The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-28
KIDNAP HOAX
ACTOR-AUTHOR
TELLS omen
Milne Breaks After Long
GriIIing: Denies He
Had Aids.
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Tor which he had struggled in vain
Tor number of years.
Mr.. Hoover said Milne would be
arraigned by an assistant district
attorney and that the charge was
up to the district attorneys office.
Milne said he had no accomplices,
having put himself into the condi-
ion in which he was found-eyes
and lips tapped, wrists bound to
knees. He had appeared, then, as if
drugged by narcotics and had mum
Died in supposed delirium-"don't
SUCK that needle into me again"
Marks on his arms had appeared as
,hough made by hypodermic
needle. This, he said, was an eX-
ample of his histrionic art
Milne and his brother had been
living in furnished room in New
York. Caleb received a $40 a month
allowance from his grandfather.
Frederic is clerk employed by j.
P. Morgan 81 Co.
"Hellish financial affairs" caused
him to carry out the hoax, Milne
said
Worried Over Illness
Milne said he conceived the hoax
Dec. or 5, while worrying about
his inability to obtain work. He
mulled the idea over for three or
four days, determined definitely on
its execution about Dec. 8 and i'm
mediately began preparations to
put it into effect
He bought a pair of cotton gloves,
a tube of mucilage and a rubber
printing set at a 5-and-10-cent
store. The gloves, he said, were to
be used to prevent finger prints
in the manner of criminals about
whom he wrote in detective stories
he had attempted unsuccesSfully to
sell.
At home, when Frederic was alb
sent, Caleb painstakingly clipped
letters and words from newspapers
and pasted them on other paper to
compose the ransom demands he
sent later to Frederic and his
grandfather. The toy printing set
aiGed in the composition.
Saturday morning, Dec. ID he put
his plan into execution. He asked
his landlady, as he left The house,
the location of Oracle Square.
Mailed Letter, Package
He told her his grandfather was
seriously i'll in Philadelphia and that
he planned to pick up DIR
Greene" on Oracle Square and go to
the elder Mines bedside immedi-
ately.
He took with him a package con-
tanning his watch, some of his
clothing and an Albany newspaper
stained with blood, prepared for
mailing to his grandfather at a mo-
ment when the mute proofs" of vi
olence to a favorite grandson might
work effectively on his emotions.
Then he rode to Grand Central
Terminal on a subway and put a
letter addressed to Frederic, in New
York, aboard a train just pulling out
for northern New York. The trick
worked just as he had planned-the
letter came to Frederic early Sun
day morning postmarked at Pough
keepsie, N. Y, where railway post
office clerks had put it off for re-
routing.
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The package he mailed in the
terminal. travelling in the parcel
post classification, it arrived at the
palatial home of his grandfather in
Germantown two days later.
Milne said he went to Trenton,
N. D. by bus and stayed there until
the following Wednesday, spending
his time reading books in public
library. There he mailed a note de-
handing ransom to his grandfather
Wednesday he went to Lambert
vile, N. j., by bus. That night he
set out on foot toward Doylestown
and when about five miles from his
starting point, threw away his hat
and overcoat. He walked few
miles farther. choosing likely place
where he could be found.
There he taped his lips and eyes
with adhesive tape and tied himself
with rope he had brought along.
Then he threw himself into a ditch,
where he was found later by four
youths.
Convinced Hospital Doctors
1 They took him first to a nearby
Noctor'S home, then to the Doyles-
nwn hospital where his realistic
rformance of man suffering
nm hunger, exposure and the after
Tects of narcotics was. Federal
ice ents admitted, first class art The
hospital doctors apparently took his
boymptoms seriously and told Harold
Nathan, Hoover'S assistant, that
they would not be responsible if
they questioned him too severely.
Milne was kept under guard at
the hospital several days, then