The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-13
Charles Boettcher Kidnapped In Denver
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Boetteher and wife of the oil mil- IioDaire also was discarded,
 This prowlor, Paul C. Taylor, trusted telephone company om- ploye, convinced authorities he was proving solely because he had been drinking. IIO was released.
 Tho content of tho ransom note was q ZealOusly guarded secret of the police, who refused to confirm officially that tho note even existed. It was reliably reported to have have been handed Mrs Boetteher, however, and the police motive In suppressing it whs to forestnll any interference with its direction for communication with tho kidnap- CTS.
 New York, Feb l3-U.P.)-Al- though his financial interests hre centered in the Rocky Mountain region, Charles BOettchcr, kidnap. cd Denver banker, is well known in tho east, and iB n friend Of Col oneI Charles A. Lindborgh, whom he was known through G mutual interest in aviation,
 PoOr's register of directors lists HIIt VI ssoWby Hh B't Inc, and n director of tho Mid- Continent Ar Express Company. IIe Is also a director of the St Louis Valley Southern Railroad and of the Denver National Bank.
 His family has, in addition to extensive oil holdings large blocks of stock in the Great Western Sugar Company, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, and tho Color ado Portland, Nebraska Portland, Union Portland and United States Portland Cement Companies.
 New York, Feb 13 - (U,P) -- Close friends of MT and Mrs Charles Boettchcr in New York have been annoyed recently by kid- nap threats.
 These friends, Mr and Mrs Ver- ner Reed and MT and Mrs Craw- ford HiIl, both descended from Col orado pioneers. are high In the so- cInl world.
 Last June Mrs Reed and her two children fled from their $500,0O0 mansion at Pinehurst, W. C., to Glen Cove, l.. l., where they lived under guard. Two men, Harold Dean and Joe Lucas of R0scland, N. C., were arrested when they ap- peared at q church near the Reed estate to collect $5,000 demanded in threatening letters.
 The Reed children haVo been under constant surveillance since the LlDdbergh Kidnapping case. Third Of Family Denver, Colo. Feb 13-(UP)- Charles Boettcher the second. held by kidnapers for ransom, is the third of q family whose wealth rose with the growth of the west. The Boettchcrs, Charles, Claude and Charles the second, grand father, father and son, control one of the greatest fortunes in Colo radO.
 It was Charles Boettcher who came to Colorado some GO years ago as an immigrant boy of IS from Germany. A few years later he became homesick, and returned to Germany. But the lure of the west brough him back.
 He went to Leadville along with II. A. W. Tabor, the "unsinkable' Mrs J. J. Brown, and others, who the fortunes they took out of gold | hHN bbFtI iubbVo LII tb"b bNVh camp.
 The German boy made no fur tune in that town where almost everyone was rich. His was not the flare of sudden rise, but rather the methodical building of firm foun- dationS.
 He did, however. make money. which he brought to Denver to es- tablish q hardware store. It was this store that gave him his start. He acquired much land. He had seen sugar beets growing in his l native Germany, and decided they | were worth q trial here. He tried them and today sugar beets are one of Colorado's greatest farm pro- ducts.
 Charles Boettcher also brought the cement industry to Colorado
 At IS. the elder Boettcher still is a financial and business power in Colorado. He is an official or di' dector of a dozen of the largest corporations in the state. His son Claude, is a member of the invest ment firm of Boettcher & Newton and an official or director of man! l other large firms In the state.
 The marriage of Claude to De