The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-16
Salt Lake Police Fo,,. !,
Up to Capture S27 NJ
Reward.
MYSTERIOUS PEOPLE
ARE GAIHER,
Sensational Story Sp.il,,
Pathetic Scene al H.
Police Station.

"Thcre is boy abou+ g..
age, dressed in a dark b,ooi ,ooi n
the Oregon Short Lius t,'H urowH
Just left this city. THIS Ian IAN ap
panied by a woman in XII y
Is a reward of s27,0OO for fa 4
This was the startling inf,N inf, N
ceived by Capt. of PoI;n..o
bidge about S 10 o'clocI 9cn
The information came from nv ~ Z
That ~ 900 looked good ns
bers of the Salt Lake S polica, 70 ~;
when the train pulled ;u,e ICY
at Salt Lake there was pss..,s. .v y
1T Capt Burbige, Detective. y
and Wilson and Ofice,s
Carey. Harris, Ripley and ri.
woman in black" left tbs &
a suit case in her hand \
taken IN charge by Officer RIM
the other officers went NV
train. Asleep in ono Of tho bv q.
boy about four wears AZ 49,.
in dark brown suit Tt r.
sure, 1T looked good. and Il,
made a mental calculation =,
much would have to be o;rs
Ogden chief and how mn.S
them would get. Give tbe "a
say $4,000 for the informati~
he had furnished. that would IT, H.,
600 10 be divided among tLs Nv;
Lake officers. ~ ~
Boy Is Cantured.
When Detective Shannon e,-.
the train with the boy in Z,
he was met by A man and vo-,
think you have my boy y -
man, He and the woman vsr i
taken IN charge by the ofican y
boy in the dark brown suit tn
In black and tbe man who ol,i-L
child, together with the yosr Z
was with the man were iaksn n.
10 the police station. The bor ~,
to recognize the man who clsr5'
be his father. That s270O6 h.
looked good to the oficers n.
who claimed 10 he the father n
boy were separated. The ebii
showed remarkable intellieeuce h
of his age, informed the ost,
bis mother was dead, she had
hospital last June. His pas
Salt Lake. He wanted to tI
While waiting in the Office II h
sergeant the little fellow said g
name was Lloyd Pettee and h
TO find his papa, Carefully he
officers that he had come fros
Oaks, Mich, and that his eraui,
put him on the train. MeanSI
man and two women were bsis
toned in the Office of the chiit
woman in black told the oins|
she had boarded a train at Cha>|
Tuesday. Shortly after the iui
the Windy City she noticed 4 III
who WINS travelling alone. She u
interest in the child, who infwrs
that he was coming to Salt u
meet his papa. The ticket for q:
was in the hands of the ecriE
the train, but after she mad ~
interest in the child aud the ~,
had found that she was golbl
same place as he, the condgsz
placed the ticket Of the chid .
hands, together with the checs q
baggage. The boy had inforta))
that his papa would be in $40
to meet him. Y
Woman in Black A1eaa
When fhe train arrived in "
the woman left the child in Y
while she went TO look Tor =
gage. Before she could refun
train she was notified by an 90
she was wanted. The mar Y
officers that his name was b.
ice and that the child was bis g
mother died in st. Johns bog
Cheyenne, Wyo,, last June; u
child had been taken to I's
Mich. by his (Pettee 'sl moi
had been kept by her until SC
ago, when the grandmother naS
on the train for Salt Lake; r.
formed the officers that ne
ployed by the Oregon Shon Le
wife and brother, who were nv
were sent for, and letters. ia
and photos to prove MS ela'I
they returned, the boy qwens
nized one of the photos as l5
mother: next he recognized
his father, and turning TO Ps'is
.sSom are nv papa" Like q
father grabbed the child II
and kissed him. The identl'! W.
plete, and the officers haa MI III
do bui to tell the parties ihi'
n mistake. sThere goes, i9n
that we thought we had. ~
one Of the officers as the M
and step-mother left the s's'
The kidnapped BOY
The bov was believed by M iM
70 be fonr.yearold Horace Asn
who was kidnapped from ns ~
Dover, Del. on MONDAY. n
DR.. Marvin received o nons' Nd
sou would be returned 10 NY,
was forthcoming. A rewaru - Il,
is offered for the recovery ~
Marvin boy. 1t was oeI,e'W,s pen. ~
officers at the time Una. , 80
the parties in charge at tns :. +,
depot that the boy was 'n'
had been kidnapped, u m
That $4,000 looked goysu r.
LLOYD Pettee was not 'ne
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