The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-10-12
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Ro8YN M. PERRY OF DENVER
BATTLES WITH cAPToRs.
YOUNG MAN IS STILL MISS tG
TsIephOned to. Friend He Was All
Right Posse Searching Hills
May Still Be Held Prisoner
by Member Of Gang.

Denver, Colo, Oct. 7.-RObyn Mat.
son Perry, son of Samuel NJ. Perry
president. of the Moffatt Coal com
pany, millionaire, and one of the most
prominent men Of Denver, was kid
mapped and held for ransom on a lone,
iy ranch near Oak Creek, Colo.
The young man killed one of his
, kidnapers in desperate fight that fol.
lowed two days captivity. Where
young Perry is today is not known and
posses are securing the hill country
between Yampa and Oak Creek seek
Ing him and Trailing the one living
kidnaper.
For all that is known to the con-
trary, Perry may still be held against
his will somewhere in the hills. Late
In the afternoon an incoherent tele-
phone call from him was received in
fampa in which the young man said
he was "all right" that he was on a
ranch, 'just where he could not tell
and that zone of the men" who kid
naped him would never get up again"
Wire Call a Mystery.
Precious minutes were lost in trac-
ing the strange call, and telephone
operators finally were forced to aban-
don all attempts to locate the sender
The sheriff of Tampa with an
armed posse is searching every foot
of ground and every ranch house in
wide sweep of miles In the belief
that young Perry has lost his way
and that one of his captors, fright
ened after Perry had killed his COM
panion, is seeking TO flee from the
county.
Fifteen thousand dollars had been
demanded by Perry's captors as the
price of his release, according to
letter written by young Perry him.
self and received by his father here
on Thursday night. The letter said
merely that the writer had been "kid-
mapped by armed men" and that he was
being forced to make this demand for
$4,000 under penalty of death" The
elder Perry was ordered to bring the
money on horseback to a spot between
Tampa and Oak Greek and to come
alone. ~3&
Alarmed, the elder Perry hired d
special train, took $4,000, and, accom-
panied by City Detectives Lane, Bell,
Watson and Hollearin, started shortly
after midnight for Yampa.
Missing for Two Weeks.
In the meantime Gerald Hayes old
friend and business associate of the
senior Perry in Denver, sent broad
cast alarm messages to the author.
tiles of Yampa and Oak Creek. He
was dumfOunded to learn that young
Perry, who is superintendent of the
MOffatt Coal cOmpany's mine at Oak
Creek, had not been seen in Oak
Creek for two weeks. He was report.
ed there to have gone on huntin,
trip.
The mysterious telephone call, from
which the inference is made that Per.
~ had slain one of his captors, and
perhaps had escaped, was received by
citizen of Yampa-someOne presum-
ably on the same party line as the
ranch from where Perry phoned
Before the man receiving the call
could learn more or question Perry
regarding the location of the ranch
from which he was phoning the con-
nection was broken. The citizen i'm
mediately communicated with the sher-
If of Yampa, and searching parties
and armed posses left the town for
the hill region. 's.