Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-30
KIDNAPPED BOYS
RETURN TO FAM|LY
IS BELIEVED NEAR
Theory Strengthened by
Relaxation of Tension
Among Authorities.
100000 RANSOM SUM
is READY FOR DELIVERY
High Police Official Advances
Idea Abductors and Boy
Are in Tacoma.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash, May 30.-Reports
the kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser
mad been contacted and 100000 ran
som was in a secret hiding place
awaiting delivery led to belief today
the 9-year -old lumber heir would be
released today or tomorrow.
Noticeable relaxation of tension
among authorities and a report two
contact men had been named by the
family lent strength to the theory the
boy was safe and soon would be re-
turned TO his distracted parents.
A friend of the Weyerhaeuser family
said the ransom-a 50-pound stack Of
10000 Federal Reserve notes in S., SIC
and $40 denominations-lsy in secret
hiding place ready for the "pay-off.
He said the money was finally accu-
mulated late Yesterday shortly before
the original deadline set for the ran
som payment.
Contact Story Persists.
Another reliable source told of the
appointment of the go-betweens. bott
friends of the family. The story the
kidnapers had been contacted was
not authenticated. but it was per.
sistent.
Also adding to the belief he would
be quickly returned, was the state
ment of a high ranking Tacoma police
officer who expressed the belief today
the curly-hsired boy had been
snatched by local talents" and was
still in the city.
The kidnapers are in some house
or apartment where they have been
living two or three months" said the
official who asked that his identity
not be revealed They are local
talent. or at least local talent With
some Eastern promoter egging them on
IF they're smart. and they must
he partly smart anyway, they
wouldn't go far with such widely
publicized child on their hands. And
they wouldn't try to hole up out
in the woods or where farmers would
quickly note the arrival of strangers
and would talk.
Kidnaper in Tacoma.
Those kidnapers and that boy are
right here in Tacoma"
simultaneously an insurance execu-
tive. who would not be quoted by
name, said Georges grandfather, J.
P, Weyerhaeuser. ST.. who died Man
is, eight days before George was
stolen, carried between 100000 and
100000 life insurance.
1t was suggested the abduction was
plotted after the elder Weyerhaeuser't
death, and the kidnapers banked on
quick payment of the insurance so
that large amount of cash would b.
readily available 10 meet their de-
mands. The amount of his insurance
previously had been placed much
higher in less reliable estimates.
Rumor is Discredited.
A discredited rumor was circulated
! that the boy already had been safely
returned to his parents.
/ The rumor was belied by the I'M
usual activity last night and early
today of the entire Weyerhaeuser
! family.
The parents we're believed to have
/ slipped out of their darkened mansion
TO reloin their three other children
/ Ann. -: Philip. 10. end Elizabeth,
/ Pin the seclusion of relatives
home on Gravelly Lake. where they
had been moved from their grand
mothers home
I Weyerhaeuser's brother-in-law. F..
/ Rodman Titcomb, named by a family
| friend as one of the two men who
/ probably will be Intermediates with
| the kidnapers. came out of the house
with a man and woman who could
not he definitely identified in the
/ darkness.
/ Elude Newspaper Men.
Titcomb entered his own car and
drove home. The couple. in the large
Weyerhaeuser sedan, eluded news
paper men and disappeared in the
direction Of American Lake, exclusive
Summer home colony site.
/ This reported departure Of the
Weyerhseusers for the country fol-
/ lowed night series Of automobile
rides to and from relatives homes
which began long before the dead
line set for the payment of the
ransom-6:30 o'clock last night.
Sources close to the WeyerhaeuSers
said two new contact men were named
after failure to complete negotiations
on time. The informant said the
boys father would not be present at
the meeting with the kidnapers. The
new contact men we're believed to be
Titcomb and Charles Ingram. assistant
general manager Of the Weyerhaeuser
Timber Co
Family Maintains Secrecy.
How or when they would contact
the kidnspers was family secret.
Secrecy was one of the prerequisites
laid down by "Egoist Egoist" in the
ransom note last Friday for the safe
return of the curly-headed youngster.
The note warned the parents harm"
would come to the boy if police or
the newspapers we're informed, or If
the money was not paid on time.
Police were called in Friday after
noon before delivery of the ransom
note. The family has never discussed
the case with newspaper men, and they
obviously tried to pay the 100000
demanded.
Yet in each of the three instances
the demands of the kidnapers we're
violated.
And repeated analyses of the ran
som letter have brought the conclu-
sion the persons who wrote or dictated
1t would become q ruthless killer If
thwarted or cornered.
DR.. A. C. Stewart, Tacoma psychia-
trist, expressed the opinion the letter
was written by at least three profess
sional kidnapers' of low-grade men
tally who would not hesitate to carry
out their threats.
"The text reads Is If one person sat
at . typewriter and several others