Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-05
REcovERs HIS CHILD.
Kansas City Banker Pays $4,000 for
His Stolen Hoy. n

Ills stoien Hoy.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 2s.--A few days
ago David Il. Beals, banker of this
;ity, had 2-year-old son abducted,
and all efforts to run down the alb
luctors failed. Yesterday he offered
'eward of $4,000 for the return of the
ehild and no questions asked. Last
hight man presented himself at the
front door of the mansion. lie was
dressed like day laborer and wore
false face and wig. When Mr. Beals
came to the door the man told him that
ie was a detective; that he had found
he abductor, Lizzie Smith or King,
and her accomplices; that they de-
handed 100000 ransom, and he was
prepared to deliver the child to the
parents for that amount Beals de-
,lined TO pay the sum and stuck TO the
original offer of $4,000. After much
parleying it was finally agreed that
The detective" would deliver the child
or that amount.
Bcals told the police that he had
pledged his homo: that the man should
aot be arrested while engaged in carry
ing out his part of the contract and or
1ered them positively not TO interfere.
At 10 o'clock last night the man re-
turned with the child and handed it
over upon the receipt of S., 600 in bank
aotes. The child was sleeping soundly
and was safe and well. The Joy of the
parents knew no bounds. When a
representative OF the Associated Press
arrived at the house, the child was
awake and in the arms of his father
while the mother stood by fondling
and watching him. The child, when
slSed who carried him away. said Liz
;ie, but all he knew further was that
Ie had been riding" Mrs. King, or
Lizzie Smith, was arrested by the
police at midnil hit, but refused TO be
Interviewed She had been In the en-
ploy Of Beals only one week. King has
lot been arrested yet and it is not posi-
lively known that another man who
lived with them frequently figured Mt
Ill in the crime.
Mr. Beals yesterday morning issued
u notice Offering 5000 for the return
Of his child and no questions asked.
The authorities urged that the Grim
mails should be brought to justice and
that the offering of "A ransom without
attempting to secure them was prac-
tically compoundihg a felony. TO this
Mr.. Beals replied:
First let me find my boy and then
you can find the kidnapers."
The police and detectives were
flooded with clues all day, but none of
them led to important developments.
1t was discovered that after leaving
the house the abductor, Lizzie Smith,
boarded an electric car at Wabash ave.
nue. and rode TO the down town ter,
minus, where she alighted with the
child. There all trace was lost. The
ervants in the house say the girl was
llliterate and evidently led fast life,
and had been in many western cities.
She told them that she ran away from
home In Illinois when IL. The fact
that she was going under false name
seems established, for the servants say
ler linen was all marked with the in
tials ~. X.
In the afternoon messenger boy
brought note TO the house, handed
lim by an unknown man on the street.
Il informed Beals that the writer de-
sired TO meet him in front of the post
,ffice as soon AS possible, and directed
lim To wear plain gold ring on his
eft hand as mark of Identification.
Beals went to the postoffice and waited
.wo hours, but no one appeared.
The description given by the boy of
.he man tallies closely with that of
nan known TO have occupied "a cottage
)n Lydia avenue together with another
man and Lizzie Smith. He travelled
inder the name of Albert King, repre-
icnting himself TO neighbors around
ihe cottage as Lizzie Smiths husband
and was supposed TO be an active ac-
complice in the kidnapping. King and
the woman are known to have lived
the name of which the police decline
TO make public.
Later last night it was learned that
The police caught the woman Smith in
a house in Park avenue. She told
singular story TO them, saying that
hhc went out on the vcranda Thursday
evening to get a paper, two men rushed
up. thrust revolver in her face, and
ordered her to get Beals' boy. She
says she was so thoroughly frightened
that she did so. When she returned
with the child, the two men wrapped
shawl about her head, carried her to
carriage, drove her about for some time
and then turned her adrift. The po-
lice declare her story too thin. From
papers found they learned that she had
recently been in Denver and that the
man King, who passes for her husband
was released from the penitentiary
asst year after five years term for
lorse stealing. The Denver police say
both are well known crooks.