The Cimarron news and Cimarron citizen. (Cimarron, Colfax County, N.M.) 19??-19??, 1911-04-08
Stealing Rich
Men S Children

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ular methods Of extorting money.
Most OF the kidnapers however, are
captured, either before or alter get
ting the ransoms which they have /
demanded.
David T. jr., son of the late Dav-
id T. Beals, who was president |
OF the old Union National Bank of |
Kansas City, Mo-, was kidnapped |
from his home Thanksgiving night,
1891, when he was years old.
A servant girl VINO had been EN-
ployed only a few weeks helped in
the plot. While the family was
eating dinner and young David was
playing in the hall, the maid pick
ed him up and gave him to a man
who was waiting at the front door
The child's father advertised in the
newspapers next morning, offering
S., 600 for the return OF the baby,
and at 10 o'clock that night two
men returned with the child and
received the money Two men
and a woman who had lived at 1898
Park avenue and their actions ex-
cited the suspicious OF neighbor,
who reported to the police. The
woman, Elizabeth Slevidence, was
the maid at the Beals home. She
and one of the men, Albert King,
were arrested, convicted and SEN
fenced to serve a term of five years
in the Missouri penitentiary. The
other man escaped with the mon
ey.
Enward Cudahy, the I5-year-old
son OF Edward Cudahy, the Oma-
ha packer, was kidnapped while re-
turning from a neighbor's house,
December I8, 1900. He was car
ried off in a buggy, by two men
and kept bound and chained in
room in south Omaha for three
days. The abductors threw anote
in the yard of his fathers home,
offering to return the boy for S25,-
600. Edward Cudhay, the father,
drove ont a lonely road and hand
ed over the money and the the boy
was put in a hack and driven to a
place near his home, where he was
released and allowed 70 walk home.
Efforts we're made to capture the
kidnapers, but neither OF the two
men accused OF the crime was
convicted.
Willie Whitla, the 8-year old sor
= OF rich lawyer in Sharon, Pa, was
kidnapped from school, March I8
= 1909. Letters to his parents offer
S ed to give up the boy in return fol
the payment Of $40, 1000. j. p
Whitla, the boys father, tried t.
trap the kidnapers by having OFF
. icers at the meeting place. Thii
failed, and at the rendezvous
! which was Cleveland o., Whitli
turned over $40, 600 in bills to ont
Of the kiduapers. The boy was re
" turned to his father, This wa
March 20. The next day the maj
and woman who had carried the DO.
off were caught by the police. AL
'e except about 800 dollars ofthe ran
IS som was found sewed up in the wo
> mans skirt. The man, James II
IS Boyle, was given life sentence II
al the Pennsylvania penitentiary ant
70 the woman was sentenced to 2
'e years in prision.
q Charley Ross, 5-year-old sol
Re was stolen from his fathers home
= Christian X. Ross, in Baltimore
T. Md, July /, 1874. Although IN
D. father searched for years no trae
D. was ever found OF the boy. Doz
> ems Of young men with mysterious
= childhoods have tried to convinc
al the world that they were Charlie
lie Ross, but the child probably wa
al killed years ago.
IN Four -year-old Hoarce Marvin
IN the son of DR.. Hoarce Marvin, c
al Kits Hummock, Del, disappeare
re from his fathers farm March
ne 1907. Marvin offered $4,000 raT
Or som, and the police were active
st trying to fipd the child. The kic
pt napers became alarmed, as tn
a. penalty for kidnapping in DelawaI
sp is death, and killed the child. II
body was found on his father
40 farm May 4, 1917.