Evening star., 1934-01-19
Evidence Found in Bremen
Auto Indicates Brutal
Beating.
ACE Government AGENT
RUSHED INTO SEARCH
Fears for Safety Raised After Note
Threatens Death Unless
5000, 900 Is Paid.

BY the Associated Press.
ST PAUL, January 19.-Blood stains
on both front and rear seats Of Ed
ward G. Bremer's automobile, today in
spired fears for the safety Of the 81
year r-old bank president. held for $780,
900 ransom by kidnapers who have
threatened him with death.
Splotches of blood smeared the cush-
ions of the car found in an outlying
residential district shortly after 10 am.
Wednesday.
Indications were the kidnapped owner
and head of the Commercial State
Bank, whose father Adolph Bremen, IS
a personal friend of President Roose-
welt, was brutally slugged over the
head when he resisted his captorS as
they invaded his car.
Then, presumably, the unconscious
man was dragged into the back seat.
A ransom note, left at the home
of Walter Magee, wealthy contractor
and friend of the missing man, gave
instructions for assembling 100000
for his freedom and warned he would
be killed If the police were summoned
or the newspapers notified.
Father Fearful.
Fearing his sons life was in jeop-
ardy, Adolph Bremen. chief owner OF
the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Co. here.
last night begged law enforcement
agencies to desist in their efforts to
hunt down the abductors.
No word from his sons kidnapers,
who we're expected to attempt con-
tact with negotiators yesterday, added
ho norto Y1t
the case. for which special detail
of investigators from Washington has
been ordered here.
simultaneously American Legionnaires
were called upon today to make an
active search for Bremen.
Edward w. Carruth OF Harrington,
Kans, national vice commander Of the
Legion, who spoke here last night, in
dorsed the plan. Both Bremen and
william Hamm, jr, who paid 500, 900
to kidnapers last June are Legionnaires.
Bremen attended Catholic University
and was graduated from George WASH
ington University, Washington. d. c.
Ace Agent Arrives.
Frank ]. Bake, star operative Of the
Federal Department Of Justice. arrived
here by airplane from Dallas, Tex.
further swelling the Federal forces
that are being modified here. No word
was forthcoming from the Government
men as to whether they would respect
Mr.. Bremer's request.
Meanwhile, the kidnaperS, who
"snatched'' their victim last Wednes-
day, were reported to have made no
effort to communicate with either the
Bremers or their friends. The family
was represented as prepared to pay the
full 100000 ransom.
The elder Bremen, the first man to
predict to President Roosevelt in Chi
cago that he would be the next Presi-
dent, is in Ill health, yet despite that,
he and an unmarried daughter, Miss
Louise Bremen, maintained long vigil
at their home last night, hoping the
kidnapers would communicate with
friends or relatives of the missing man.
Hopes Vanish.
As the hours dragged on, their hopes
vanished though the abductor's instruc-
tions to insert a two-line advertisement
in the Thursday morning edition Of the
Minneapolis Tribune had been followed.
The advertisement, in the personal
column, read:
I'VE are ready.
ALICE"
The note was interpreted as notifca-
ton that the family was ready to pay
the ransom.
The first news of the kidnapping,
however, did not leak out until yes
terday when details of telephone con-
versation between Walter MCGEE and
the kidnapers was revealed. Magee. a
wealthy st. Paul, contractor, Is fri.nd
Of the Bremen family.
"well. we've got your friend. Bremer.
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