The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-28
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS RANSOM
offered by the Distracted Parent for
the Return of His Child...Aftcr
Hours of Suspense Man Appears
With the Lost one aud the $4,000 is
Promptly Paid ovcr...Thc Servant
whOwas instrumental In the hbduc-
tion Arrested Mt Midnight.
KANSAS Cry, No., Nov. 2T.-Mr. Beals
this afternoon issued the following
notice:

tiOns asked.
(Signed) D. T, BgAIS.
The ransom money was offered after
n long and serious discussion OF tho
question as to whether n ransom or
reward should be offered. The officers
urged that tho criminals should be
brought to justice, and that the
offering OF ransom without attempt
ing to secure the kidnappcrs was,
from moral standpoint, com-
pounding a felony. To these argu-
ments Mr.. Beals replied: "First let
me find my boy, and then you can find
his kidnappers." A reward, he argued,
would attract too many detectives, who
would run the kidnappcrs SO close to
earth that ratherthan suffer the penalty
OF their crime, they would put tile child
ont OF tho way and make good their
escape. Mr.. Bcals, therefore, advertises
his Willingness topay ransom in hopes
that it will induce the kidnappers to re-
turn the directly TO him. lie states
that the offer is made in good iaitli, and
that whatever knowledge he might oh.
tain Of tho identity OF the abductors,
should they accept his oircr, will be
honorably guarded.
EVERYBODY TURNED DETECTIVE.
Every man, woman and child in the
city is detective to-day, and they are
keeping their eyes open for Junior
Bcals, as he was known. As aresult.
tho police and PinEcrton's head
quarters have been flooded with
.'clucs." Many OF them have been
run down but they have led to very
ilnmaterial developments.
1t has been discovered, however, that
after leaving the house with the boy,
the abductress Lizzie Smith, the SER
want, boarded northeast electric line
car ut Wabash avenue and rode to the
down town terminus OF the road OF the
intersection oi fiftllanl Walnut streets,
where she alighted with the child
still IN her possession. There all trace
OF her and the child was lost.
But few additional facts concerning
the character OF Lizzie Smith devel-
oped today. From interviews with the
other servants it has been learned that
the girl was but lily educated. From
her conversation they concluded she
evidently had lived last life and had
lived in many OF the large cities OF the
West. She told the cook coniidentially
that she had run away from her home
in Illinois at the age OF eighteen. That
the woman was going under false
name seems pretty well established, for
the other servants say her linen was
all marked with the initials al. X"
AGONY OF THE PARENTS.
The suspense OF agony under which
the parents arc all but prostrated is
pitiiul. Mr.. Deals is 80 years OF age and
the strain upon his nervous system had
q telling effect. All night long he paced
the hall OF his house to and fro and
would take no rest. At 1 o'clock this
afternoon Mr.. Bcals received Il note
handed him the note on the
street. The description OF the
man as given by the boy tallics very
closely with that OF man who is known
to have occupied tho cottage on LYDIA
avcnuc, together with another mar, and
Lizzie Smith. lie is supposed to be the
man King. Tho note informed ar. Beal
that he desired to meet him in front OF
the posto;!icc as soon as possible. Mr..
Beas was directed 20 wear n plain gold
ring on his lett hand, prominently dis
played, us Il means OF Identification.
The child. said the writer, was securely
hidden, and all the detectives in
the country could not find him.
lie knew where the child was
hidden, and would return him TO
the father for 4 stated sum. Mr.. Beais
went directly to the postoIlice and
waited two hours ior tho writer OF the
note to MAKE himself known, but at tho
end OF that time no one had appeared
and the anxious father returned home
with ono more hope shattered. 1t is
supposed that tho 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 us a
cruel hoax.
One OF the men, who with another
man and Lizzie Smith occupied the
Lydia avenue cottage, has been discov-
cred rs Albert King. lie is the man
who is supposed to have taken the ac-
tive part oi accomplco in the kidnnp-
ping and is believed to be the man WHO
has been prowling about the Bcals man
sion.
Beyond his name little is known OF
him.
TIE CHILD RECOVERED.
At o'clock this evening a man OF
strange appearance presented himself
at the front door OF the Bcals mansion.
lie wore \ false face and n wig and was
dressed very like day laborer.
Ilc told the servant who an
swcrcd the bell that he must
see Mr.. Beals Immediately. Mr.. Beals
went to the door, The man said lie was
4 detective; that he had found the alb
ductress and her accomplices; that
they had the lost child III their posses
sion; that they demanded $4,000 ram
som, and that he was prepared 10 de-
liver the child to its parents ior that
amount. Mr.. Beals declined 10 paw
the sum and stuck to his original,
offer OF 5000. 1t was finally agreed
that the Detective should de.
liver the child for that amount.
Mr.. Ecals told police and dc.
tectives that he had pledged his
honor that the dclivcrer OF the child
should not be arrested while engaged in
the carrying out OF his part OF tho con-
tract and ordered them privately not to
interfere with his plans, and they did
not.
At 10 o'clock a ring brought Mr..
Beals to the door He saw his log. child