Connecticut western news., 1897-08-26

turned in two hours. The police. who had been informed, went to the place in- dicated, and. while one of them deposit cd a package, others watched and searched the vicinity, but failed to find any one.
 The police and the friends of the fam fly worked for two days to find the lad, searched every cranny in the city, and yet obtained no clew of his whereabouts. Chief among the searchers was Joseph Hardy, Conways brother-in-law, who formerly made his livelihood as a florist. but lately has been doing nothing. Hardy recently took to spending a great deal of time around the poolrooms. and, having little money, appealed for aid to Conway on several occasions. Conway refused to give him money, and a cool ness srose between the two. But when the boy was taken from his home on Monday Hardy was the first to go to the aid of the lads distracted parents. In a melodramatic manner he offered his services with the words:
 Whatever has passed between us trouble.'
 Brother-in-law Suspected.
 His services were gratefully accepted.
  hitting energy to get some trace of the stolen child. On Thursday suspicion began to be directed toward him, but he denied all connection with the kid naping, and Conway secuted the idea. This suspicion had its inception in the fact that Fl. c. Blake. a furniture deal- CT and boon companion of Hardy, was found to be missing. The police having once taken up this line followed 1t, and with success.
 An active search for Blake was be- gun. He was found on Thursday by some representatives of an Albany newspaper and was induced to go to the office of the paper with Hardy. He was then indirectly accused of knowing where the child was, but he assumed an attitude of Injured innocence. He was threatened. but replied with absolute denials of the charges. Persuasion was then tried. The paper offered him S20O0 If he would produce the child. To this offer he coolly replied. Make 1t s2, 800. and I'll see what can do about it,"
 A bargain was struck. Blake declared that he did not know where the missing boy was. but that he knew a man who did know where the child could be found. He promised faithfully that If he received S2. 800 he would arrange that John Conway should be delivered to his parents within two hours after day. light. The mans cupidity got the better of his Judgment. He seemed to think that he could know all about the boys whereabouts without being charged with complicity In the Kidnapping.
 Conway Hoy Recovered.
 A rescuing party left Albany in a carriage with Blake taking a clrcultous route, and finally drew up at the west ern boundary of the city and proceeded along the Schenectady turnpike to Kar- ners, a small station on the Central, eight miles west of Albany. They pro- ceeded under the direction of Blake. On the edge of woods just outside of Karners Blake slgnaled the party to stop.
 Here the rescuers were shown the child. who was with a masked man some distance away in the woods. Aft CT some parleying with Blake over the payment of the ransom. the officers sue ceeded In rescuing the child without payment of the promised reward. In the commotion Blake escaped. On the following day, however. he was cap tured, and with Hardy is now In GUS tody. The police had great difficulty In restraining the excited people from lynching Blake and Hardy.
 A third party implicated in the kid naping of the Conway boy Is Albert s. Warner a New York lawyer, who is still at large and for whom the police in several cities are searching. A woman. whose name has not yet been made public. Is also thought to have been connected with the ease.
 Warner was said to have been in Newark. N. J.. the day after the little Conway boy was kidnapped. The AL bany police believe he Is now in Ulster county.
 It is now believed that the abduction of the Conway lad was but detail of one of the most daring plots that was ever invented by man. IL was planned to kidnap children in this vicinity by the wholesale and demand ransom for their return. The work was to be done by a notorious gang of crooks. whose base of operations Is New York city. The children were to be taken the same as was the Conway boy and If ransom was refused were to be quietly disposed of. Hardy. the uncle of the boy, was not one of the origlnators, but was merely an informer for Blake and War ugr.