Evening star., 1934-02-01
SANKEY IS QU|zzED
IN L|NDBERGH CASE
Handwriting of Notorious
Kidnaper to Be Checked
by Experts Here.
Continued From First Page.)

| jr., both of st. Paul, but the authorities
pushed their grilling of him in the hope
OF uncovering some new facts, particu-
larly ON the Lindbergh case.
I Sees Lindbergh Link.
From st. Paul, County Attorney M.F.
Kinkead was en- route to Chicago to aid
IN the investigation. Kinkead an
nounced early last month he had found
evidence which he said indicated that
Sankey had some connection with the
| Lindbergh abduction
| Handwriting experts, Kinkead said.
had found similarity In the Boettcher
and Lindbergh ransom notes and a
| telephone call from Minneapolis to an
undisclosed town in New Jersey-scene
OF the Lindbergh kidnaping-had been
uncovered The call, he said. was made
from gasoline station, by a man who
| answered Sankey's description, 10 days
| after the Lindbergh baby was seized.
The prosecutor also accused Sankey
of scheme to abduct Jack Dempsey
| and Babe Ruth, adding that evidence
to support his allegation had been
found at the Sankey ranch.
When advised in New York Of
| Sankey's capture, Joseph B. keenan,,
special attorney general and expert in
| end of the man who is really Americas
| public enemy No. IA remark which
Chlcago police interpreted as meaning
| Keenan, suspected Sankey of having
had part in the Lindbergh affair.
Surrenders Quietly.
| Sankey was taken without a strugple.
| He was unarmed, but several pills, be-
lleVed to be poison. were found in his
possession, and PurviS said the prisoner
seemed detected and had remarked he
was sorry he had not swallowed them.
Later, in the captured mans apart
ment the investigators found tin box
containing $4,000 in Sl00, 5000 and $40
bills. and $50 in ST bills.
| A woman, who said she was Helen
Matern, but who denied she knew
Sankey's true identity, was arrested in
the apartment.
1t was learned none of the bills WAS
! identified as part of the ransom money
which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh had
paid.
For two weeks the barber shop at
! 1923 North Damen avenue. where
/ Sankey was found, had been under
surveillance, after the investigators
learned Sankey had been receiving his
mail there under the name of w. E
| Clark. Yesterday when he appeared
for a shave the hadn't had one for
! days because his face was sore due to
the removal by electricity of four
molesl. he was seized without difficulty.
Thomas F, Curtin, Chicago police
sergeant, wrote the following account
! OF sankey's arrest for the Associated
| Press:
| My name at the top of this piece
doesn't read right to me, because there
were two others of us in at the kill
Patrolmen John M. Lynch and Edward
j. Donovan-and the capture itself was
| the result OF the work of the whole
| Federal department here under Melvin
Purvis more than ours alone We are
| Chlcago policemen especially picked to
work with Mr.. Purvis.
Can't Tell the Whole Truth.
| Il can't tell the whole truth about
now we caught Sankey. I have to use
that ola police allbi to the newspaper
boys: We had information
I'VE learned that Sankey had been
getting mail under the name of w. E.
| Clark at barber shop kept by a Will
| liam Mueller, so We watched the place
! for two weeks
Today he walked in there We knew
| he had sworn never to be taken alive
and we took plenty of precautions. We
| let him get all set in the BARRIERS chair.
| with the big sheet wrapped around him.
J Then we stepped in, with guns in
cur hands, while the BARRIERS back was
| turned. Donovan laid back, with two
i pistols, ready for any kind of a break.
Lynch and 1 walked up. one on either
J side, and pushed the muzzles of our
guns up against Sankey's bald head.
Il said: Don't move, Verne We're
DOllCe OfncerS. You re under arrest
Wasn't Carrying Gun.
with that. he started up and we
| grabbed him and flung him back on
the chair. We gave him a quick frisk
and he didn't have gun. Then we
made him stand up. l warned him
again about giving us any argument.
| That amt what I was going to do
when started to get up he said. I
| didn't know if should give up or not.
was thinking of running to make you
shoot. You might as well kill me any
way
so We took him into the back room
of the shop and stripped him, right
| down to the hide, and went over every
| bit of his clothing. He had no weapons,
| but in the hem of his overcoat we found
half dozen pills He said they were
! poison and he intended to commit sui
eide, but he didn't get a chance to take
| them.
Glad to Finish Job.
"Then we brought him in. The bar
| ber didn't know him. And that few
minutes wound up about six months OF
long, hard work we have put in looking
| fer him. We knew he was plenty tough.
and we figured we'd have to shoot 1t
out with him when we got him, but 1t
didn't break that way. 1t was big re-
lief to get it over with. because we are
| not headline heroes and Sankey Is
good shot.
"A couple of times we missed him py
as little as an hour in chasing him
| around among the flats and apartments,
| rooming houses and hotels all over the
city. We kept checking registers,
| running down tips and we certainly
covered lots of ground.
He had plenty of money. He SAID
| he got $50 900 out of the Boettcher Kid
naping and $4,000 Of the Bohn money.
"The four moles on his face are what
really caused his capture. He had them
removed by an electric needle and
couldn't shave for about two weeks be-
cause of the wounds. He went to the
shop a week or so ago, but 1t was too
early. Today the last scar healed over
and he went to get his shave. And we
grabbed him."
SEEK SANKEY REWARD.