The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-02-06

LONG RIDGE, N. Y, Feb 4.-Retribution
came swift to the kidnapers Of eight-year-
old Ward Waterbury. Not only did the
boys abductors, hemmed in on all Sides
deliver up their hostage without the $1,000
ransom, but they were themselves captured
last night, and the details were unearthed
of a remarkable conspiracy Of which the alb
duction of Ward Waterbury was only the
beginning. The leader of the conspiracy
sought refuge from arrest in the cave where
it was intended to hide the abducted boy,
and the actual abductors becoming alarmed
brought the kidnapped boy to the house of
Lewis Close at Barneville, at midnight, told
him to rap and then ran away. The boy
knocked, Close let him in, heard his story
and took him home.
Big as was the ransom Of SO, 900 demanded
for the return of the captive, it was small
compared to the game which the kidnapers
were after. By the seizure and holding Of
Ward Waterbury until So, 900, or nearly that
amount of money, had been paid for his re-
turn, the conspirators simply desired to get
enough money to enable them to perform a
far more daring abduction, by which they
hoped and intended to receive $4,000
William II. f. Lockwood is boy of eight
cen, who weighs hardly 100 pounds, and
who is the only child of ex-President Han
ford Lockwood of the Loan, Trust and De-
post bank of Greenwich, Conn. Greenwich
is town within about eight miles Of the
scene of the abduction Of Ward Waterbury.
William Lockwood is now attending school
at Hackettstown, N. j.
overshot Their Mark.
The plan was to lidnap young Lockwood,
probably by getting him into carriage on
the pretext that his father was very i'll and
had sent for him. Elaborate preparations
were to be made, with the aid Of the ransom
money to be secured for young Waterbury,
to insure the success of the plan and keep
young Lockwood in hiding until his father
should give up $4,000.
But the plotters overstepped the mark OF
safety They confded their plans to ona
man, who refused to Join them, and he told
the whole story to Sheriff John Dayton, OF
Greenwich. The man who gave the details
of the plot was William McCann, who lives
on the West road, near Barnsville. AS soon
as Sheriff Dayton heard the story he, in
company with Prosecuting Attorney James
Walsh and ex-Sheriff Noonan, started out
to arrest Charles Waterbury, Samuel Suther.
land and James McCann, who were stated
by William McCann to be the men con.
cerned in the plot, Charles E. Waterbury,
who lives in West Stanwich, is a charcoal
burner, and nephew of the Charles Water.
bury who is the father of the abducted boy
Samuel Sutherland, farmhadd lives in
West Stanwich, and James McCann lives on
the West road and is a relative of William
McCann,
The Abductors Jailed.
The officials did not wait TO prepare war.
rants, as the district attorney could order
an arrest on sight In three hours from the
time of starting James McCann and Samue
Sutherland had been arrested and lodged in
jail at Greenwich. James McCann imme
diately confessed, and said that Charles E
Waterbury intended to meet the father Of
the boy at Millers bridge Tuesday night
and would have done so but for the fact
that he (McCann) backed out.
In the meantime, Charles E. Waterbury
heard the whispers against him and tool
alarm. He told Mccain, before McCanI
was arrested, that he would spend the night
| In the Devils Den Waterbury heard oi
| McCann's arrest and instantly fed, CLOSELY
pursued by Sheriff Dayton, Constable Ftz
| roy and posse.
Waterbury succeeded in reaching the
/ Devils Den and at a late hour was still il
the cave. He is surrounded, cannot escape
and will probably be captured tonight.
Thus has ended, in grief TO its instigatOrs
one of the boldest of abductions, while the
kidnapped child y again restored TO It's par
entS
The greatest part of the scheme, the alb
ductioD of the bankers son, failed through
the failure Of the preliminary abduction, thi
object of which was the raising Of fund
with which to carry out the complete plan