Evening star., 1934-02-02
AICorn, Companion of San.
key, Captured Last Night
in Chicago.
C0NFESSES HIS PART
IN CASE, AGENTS SAY
Sankey Admits Plotting Second
Abduction of Wealthy
Denver Broker.

VI tCliS SAMMY anu iolis oousil Wy
Department of Justice agents for the
kidnapping of Charles Boettcher, I'd,
at Denver, Colo, a year ago. was cap
tured last night at Chicago, ILL.,, by
special agents of the Department of
Justice, Attorney General Cummings
announced today.
Alcorn. trapped through informa-
tion resulting from Sankey's spec
tacular arrest Wednesday. has con-
fessed his part in the Boettcher kid
naping, it was declared
j. Edgar Hoover. director of the
United States Division of Investiga-
ton. announced that Alcorn is the
last fugitive sought for the Boettcher
abduction.
Alcorn was traced on information
obtained from Helen Mattern, sweet
heart of Sankey.
Planned Second kidnapping.
Sankey, in Chicago, apparently
planned second kidnapping of
Charles Boettcher, ID, at Denver,
Colo. the Department of Justice an
nounced today, coincident with the
arrest of Alcorn.
Plans for the indicated second abb
duction of Boettcher were revealed
in colorful letter found in Sankey's
room by Federal agents. Unaddressed
and with blank spaces left in place
of names mentioned in the note, the
letter. justice officials are convinced,
was intended to be sent to Boettcher
in the immediate future
The letter speaks of double Gross
ing during the previous kidnapping
case and threatened that unless the
recipient of the letter paid an un-
designated sum of money without
notifying the police, he would be
killed.
Confronted with the letter, Sankey
confessed he had planned to kidnap
Boettcher second time. Details as
to date Of the proposed abduction
were not available.
In Sankey's Writing.
The letter was scribbled on a num-
Der Of sheets of paper in handwriting
identified as Sankey's. 1t follows:
When - was taken on Febru-
ary 10 you were told not to notify
the police. But you disregarded
those Instructions Now that 1 have
him safely hidden, you can do as
you please, but l will tell you here
that my life does not mean a thing
to me If I am caught or If any one
gets near or hid out - will be
the first one to die. You listened
double-crossed me, you delivered the
money O. K, but you were sure you
would have it back in your possess
sion in a few hours. I listened to
you & keep my word & released -
unharmed before you paid the money,
but never again.
You will do as I say this time g.
you will not wait II days either. for
II you do there will be no left
alive to return home. We will not
treat him as nice as We did before,
you and him have made plenty of in
nocent people suffer over that deal e.
we Will see that you g. yours suffer
this time unless you do just as 1 say.
And I want you to understand there
is to be no perfumed money nor no
new bills as they were last time. You
are to pay us in old bills of 10
and 20 d. only & will make the ar
rangements as to delivering it so there
will be no chance of you or your
police catching us at that time or
place as you tried to do before. will
give you 48 hours to decide if you are
to pay this or not. If you de-
eide to pay it. you are to put ad in
Post. But if you insert ad & do not
deliver money. we will kill -
without any preliminaries & call the
deal closed. I'm doing this more for
revenge than the money this time as
lie means nothing to me now.
Only One Way Letters.
4 told you people you would not |
always be protected as you were last
year. But you would offer a large
reward and would count the steps
Well I have you where I want YOU
now. If I see your ad I will write |
you final instructions where to leave |
money. But If money is not delivered |
as tell you. will be killed and
we will not try to collect again. There I
will be no letters back and forth this |
time. Only one-way letters, and you |
will do as I say and he will never be !
released before we have the money !
will inclose note from him now |
and another again with instructions |
to show you he is still alive, but you |
will have to take your own chance of /
us turning him loose alive after we
receive the money. No more gun bat
ties by taking your word. You are
dealing with the same person in flesh !
but not the same person in heart and !
mind. got out at Creely to shoot
it out with those bulls. 1 was ready |
to die then, but I wanted to crack |
down some of them before thew pot |