San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-03
Four White Men Abduct
Wilbert Bailey and
Chlcroform Him.
SOUGHT ANOTHER MAN
Remark Heard by Lad Leads
to Belief They We're After
a Man Named George.

Wilbert Bailey, 1T-year-old school
boy was kidnapped by four unidentified
white men at IL :10Friday night, chloro-
formed and then when his assailapts
discovered he was not the person they
wanted they hurled him from an auto
mobile.
For nearly six hours the boy, dazed
and in a semi-conscious condition lay
ON the ground along the right-of-way
of the l.-G. n. railway tracks, % feet
north of the Fredericksburg road cross,
ing. He was rescued at 4 80 Saturday
morning when two dairymen found hin.
He was taken to his home, where, it
is reported, he is still i'll as a result of
the heavy administration of the drug
and exposure to cold and a drizzling
rain.
The victim is the son of J. W. Bailey.
civilian chef at Fort Sam Houston
whose residence is situated at 33I
Granada street, three blocks from where
his son was thrown from the ear BY his
abductors.
Police and detectives have only
vague description of the lads assail-
ants.
Gives Only Meager Description.
Young Bailey related the circum-
stances of the assault TO detectives v no
reached his home, after Mr.. Bailey re-
ported the case to police headquarters
when the dairymen carried his boy into
the house. Mounted Officers Perrow,
Baltezar and Pfeifferling were detailed
on the search from nearby sub-police
stations. No trace Of the abductors
had been found at an early hour Satur-
day.
The automobile used by bis alb
ductors, Wilbert Bailey told detectives,
was Buick. He was unable TO fur
nish a description of the men, other
than they were white. He obtained, he
said, but fleeting glimpse of them in
the darkness before he was overpow.
cred. The man driving the car, he
said, seemed to be about 81 years old
and appeared TO be very stockily built.
The others, too, he said, appeared 10
be men ranging in age from 30 10 50
years. Their clothing, OF dark ma
terial, judged by the inspection the boy
could make, appeared to be Of good grade.
The car, he said. appeared new and in
first class condition.
Accepted Invitation to Ride.
The youth told officers he had spent
the evening at the home of a girl com
panion in Woodlawn Addition. He was
en- route 10 his home. he said. aud
was walking along East Cincinnati
avenue, when overtaken by the auto
mobile. He had passed the bridge span
ming the Martinez creek, approximate
ly a half block, he said when the &C.
cupants hailed him. They asked him,
he said, il he wanted a ride. The car
was headed toward the city in the d.
rection of his home, he told officers,
and he accepted the invitation.
Hardly had he entered the back part
of the automobile, he said. when the
two men in the tonnesu grabbed him
and quickly overpowered him. Some
thing pressed against his mouth. prob
ably a coat or rug. he said, prevented
him from making an outcry.
Got the Wrong Person.
In the meantime. he said. the driver
had whirled the automobile, making
complete turn and started back toward
WoodIawn Addition. Before the car
was reversed, he said, a large hand
kerchief, moistened with chloroform or
some other drug was pressed against
his mouth and nose and held firmly
in position. The handkerchief was sat
urated several times while being held
against his face. be said. Despite his
struggles, he said, be felt himself slip
ping into a stupor.
The car had reached Zarzamora
street, the boy told detectives. when he
heard one of the men suddenly ex.
claim:
Say, this isn't George! We've got
the wrong man."
Wilbert Bailey said he did not know
what happened after that. He was fast
becoming unconscious and the last he
heard was the mumbling of voices. Then
he lapsed into unconsciousness.
He was reused, he said, by a severe
shaking of his body and awoke suffi.
GENTLY 20 discover himself in the hands
of two men. These proved to be the
dairymen who had found him lying
near the railway tracks.
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