Evening star., 1935-06-02
Thrilling Story of Kidnapping Is Related
By Boy Victim on Way Home in Taxi
Continued From First Page.)

ing there. A man was driving and an
other, the one they afterwards called
Alvin. was standing on the curb He
said Say don't know which he
called me, SON or boy; Say he said,
where Is stadium way?
Il told him I didn't know and he
came over toward me and said I was
a shy fellow and he grabbed Ele and
put his hand over my mouth and
pulled me into the tan sedan.
Covered Him With Blanket.
"Then he put me down in the back
and covered me with this blanket
This same blanket that you are Sit
ting on. 1t certainly is dirty, isn't
it? And then We drove and drove and
drove.
Il don't know where we went to,
but they told me I wouldn't be hurt
if I didn't yell out, and didn't want
to be hurt, so kept my mouth shut"
The enthralled interviewer wanting
to get the yarn in the regular order,
asked:
And did they make you sign the
back of that envelope?"
three times. Once OH that envelope,
once OH the ransom note (the inter-
viewer didn't quite get this reference)
and once I signed my name at the
bottom Of the blank paper
''All right. George" We encouraged
him. NOW that we've got that
Strengthened out. where do we go
next?"
Kidnapers Used Two Cars.
"Oh, but 1 want to tell you first
about the two cars and the names OF
the men. One was tan sedan; that
was the one I was kidnapped in: the
other was a big. gray Buick. That's
the one that carried the trunk.
Now hold on, everybody, we'll be
coming to that trunk in the next
couple of thousand words.
The men told me there were six
of them in the kidnapping, but 1 never
saw more than three; they called one
another Bill, Harry and Allen"
Allen" I interrupted, sure OF
that?"
"Oh, no. that must have been
Karpis-Alvin Karpis. I remember
now that sounds more like it-Alvin.' y
What do you know about Karpis?'
I asked, surprised.
Why, hadn't 1 told you about that?
They let me read all the newspapers
about myself"
And George Weyerhaeuser laughed
out loud as the incongruity OF the
situation and a look of amazement
sDread over nv face
Why, yes. They let me read all
the papers. I couldn't read everything
of course" And he again laughed
audibly.
But could read all the big lines
at the top Of the papers. And / could
read a lot of other things. too.
1T was all about my kidnaping!"
"And YOU remembered the name OF
Karpis?"
Sounded Like Allen.
"Yes. that wasn't hard to read and
remember. only didn't hear them
call him Karpis. you know, they al
ways called him what sounded like
Allen. but it must have been Alvin.
I never heard Alvin before.
"All right" said George, what
else do We remember? Did they ever
hurt you or threaten to hurt you,
and were you sick at all. and did
they give you enough to eat and was
the food good?"
They always gave me all I could
eat; I ate the same things they did.
and they liked good things to eat.
Yes, sir. they treated me fine.
They only hurt me once. and that
was when one Of them-there were
three of us in the car now"-the didn't
explain where the third man was
picked up, and, darn it, forgot to ask
him).
Too Valuable to Hurt.
lone of the men lifted me by grab
bing me under the arm; I think
heard them say We were near Aber-
deem. and 1t hurt me. and l said, Say,
don't you hurt mel And what do
you think he said when I said that?
He said: Young man, you're too val
liable to hurt"
AS Friend Weyerhaeuser said this
he looked up at me with just a bit
of quizzicalneSs-if that word goes
I'm writing this in hotel room with
only a Gideon Bible at hand and a
dictionary probably not nearer than
the public library.
The boy sensed he might have Of
Tended me. with what. to put it in
plain language. might be construed as
bit OF boaStfulness.
"Yes. I understand" I said quietly.
And George. my friend. seemed re-
lieved to know that I did understand
what he was trying to explain. He
was not trying to be conscious of all
the things they have said about the
Weyerhaeuser millions. I had a feel
ing that after that exchange we both
understood one another better.
Policemen in Other Car.
"And so they never hurt you nor
made any threatS?" I gently enlarged
on this phase of his detention by the
kidnapers.
mo, they never hurt me little bit,
except the time told you. down near
Aberdeen, they tried to lift me out of
the car or something. I think there
thing, but I don't know just what 1t
was.
"Oh, yes, I remember now, it was
something about another car with po-
licemen in it. They were excited"
Having hit on this general idea Of
his statement, Wayfarer WeyerhaeuSer
remembered something else again on
this point.
I'VE stopped one night near a river,
and one of the men took me up in the
blanket; took me out of the trunk
and carried me toward the river.
"'Say, mister, you're not going to
throw me into the river and drown
me, are you?' asked
And do you know, mister"
which reminded me that hadn't yet
introduced myself, and so I told him
it was Dreher, pronounced like
prayer" and he smiled, but I knew
he never got it.
Few people do the first dozen or
two times. Anyhow, I told him I was
a lifelong friend of Marfield CAL
CONS, and so if he has anything
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