The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-27
Parents Of Kidnapped
Boy Become Frantic
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was replete with differences that
death would be the penalty of fall
ure to carry out instructions.
What purported to be copy Of
the ransom letter was published by
a Seattle newspaper today. 1t gave
the most detailed instructions and
was filled with admonitions against
any sort of slip. 1t ended
omniously: $50 just remember a
slip of your part is slip by us.
Don't do it,
Ransom Money Bills
The kidnaper wanted 100000 in
$50 federal reserve notes, $4,000
in $40 notes, and $4,000 in IS
notes. Apparently aware that gold
certificates trapped Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, kidnaper of the Lind
bergh baby, the kidnaper sternly
warned against their inclusion.
Authorities more and more con.
WINGED they dealt with an educated,
clever man, partly and perhaps
wholly mad, withdrew completely,
wishing to give the family every
opportunity to save the child. They
feared that the man who stole
George early Friday afternoon,
might carry out his threat.
John p. Weyerhaeuser. the father
of the child and the grandson Of
the founder of the vast Weyer-
haeuser lumber dynasty. waited at
the Weyerhaeuser mansion atop a
hill overlooking Puget Sound. With
him was the young mother. who
was reported bearing up well al
though she collapsed soon after the
ransom note arrived, and other rel
atives.
Signals From House
1t was believed the ransom note
had ordered signals displayed from
the house in such a way as they
could be seen from the sound. A
bed sheet was displayed Saturday
and part of Sunday from an up
stairs window. Later 1t was re-
placed with a blue sweater. This
was the means that was believed
to have failed. explaining this ad
in the Seattle Post Intelligencier:--
due publicity beyond our con-
troll please indicate another method
of reaching you. Hurry-relieve
anguished mother"
The ransom note had been sub
mitted to the best brains of the de-
partment of justice. whose agents,
more than score in number, wait
ed in Tacoma and Seattle and in
all the major cities UP and down
the Pacific coast, for the signal
from the parents that would set
them on the trail Of the kidnaper.
Educated Person Wrote Note
The note, it was surmised. was
the work of an educated person.
Agents pointed out that "Egoist."
the pseudonym of the .abductor
was not a word In the vocabulary
of uneducated persons. Ordinary
criminals and known kidnapers,
with one conspicuous exception,
would have used "swellhead" to
describe the same state.
That exception was Thomas III.
Robinson, Jr, who kidnapped Mrs.
Alice StolI, last fall In Louisville,
KY. collected $4,000 ransom and
has been fugitive ever since. Rob-
inson Is well educated and an
egoist--and. his friends and inti-
mates have told agents. more than
little mad.
Agents said the only reason for
suspecting Alvin Karpis. notorious
gangster and kidnaper, was in the
fact that he was believed to have
been in California several months
ago. Otherwise. the kidnapping bore
none of the earmarks of the Karpis
technique.
why Robinson Is Suspected
eve have much more reason to
suspect Robinson" one agent said.
And we can't say that he's the
man."
Agents pointed out that rampant
egoism invariably IL wrapped up In
certain psychopathic mentalities
that conceive and execute brutal
crimes. They recalled the extra
ordinary brutality OF Robinson to.
ward his feminine victim and the
diabolical nature Of Edward Hick-
man, who. kidnapped q child. MUIR
dered her, dIsmembcred the body
and was caught attempting to coll
lect ransom. Hickman signed him.
self 1.-THE Fox."
Federal agents explored the
rough contours Of the sound from
the air, and made several mysteF.
ious automobile trpia. But It was
clear they were making no effort
10 capture the criminal before no
returns his victim.
Clues were at a minimum. A
large yellow sedan, bearing Call
fornia license plates. was aoen for
several consecutive days near the
exclusive private noheols which
George and his sister attended =
few days before the klan . An