The morning call., 1891-11-28
FOUND His CHILD.
Banker BealS' Boy Returned on Payment
Of $4,000 Reward.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 27.-The household
of David I. Beals, the banker, which was
turned into an abode of grief yesterday by
the abduction of his two-year-old son. was
tonight transformed into one of gladness,
the child being recovered. This afternoon
Mr.. Beals offered a reward of $4,000 for the
return Of the child ''and no ques-
tions asked" All day to-day the police
worhed every possible avenue, but could
find no clew, and the parents were nearly
prostrated, neither having. taken any rest
since the boy disappeared. Tonight man
presented himself at the mansion He was
dressed like day laborer and wore false
face and wig. When Beals came to the door
the man told him he was detective; that
be had found the abductress Lizzie Smith,
or King, and her aceompliees; that they
demanded $4,000 ransom, and he was pre-
pared to deliver the child for that amount.
DEMANDED BIG RANSOM.
Beals declined to pay the sum, and stuck
to MS original offer of $1,000. After much
parleying. IT was finally agreed that the
detective" would deliver the child for that
amount Beals told the police that 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 O'clock tonight the
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over upon receipt of 5000 in bank notes.
The child was sleeping soundly, safe and
well. The joy of the parents knew no
bounds. When representative of the As
sociated 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 fur
ther was that he had been riding"
THE ABDUCrREss ARRESTED.
Mrs. King. the abduetress, was arrested
about midnight, but refuses to talk. She
had been in BealS' household but one week,
having answered an advertisement for
waitress, giving the name of Lizzie Smith.
From talk with other servants 1t is gath
cred that she led q fast life in several West
ern cities, having come originally from I'LL
noiS. The police learned to-day that she
himself Albert King. in cottage
Oh Lydia avenue. They passed as
man ana wife and another man lived with
them. They rented the cottage a short
time ago and Furnished it on the installment
plan. 1t was through the notes that they
We're traced. King has not yet been found.
No doubt he is an acc0mplice of the woman
IN the abduction plot-perhaps the orig
inator OF it. 1t is not known if the other
man, who has not been found, had anything
LIZZIE's GAUZY STORY.
Late tonight 1t was learned that the po-
lice caught the woman In the house in Park
avenue. She said she went on the veranda
on Thursday evening to get paper, when
two men rushed up, thrust revolver in
her face ard ordered her to get
the boy. Thoroughly frightened, she
did so. Then the men carried her
To carriage, drove her about for some time
and turned her adrift. The police declare
the story thin. From papers found they
learned she had recently been in Denver
and King. who passed for her husband, was
Telersed from the penitentiary In Colorado
last summer, after five years term for
horse-stealing. The Denver police say both
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