Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-08
K|DNAP SUSPECTS
f! SOUGHT IN CANADA
Two Involved in Boettcher
!, Case Believed En- Route
to Dominion.
BY the Associated Press.

by ZIG hSSOClhtcQ FTeSS
DENVER, March 8.-The ever
Charles Boettcher, I'd, spread across
the International line into Canada to-
day.
Two OF six persons against whom kid
mapping charges have been filed in
United States District Court, are be-
lieved by Chief of Police Albert T..
Clark Of Denver to be fleeing this coun-
try. They are Vern Sankey, Al, named
by police as the probable leader of the
gang which held the 3l-year- old
wealthy broker captive more than two
som for his safe release, and Gordon
Elkhorn, alias Gordon Best, 80.
Police said both men formerly lived
In Canada and were employed by the
Canadian National Railway. They were
believed by officers to have started their
flight from the vicinity of Sankey's
ranch, 10 miles northeast of Chamber
lain, S. Oak, where Arthur Youngberg
81, one of the six charged, was arrested.
The house has been identified by Off
GERS, through descriptions given by
Boettcher, as the place where he was
held during ransom negotiations with
his multi millionaire father, Claude K.
Boettcher.
Friends in Canada.
Clark, directing the hunt, said he be-
1ieved the two were heading into Can
ada to change into Canadian money the
''hot" 100000 in the United States cur
rency the gang received for liberating
the scion of pioneer Colorado family
a week ago. They were paid with IS,
$40 and $40 marked notes.
II know the men we seek have
friends in Canada" Clark said. II also
have information which leads me to be-
1ieve they are attempting to cross the
international line. They were attempt
ing to exchange the ransom money for
other currency in the United States
when the national bank holiday cut
short their efforts"
Besides the two still at large, and
Youngberg. who has waived extradition
and is being returned here. these are
named in charges filed by Ralph l..
Carr United States district attorney:
Mrs. Ruth Kohler. 80; Mrs. Vern
Sankey, mother of two children. and
Carl Pearce, SO. All are held in Jail
here.
Carr said the charges are among the
first flea under a new Federal statute
known as the "Lindbergh law" which
allows a Federal judge virtually unlim-
tied authority to impose heavy SEN
fences upon conviction.
Attempted Suicide.
Carr added the prosecution had "a
good case" 1t was understood a mass
of evidence collected by Chief Clark as
well as Federal officers who have been
working secretly on the case, had been
placed at his disposal.
Chief Clark said young Boettcher
probably would leave today by plane
for the isolated hide-out to aid Denver
officers in more definitely identifying
the place.
Youngberg, after his arrest, attempted
suicide by slashing his throat and
wrists, but was treated by a physician
who said he was not seriously hurt.
Two groups of Denver officers made
the Sankey ranch house their head
quarters for search of that vicinity
Residents of the desolate, billy dis
trict said Sankey had no apparent oc-
cupation, though he appeared we'll
TODD.
Although no warrant had been issued
for his arrest on the charge authorities
at Regina, Sask, said Sankey had been
sought there for questioning after the
robbery Of the Albert street branch of
the Royal Bank of Canada in February,
1881. Chief of Police Martin j. Bur-
ton Of Regina, did not know Elkhorn.