The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-04-06
BABY RETURNED TO MOTHER
WHEN OUTLAWS GET
$4,000 CASH.
s2o,o00 REWARD OUT
GRANDSON OF MILLIONAIRE Is
STOLEN FROM LAS VEGAS
HOME.


so-called bad lands" near the Okla
homa line, four bandits who kid
mapped the two-year-old son OF A. T.
Rogers. Jr., a prominent attorney OF
this city. and compelled the payment
of a $4,000 ransom. are closely pur-
sued by a posse. with the prospect
OF a conflict any time.
Bloodhounds are being used in the
chase and have kept closely to the
trail. telephone message from the
Bell ranch. sixty miles northeast OF
here. said that four men. believed to
be the bandits passed near the ranch.
riding hard in a desperate attempt to
elude the posse.
learning of the kidnapping. immedi-
ately organized a posse and started
trailing the fugitives. They sent word
back that they had ropes primed for
a lynching In case the kidnappers
were captured.
The kidnappers. from description.
are believed to be members OF a des-
perate gang OF postoffice and bank
robbers, all ex-convicts. and men who
will sell their lives dearly.
Young Rogers, who Is a grandson OF
Judge Henry l.. Waldo. a millionaire
OF Kansas City, after whom he Is
named, was taken from his bed We'd
nesday night by the kidnappers. who
forced an entrance to the Rogers
home in this city and. at the point
of revolvers. compelled Mrs. Rogers
to surrender to them her 2-year-old
child.
MIR. Rogers brother. William. was
in the house at the time of the kid
mapping. but he was not disturbed.
Entering the mothers bedroom. the
two masked men pointed revolvers at
Mrs. Rogers and demanded the baby.
She ffered them her jewels. silver
ware and other valuables. but they
told her they had been waiting for
months for an opportunity to steal the
little iallow and told her to hurry up
about it,
Mrs. Rogers then carefully dressed
the baby. gave the abductors extra
the kidnappers departed.
The kidnappers left note for Mr.
Rogers. who was absent from the
city. saying that the child would be
returned unharmed providing $4,000
was paid in cash.
Driven almost insane by fear that
harm would come to her child. the
mother gave no alarm until Friday.
when she conferred with local bank
ers. pledged them to secrecy. as COM
manded in the note left by the kid
nappers. secured the money, which
was in bills OF ten-dollar denomina-
tions or less, and at the appointed
hour her brother-in-law drove alone
to a remote point in the mountains.
eleven miles from Las Vegas. where
the two men received the money.
II was then directed to drive fif-
teen miles in the opposite direction,
where. in a ravne by the roadside,
he found the little boy, wrapped in
blankets and asleep. He returned the
child, unharmed. to its mother.
1t was not until after the child was
returned to its mother, nearly crazed
with fear, that the police were noti-
fled. This gave the abductors several
hours start of the posse that was
sent in search of them.
A reward OF $4,000 has been offered
for the capture of the kidnappers,
dead or alive. One of the kidnappers
was partially identified as Dennis
Hart, a Notorious postoffice and bank
robber, who recently broke jail at
Albuquerque. where he was being
held for trial on charge of postoffice
robbery.