. To these arguments Mr.. Beals
replied: First let me find my
boy and then you can find his kid
napers." reward he argued. would at
tract tcv many detectives. 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. MIR. Beals, there
fore. advertses his willingness to pay a
ransom in hopes that it will induce the
kidnapers to return the child directly to
him. He states that the offer is made in
good faith, and that whatever knowledge
he might obtain of the identity of the
abductors. should they accept his offer,
would be honorably guarded.
Every man. woman ana child in the city
ls a detective to-day. and they are keeping
their eyes open for Junior Beals. as he
was known. As a result the police and
Pinkertons Headquarters have been flood
ed with "cIews" 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 a northeast electric
line car at Wabash avenue and rode to the
downtown terminus of the road, at the
| intersection of Fifth and Walnut streets.
| where she alighted with the child still in
her possession. There all trace of her aud
the child was lost.
| character of Lizzie Smith developed to-
day. From interviews with the other
servants it has been learned that the girl
was but lily educated. From her conver-
| lived o fast life. and had lived in many or
| the large cities of the West. She told the
| cook cOnGdentialiy that she had run away
| from her home in Illinois at the age of
eighteen. That the woman going
under false name seems pretty we'll es-
| tablshed. for the other servants say her
| linen was all marked with the initials Il.
| K.D
The suspense of agony. under which the
parents are all but prostrated, Is pitiful.
Mr.. Beals Is siXty-twOy years of age, and the
| strain upon his nervous system had tell
ing effect. All night long he paced the hall
| of his house to and fro and would take no
| rest. To-day tho suspense only increased
| and he could not rest. Mrs. Beals. who is
| considerably younger than her husband.
| being his second wife, bears mp wonder
| fully we'll under the terrible ordeal, and.
although she has taken no rest since the
| disappearance of her boy. seems more COM
| posed than Mr.. Beals. Il could nave buried
] him easier." she said To a sYmpathiZing
1 friend this morning, rather than to bear
| the thought that he may be doomed TO o
criminal life or to be lost to me forever"
| FAILED TO KEEP HIS PROMISE.
| AT O'Clock this afternoon Mr.. Beals re-
ceived note handed him hy 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 the man
who is known to have occupied the cottage
on Lydia avenue. together with another
| man ana Lizzie Smltn. I1e is huppOseu 10
be the man King. The note Informed Mr.
! Beals that he desired to meet him in front
| of the postofiice as soon as possible. Mr.
| Beals was directed to wear plain gold
! ring Oh his left hand, prominently dis
played, as a means of Identification. The
child, said the writer. was securely
hidden and all the detectives IN the conn-
try could not find him. He knew where
| the child was hidden. and would return
! hun 10 the father for IL stated sum. Mr.
| Beals went directly TO the postotfice 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 horne with one
more hope shattered. Ii is sapposed that
the writer of the note desired to test Mr..
| Beals's good faith In Offering the ransom,
or that he became suspicious for some un-
| known reason or that the note was writ
ten merely n cruel hoax.
All sorts of people have called at the
Beals residence and az police headquarters
to-day with alleged information about the
stolen child. Some of Them were spiritual
lists. to whom shades of departed detectives
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 W ho
wished 10 be engaged in the case. All their
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