The Washington times., 1929-12-11

wore 3 brown suit and . sort
tan hat.
The whole case was clinched,,
Tor the police, by the presence
III d strong motive for the
crime. On that very Monday
morning their prisoner had an
open quarrel with William
Bryce. In the presence Of .
score Of men he had threatened
tO fire back and with dunn
dilns." He knew the grand
fathers love for the child; knew
that any menace to the boy
would bring william Bryce to
hts knees.
70 q police, goaded by public
cianaor, the proofs were con-
elusive. Guy Elliot had Kid
mapped little Billy Bryce. col
lected the ransom and then, in
the very moment of triumph,
had lost his nerve or his sense
OF direction. He had failed to
make q getaway. The child
was hidden and starving, per-
haps. Or. by now, he might
be dead.
This was their theory. They
poured q hot-shot OF ridicule on
Guys account of his own i'm
prisonment. Bound, gagged and
kept in some hole for q week.
Then who had trained his
dog? Who had brought him to
the ransom scene, and why? IL
another were involved. that
other had n1agnificentIy es-
capped. Why should he bother
b hand q victim to the police?
Why should he pick ON Guy
Elliott,
Nonsensel They had their
man. They gave accounts Of
the capture to the newspapers.
They elaborated their theories.
Guy. they said. had q con-
federate with whose aid he
planned to put over the per
feet crime" They would use
Guys machine, Guys plane,
and would even carry off Pat
to make it appear that Guy had
nothing to do with it. No man
would be stupid enough to so
obviously turn suspicion on him.
self by abandoning his machine
On the open highway. It would,
Of course, appear that Guy had
been victinized: that he, too,
had been kidnapped.
. So the confederate had taken
the plans. Pat and the child.
He. was holding them until GER
tain that the ransom was Sc
cured.
Guy was to remain in hiding
with the dog until the ransom
was paid and possessed.
The two men would then
meet. The ransom would be
split: the confederate escape.
Pat and the child would be
left to. wander about. At the
same time Guy. who of course
wished to return to his home
and his position, would reap
pear. He would arrive In this
disheveled, incoherent condition
and with the tale Of his own
Imprisonment. The girl and
the child would corroborate the
story Of the Mysterious Kid
naper-the Brilliant Phantom
swooping down from the skies
Ike . greedy eagle and carry,
Ing off men, girls, babies.
The abandoned plane, the
machine and the return OF Guy
would give color to the story.
But - something had zone
wrong. Guy failed 10 make the
getaway. And the confederate.
interested only In the ransom.
stu held the girl and the child.
What this confederate might be
doing to then-1night already
nave done-no one could know.
This angle whipped public in
eerest to white heat. A young
girl and little boy were held
captive by q criminal perhaps
flendish one. What was he
doing to them? The chance
that Guy might have some ink-
ling Of their whereabouts made
the public blindly infuriate.
They aided the police In their
efforts to break him.
The three detectives kept him
Sitting at that table in the cap.
tain's room, firing questions lln-
til he sank down limp and ex-
hausted. Nth pitiless insis-
tence they went back over the
week of his alleged imprison.
nlent: they extracted repeti.
tons of his rio to the hills on
the night the ransom vas
taken.
He became incoherent. They
gave him q cup u coffee and
began prodding afresh. Hour
after hour until he was Sobbing
with rage and weakness.
From their questions he knew
that someone had stolen Bar
bara's child that bright little
golden-haired kid who had
come up and given him q
nudge and said, You're wicked
you tell lies!" Someone had
stolen Billy Bryce and sent
word that the child wa done
away with.