Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-15
ARREST PAIR
IN k|DNAP INC
Denver Police Holding Couple
Of Suspects But Deny Having
Definite Clues.
By CLYDE G. BYERS
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
DENVER, Colo, Feb. Is. = A
battle of wits was fought today be-
tween police and kidnapers with
young Charles Boettcher II. Den
yer millionaire, the prize at stake.
A police blow in the battle was
the arrest Of two reputed gang
sters.
A kidnapers' move in the poker
like contest was a new note to
Claude K. Boettcher, father of the
missing man, setting the ransom
at $4,000.
N. w. Red" Mitchell, 30, and
George zarlingo, 40, asserted alco-
hol runners for a Denver gang,
were arrested and held on an open
charge.
Chief of Police Albert T. Clark
charged the two men were con-
nected with an outside gang, sus-
pected of having staged the kid
naping.
Detectives continued to deny
knowledge of the note received at
the home of Claude K. Boettcher,
father of the young millionaire
missing nearly go hours since he
was kidnapped Sunday night.
1t was known, however, that the
note was received, and that 1t set
the price of young Boettcher's free
dom at $4,000.
i Detectives questioned Mitchell
for several hours. James Quigg
Newton, member of the brokerage
firm of Boettcher, Newton and
James Grant, Boettcher attorney
! were summoned to the police sta
ton during the questioning.
Zarlingo was jailed without ques-
tioning.
Second Note Received
Developments in the kidnap
mystery included the receipt of an
extortion note by a second Den
yer capitalist, Oscar Malo. Con-
tents of the note were a police Sec
ret but they believed it the work
of cranks.
A special delivery letter, deliver
ed at the Claude K. Boettcher
mansion late last night caused. a
furry of excitement among news
papermen and detectives gathered
around the house, who believed II
might have been new communi-
cation from kidnapers.
Claude Boettcher, however, as
serted the letter had nothing tc
do with the case and was addressed
to I. B. Bruce, inspector of police
at Colorado Springs, called into
the case by the Boettchers in ar
advisory capacity.
City firemen and 1000 members
of the American Legion were sworn
in as special officers today to con-
duct a house to house canvass OF
the entire city, seeking the hide
out of the kidnapers.
Detectives, eyes red trimmed from
lack of sleep, investigated the tips
resulting from the ''watch your
neighbor" campaign inaugurated
the day after the kidnapping. Lit
orally hundreds of tips had been
received, and each was run down
All were worthless.
Detectives sought to trace an air.
plane, seen flying near Golden an
hour after the kidnapping, far Off
the ordinary path of air travel.
They investigated the report OF
Charles Ferris, Boulder county
farmer, that small sedan similar
to the one used in the abduction
of Boettcher speeded past his home
over little used country road a
short time after Boettcher was alb
Quoted The road leads to Wy
oming, but is seldom travelled
They investigated the telephone
call placed at Denver hotel to an
apartment in Cicero, ILL.,, said to
have been occupied recently by
Bon Bon" Allegretti, cousin OF
Chicago's imprisoned gang leader
Al Capone. The call, detectives
said, was placed from room oc-
cupied by Frank j. Sullivan, Chi
cago fight promoter, a few days
before the kidnapping. Sullivan told
Chicago police it had been made
during a party at his room and
that he didn't know who called
Police said they were convinced
the call had no bearing on the
kidnapping of Boettcher.