Evening star., 1935-05-28
"We Are Ready" Says No.
tice Printed in Seattle
Paper.
SECOND RANSOM NOTE
REPORTED DELIVERED
Search Reaches Across Border.
Karpis and Kelly Bands Seen
Possibilities.

Copyright. 1885. by the Associated Press)
TACOMA, Wash, May 28.-Ready
to negotiate with the kidnapers who
have demanded 100000 ransom for
the return of their 9-year-old son
George, Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Weyer-
haeuser, jr., spoke to the abductors
again today through the classified ad
columns of a Seattle newspaper.
The brief advertisement appearing
in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today
informed the kidnapers:
I'VE are ready. Percy Minnie"
The five-word message was the
exact wording which the kidnapers
specified in their ransom note deliy-
cred to the distracted parents by
special delivery letter Friday night.
six hours after George disappeared.
Sunday the Weyerhaeusers had ad-
vertised in the specified paper:
Ready to come Monday. Percy Min
ME" A second personal also ap-
pearing Sunday urged the kidnapers
to hurry and relieve Mrs. Weyer-
haeuser's anguish.
There was no sign Of unusual ac-
tivity at the Weyerhaeuser house to-
day, although it was Illuminated
upstairs until after l o'clock this
morning and Seattle automobile was
parked in front until that hour, when
a man entered and drove away.
Second Ransom Note.
Reports were current at police
headquarters a second ransom note
had been delivered to the family
made wealthy by lumber.
One of the Weyerhaeuser cars left
the garage late yesterday afternoon
and had not returned this morning.
The garage doors we're kept open all
night as If to be ready to permit
quick entry.
No mail is being sent TO the house.
1t is examined at the post office.
The search for the kidnap gang
reached across the international
boundary today. with officers pointed
to remnants of the Alvin Karpis and
Machine Gun Kelly gangs" as possible
suspects.
In one Of the few partially dis
closed moves in the hunt for the gang
that demanded 100000 ransom two
Tacoma detectives hurried 10 VAN
couver, British Columbia.
Vancouver police said the detectives
believed the kidnapires were effected
by members Of the two gangs. who had
banded together. British Columbia
officers refused TO disclose the identity
of the Tacoma detectives.
Boy Reported Seen.
The officers went north in response
TO a woman's report of seeing a boy
who resembled the kidnapped youngster
riding with four men in q travel
stained automobile last Saturday.
That was less than "a hours after
George was abducted from a Tacoma
street.
A similar tip met with failure to-
day when posse of officers returned
to Port Angeles, Wash. after an un-
successful effort to trace an automo-
bile containing boy resembling the
missing lad.
Although they found no trace Of
the machine. with its three men and
a woman. after combing all resorts in
the Lake Crescent area, Port Angeles
officers remained on the alert on the
possibility the kidnapers had sought
refuge in the sparsely settled forests
of the Olympic Peninsula.
simultaneously, authorities here be-
came even more silent in their move
ments, perhaps ip response to q plea
from the distracted parents
Offices of the captain of Tacoma
police detectives were closed to every
one but officers. The State patrol
locked doors leading to its headquar-
tiers. and for the first time since the
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