, 1935-06-02
ALVIN KARPIS
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ALVIN kAkPlN
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With the boy safe in the arms OF
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. p.
WeyerhaeuSer. Jr., 1t was affirmed
the abductors got the full amount
asked-S20.0 900. That is what the
Karpis mob collected in the Edward
q. Bremen KIDNAPPING at st. Paul.
Serial Numbers Taken
II also was disclosed that the Sc
rial numbers of all the federal re-
serve notes In the great pile OF ran
som money had been taken BY Of
ficers Ga violation Of one of the
abductors' terms) and could be
thus easily traced.
State patrolmen went after three
men and a woman reported TO have
fled from a Snoqualmie Pass auto
camp after having rented two cabins
there but failing 70 occupy them.
Another report said a bundle Of
the ransom notes already had
changed hands at Aberdeen.
Names from the lips OF the boy
himself we're believed by inveStiga-
tors to tell searchers what they
had suspected for days-that the
dread Alvin Karpis gang was their
quarry.
Harry. Bill and AllenC later ack-
nowledged by George to be Alvin F;
we're the names the snatchers used,
he said.
That recalled not only Karpis
but also Harry Campbell, notorious
lieutenant OF the gang. Officers did
not Immediately recognize Bill"
Apparently the abductors had a
four hour start on the hunting
army. for George said he was re-
leased about 4 a. m. and IL was
8 a. m. when he rode cheerfully into
the spacious grounds OF the Weyer-
hauser home for a joyous family
reunion after nearly eight days of
horrifying suspense since the kid
naping last Friday morning.
Your pa will pick YOU up" the
kidnapers told the lad when they
let him out OF a car on the country
road. They instructed him TO wait.
Walks six Miles
His dad didn't come. George set
out afoot. He trudged six miles
until he came to a farmhouse John
Bonifas, chicken rancher who has
10 children Of his own TO worry
about, opened the door.
I'm the little boy who vas kid
naped." said George.
BonifaS took the dirty. wet little
timber fortune heir into his rickety
automobile and headed for Tacoma.
Arriving at Renton. Bonifas
sought entrance to the telephone
company building there to call the
WeyerhauSer home. Mrs. Rachel
Snyder. the operator, refused 70 adj
NIT him because it was against the
rules. He would have to wait until
the opening time. 2 a. m.
Bonifas stopped next az a road
side filling station. He called the
Weyerhaeuser home but got no
answer.
Finally he called the Tacoma
police.
Like lightning the word flashed
out that little George WeyerhaeuSer
was safe and free.
In Tacoma John Dreher, veteran
golf writer for the Seattle Times,
Jumped into a taxicab and headed
out the Issaquah road. Some miles
out he came upon BonifaS with the
little victim wrapped in a blanket
the kidnapers had left with him.
Bonifas turned George over to
Dreher, who listened TO the little
boys exciting story a. they sped
directly to the home Of his parents.
The father and mother we're wildly
joyous after nearly eight days Of
agony occaSioned by the kidnapping
last Friday noon.
All Points 10 Karpis
The little victim said his uncle,
r. Rodman T1tcomb, had given the
kidnapers the ransom. They shack
led him nee in q while 70 keep him
from running away, but he said the
chains didn't hurt.
George said there we're six men
in the kidnap gang. Three Of them
called each other Harry, Bill and
AIlen-that must have been KarpiS
Alvin Karpis."
They didn't want to hurt me"
he said, because they kept saying I
was too valuable to hurt.
They told me ono we we're in
Oregon, and I remember once we
we're n Aberdeen" George added.
His story tailed almost fact for
fact with the deductions that point
ed toward the gang OF the arch
criminal Karpis. current public
enemy No. /: engineer Of the $780,
600 Edward @. Bremen kidnapping;
murderer. robber and possibly the
most dangerous gangster at large In
the United States today.
Georges Harry" also might well
have been Harry Campbell, badly
wanted lieutenant Of Karpis and
several Tacomans had reported Vol-
ney Davis, another Rarpis mobster.
in the vicinity about the time Of
the kidnapping.
Even the spectacular end OF the
kidnapping did not jar department
Of justice agents loose from their
silence but 1t was a foregone con-
olusion they were after Karpis again
with deadly determination.
He slipped through their fingers
before.
Officials expressed confidence the
kidnapers would be captured. but
| declined 10 ATTEMPT to say when.