The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-28
BEALs' CHILD RECOVERED.
It's ductors Receive S5,OOO-The Wo
man Who Stole the Boy in Jail.

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KANSAS CITY, Nov. 1.-THE household OF
David 7. Beals, which was thrown into grief
yesterday by the abduction OF a 2-year-old son,
was tonight transformed into one of gladness,
the child being recovered this afternoon. MI
Beals offered a reward of 5000 for the return OF
the child and no questions asked All day To-
day the police worked every possible avenue,
but could find no clue, and the parents were
nearly Frustrated, neither having taken any
rest since il disappeared.
Tonight man presented himself at the man
sion. He was dressed like day laborer ana
wore false face and wig. When Beals came to
the door the man told him he was detective;
that he had found the abductress, Lizzie Smith,
or King, and her accomplices; that they de-
manded $4,000 ransom, and that he was pre-
pared 10 deliver the child for that amount
Beals declined to pay the sum, and stuck to the
original offer OF $1,000 After much parleying
it was finally agreed that the detective" should
deliver the child for that amount Beals told
the police that ne had pledged his honor that
the man should not be arrested while
engage in carrying out his part of the contract.
and ordered them not to interfere. At 10 p. m.
tonight tie man returned with the child and
handed 1t upon the receipt of IS, 600 in bank
notes. The child was sleeping soundly, safe
and well. The JOY of the parents knew no
bounds. When representative OF the Associ-
ated. Press arrived at the house the child was
mother stood by fondly watching him. The
child, when asked who carried him away, SAID
s'Lizzie," but all he knew further was that he
had been riding.
Mrs. King, the abductress, was arrested about
midnight. but refused to talk She has been in
Beal's household but week, having answered
an advertisement for waitress, giving the name
OF Lizzie Smith. From the talk of other
wants 1t is gathered that she led fast life in
several Western cities, having come originally
from Illinois. The police to-day learned she had
been living with a man calling himself Albert
King, in cottage on Lydia avenue. They passed
as man and wife, and another man lived with
them. They rented the cottage short time ago
and furnished 1t on the installment plan. 1t was
through the notes that they were traced King
has not yet been found. No doubt he is the ac-
complete of the woman in the abduction plot,
perhaps the originator of it. 1t is not known if
the other man, also not found, had anything to
do with it or not.
Late tonight it was learned that the police
caught the woman in the house ON Park avenue.
She said she went on the veranda Thursday
evening to get paper, when two men rushed
up, thrust a revolver in her face and ordered
her to get the boy. She was thoroughly fright
ened and did so. Then the men carried her to a
carriage and drove her about for some time and
turned her adrift. The police declare that her
story Is too thin. From papers found they
learned that she was recently in Denver, and
that King, who passes for her husband, was re-
leased from the penitsntiary of Colorado last
summer after five-year term for horses
ing. The Denver police say both are we'll
known crooks.