The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-17
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ON SIX ANIL les.
Stealing Of Freddie Muth
Only Part Of Phila-
delphia Plot.
Millionaire Kuhn, Threat
ened, Throws Guard
Around Mansion.
By publishers Press.

BY Publishers Press.
- PHILADELPHIA, June 16.-Fred-
- die Muth is still in the hand
Of the abductor or abductors
who lured him from his school last
Tuesday on the plea that his mother
was seriously i'll and in hospital. Mrs.
Muth was in perfect health at that
time, but tonight she is SO Frustrated
by grief and anxiety that physicians
are constantly at her bedside. They
are trying to encourage her to hope
|. that her boy will be restored to her
within twenty our hours. But this has
been the promise held out to her ever
since Freddie went away with a strange
man.
The chief Of detectives says he is
positive Of the mans identity and
that his capture is certain. Experts
still express belief that the decoy let.
ter was the work Of an educated
American telegraph operator.
. Other Families Marked.
Interest in the abduction of Freddie
Muth was intensified this afternoon
when it became known that the police
and private detective agency are in
possession of information which indi-
Gates the existence Of an organized
gang, of kidnappers who have marked
Eve or six wealthy Philadelphia fami-
lies as victims of blackmail.
/ Samuel Kuhn, a millionaire banker
admitted that he is among the number
On June he received letter signed
".,The Chester Trio,' demanding that
$4,000 be deposited under the Penn.
sylvania railroad bridge over the Ches
ter turnpike, and that failure to heed
the demand would result in the abduc
tion Of his eldest son, Jack, 9 years
old. q
/ Money Is Placed.
/ Instead Of being frightened, Mr.
Kuhn became enraged and in the hope
Of capturing the kidnappers obeyed in
i structions and placed a9:package con
tanning ten $500 81 st the point in
Dictated. He then. enfrIpyed private de
tectives. and had sthe place watched.
/ The local police were motif and !.
guard was set, but the precautions swer,
so elaborate that they defeated thei.
own purpose. An examination Of th,
hiding place Of the money. was mad,
at noon today and the package wa
still there intact. Z; = 5. ~.
Guard Around Homo.
a special gnard of private detective
had been employed. to guard JAG!
Kuhn and the three other younge
children. s..~s.
The: excitement in the neighborhoo
Of the Kuhn homestead is intense an
! the men in the neighborhood have cor
q stituted themselves an armed vigilanc
!, committee relieving themselves b
night and day in guarding their home,
Overlook is one Of the fashionabl
suburbs Of Philadelphia and Kuhn
q millionaire many times over. Hi
estate is one Of the most pretentiou
j in Pennsylvania, his house and ground
being valued at half million dollar
: Near Old Ross Mansion. :.
!. It is about twelve miles from th
: old Ross mansion in Germantown, fro
. which Charlie Ross was lured to b
:. death by Mosher and Douglass in 1877
: The letter to- Mr. Kuhn was in sui
. stance as follows:
As you can well afford to spa1
II $4,000 to men who need the none.
We need 1t and must have it, and v
= wish to say that unless YOU follow o,
l instructions your hoy Jack, who h;
:. been trapped (probably meaning sha
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