Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-04-03
Rumored That Identity Of
Criminals Discovered, but
That Efforts Are Being
Made to Hush Up Affair.
POSSES RETURN HAVING
ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING
Fornoff. Captain of New Mex.
leo Mounted Police Leaves
for North on Mysterious
Errand.

Las Vegas. NJ. ApriI 2-Four
days haV. elapsed sinc. the sensation
al kidnapiu of ntti. Waldo Rogers.
grandson of " l. waido Tire. daNs
haN" gone by since the ransom OF
st.o"0 Mas paid Tor tn. safe return
"t III" boy To his parents. Mr.. and
Mis \. I Rogers, Jr Though th-
town has been filled with mounted
policemen and santa Fc detectives
sinV" the parents. cow.d by The kid-
n"p"rs INTO silcnc. TN the child had
been redeemed. gave the first lu,i,ua.
ton OF the occurrence, no arrest has
been made. HumorS of every kind
are IN circulation. bui tn. Officers arc
neither denying nor confirming them.
while theN are not saving much, the
mounted police and tn. santa Fe de-
t"ctiv"s. under IN. leadership of Cap
tain Fred Fornou and Timothv
- i"afN of Pueblo. are cxtremcl,
active. That they hav. som. definit.
plans upon which they are working
- well known. hut they absolutely re-
fusc To- disclos" tn. nature OF their
operations of the lines upon which
they are working Officers are max
ing close inVsstipation 90 the ground
covered hy tn" kidnapcrs during their
operations. Al the point where ths
money was paid over they have had
a number oi photograp phs made A
local photographers has taken pictures
ui tracks found in that ,irinity. II
II said these az. being prepared with
proot marks aud may lead to the
Identification of the kidna pers. TIL.
li"ErrS home has been given thor
"ugh search in the hope OF finding
evidence that viii result; in picking
up clew. Practically ali the posses
hav" returned to the city and me
work of the officers yesterday was
confined 10 the city limits and III.
country Immediately surrounding Las
Vegas. Yesterday afternoon a vacant
adobe housr near Romerovile.
short distance south uf Las Vegas,
was searched Il IL believed tn. child
was kept Ia this house during the
time h.. was IN the possession of his
nbductur The building showed cvi-
dcncos of occupancy and u coupl. OF
billiard balls were found there. N
is believed these we're given To tn.
child ~ playthings 1, is Impossible.
however To- md trails leading iron.
IN. house that W"r" az sufficient
| dcfiniloness To- follow The report ~
| current this afternoon that tn. Off
GERS have discovered another clcw.
| captain Fred Foruoft of the mounted
| police left her" un santa r. train Ne
| 10 at . 10 o'clock. He refused To
! divulge his destination. saying hr was
| going up the road north piece. ana
would br back tomorrow night. The
reason for his sudden departure has
caused much comment That Fornoft
| viii bring back with him one or two
men Implicated IN the kidnapping II
| the general verdict Last night cap
tain Fornoff stated thnt Will. work
on the ease was necessarily slow, tn"
| mounted polir, IN short tins. would
! ho able tu max. som. interesting dis
| closures. This morning when seen Oy
Ia Herald correspondent h.. said
". ate against "A stone wall Nn
/ adNanVrm, nis have been made IN the
case. Tn. possibilities of an early ar
rest 49," nov remote.
\ short tim. later fornoff held a
! conference with other officers. IN
/ IN" party vrrc some OF tn. members
/ 90 the possrs which returned last
/ night Immediately after the contct :
/ cnc- Fornott huri,.dlv packed nif
| grip and took the first train Tor the
| north u ~ believed that an im-
pcrtant clrw had been picked no ana
! that that rornoff lpft to run IL down
! and max. arrests ! " Hand a
+, prominent ranch"r went out wiin .
pHrt, FRIDAY afternoon ana rclurn' "
home rarly this morning after nav
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