Evening star., 1935-05-29
RANSOM PAYMENT.
SEEN IN ACTIVITIES
Of WEYERHAEUSER
Father, Absent From Home,
Believed Closing Deal
With Kidnapers.
"DEADLINE" IS TONIGHT;
NEW LETTER ARRIVES
Officers Stay Away From Lumber
Kings Residence to Allow
Free Negotiations.
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preted activity around the j. +. Wey-
erhaeuser home as indicating the 1am-
ilv would pay 100000 ransom lor tne
return of 9-year-old George Weyer-
haeuser before the deadline tonight.
Retiring after midnight, the house,
hold from which the curly-halreo
lumber heir was snatched last FRIDAY
was awake and stirring again by dawn
John Philip Weyerhaeuser, father OF
the missing lad, was nowhere TO De
seen and was believed to be with j.
Rodman Titcomb uncle Of the missing
how and mentioned as probable con-
tact man for negotiations with tne
kidnapers. Titcomb and man oe-
lieyed to be Weyerhaeuser left the
humber family's home last night ano
did not return.
Their departure a few hours after
the family received a registered letter
recalled that the kidnapers said IN
the ransom note. You will be notl-
fed where to 60 when the time comes
Mrs. Weyerhaeuser, grief-strlcken
mother of the boy, also left her nome
for an hour last night in the lltcomo
automobile. She may have gone 10
Titcombs suburban home at Ameri-
can lake to visit her three other
children. The trio-Ann. l3: Philip.
IN and Elizabeth. 2-were rushed TO
the seclusion of her brothers home
shortly after delivery Of the note.
Activity Significant.
This unprecedented activity on the
eve of the deadline set for payment OF
the ransom was regarded as signifi-
cant. If the 100000 was not paid
on time harm" was threatened to
George by the kidnaper "Egoist," de-
scribed today by DR.. Harry r. HON.
man, Chicago psychiatrist. as "defl-
nitely homicidal. if trapped"
indicative of the tenSeneSS IN this
runnor- filled Puget Sound city was
call that sent the police flying squad
ron" to an abandoned house mile
south of the Weyerhaeuser mansion
early today.
They had received report some
one. perhaps the kidnap victim. was
pounding on the walls i'll a desperate
effort to escape Eight officers forced
their way into the building. followed
the sound of thudding blows to the
third-story attic, where they found
a loose window banging in the wind.
1t was Just one of many night
alarms. increasing as the hour Tor
payment of the ransom drew nearer.
The deadline for payment of the
100000 is 6:35 o'clock tonight.
Readiness of the parents to meet the
demand was shown in their reply to
abductors through the personal col
umns of a Seattle newspaper: I'VE
are ready. Percy Minnie"
Advertisement Appears.
That brief ad-the signal directed
by "Egoist, Egoist," in his kldnap let
ter-appeared again today in the Seat
tie t-Intelligencer.
There was no explanation from any
source as to whether any actual con-
tact had been made. or whether the
kidnapers had given any sign the boy
was safe. The kidnapers had threat
ened harm" to the boy if police or
newspapers we're even told of the abb
duction, or if the random demand was
not met in detail.
But the stir of activity last night
strongly indicated such contacts had
been made. Further signs OF COM
munication between the parents and
the abductors were seen in continued
bizarre signals from the Weyerhaeuser
porch-an open umbrella, sheet,
sweater-and installation of a new
telephone in the mansion with an
unlisted number.
The departure of the boys parents
from their home left the mansion tem-
porarily deserted by all except serv-
ants and Georges grandmother. Mrs.
Clara Walker, bedridden by paralytic
stroke. She has not been informed
Of the kidnapping.
Earlier &c men," the State patrol
and city detectives had deserted the
vicinity of the Weyerhaeuser home to
permith the abductors to make easy
contact.
They turned their attention to in
vestigation of two possible lookout
posts used by the abductors and
diverse rumors as to the curly-haired
boys whereabouts.
Aho ioohouS SPoto WHICH, tic SdHs
may have used as it plotted the alb
duction were in two vacant houses.
One afforded view of the Weyer-
haeuser home and the other of the
spot where George was last seen.
A recent fire in a vacant mansion
back of the timber family's home
showed some one had been there
within the last two weeks. A knot
hole in a boarded window afforded
q view of the Weyerhaeuser back gar
den for lookout who would be
screened from view from the street.
A STOOL from which dust and cob
webs had been recently brushed was
found in another house in front Of
window overlooking the street from
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