Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-10
Man and Wife Trapped by
Ransom BiIIs-Gang
Leader TraiIed.
IDENTIFIED
AS KIDNAPPING BRAINS"
Woman. 10. Caught by Quick
Work Of Clerks in Salt Lake
City Store.

Discovery in Spokane, Wash, NJ
the house in which 9-year- old.
George Weyerhaeuser was held
a prisoner by his kidnapers was
announced this afternoon BY !.
Edgar Hoover. director of the Fed
era! Bureau of Investigation.
Hoover said special agents To-
Gated the hideout today at 1909
West Eleventh street in Spokane
and have definitely established
mat the Weyerhaeuser boy was
held there in chains.
A cupboard which The boy had
described as his prison for two days
was found in the hideout.
At the same time Hoover an
nounced that his bureau will
prosecute any one found guilty
Of aiding William Mahan. for
whom an intensive search is
under way.
copyright 1898 bv the Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY, June TO-
Announcement that the death penalty
would be demanded for the kidnapers
Va SCOl lloCuOtl was il1dO|
today as &C" men and local authori-
ties pushed the Vests greatest man
hunt for William Mahan, named as 8
principal in the abduction, and made
preparations to return to Tacoma tun
alleged confessed members of the gang
captured here.
Officers of the Salt Lake CITY Police
Department who declined TO be quoted
in view of the secrecy ordered by the
Department Of Justice said Federal
agents planned to arraign Harmon
NJ. Valley, 24-year-old ex-convict, and
his l9year-old wife. here today and
leave with the prisoners by plane for
the Northwest Immediately.
Department of Justice men said
VALLEY and his wife, taken into Gus
tody after the woman attempted to
pass a IS bill identified as part Of
the 100000 ransom paid for the re-
lease of the 9-year-old Weyerhaeuser
lumber fortune heir. had confessed
their part in the kidnapping and i'm
plicated Mahan. former Idaho ana
Montana convict.
SI5,I55 in Bills Found.
The hunt for Mahan centered AT
Butte, Mont, where he fed yesterday
after deserving motor car in which
police said they found s15.155 OF
the ransom money.
The law saws death and II is
death We will demand Prosecuting
Attorney Harry H. Johnston of Pierce
County declared today at Tacoma.
He said the extreme penalty woulo
be asked under the Washington State
law regardless of the sex of the de-
PENDANTS.
Johnston said the trial probably
would be held in Tacoma in Septem-
Der and he declared there would bs
nc compromise on a lesser sentence
in exchange for guilty pleas.
Omen under the direction Of J
Edgar Hoover in charge of the case
at Washington. expressed confidence
Mahan would not elude them long.
Salt Lake police reported the al
legged confession which Department
of Justice agents obtained from VALLEY
and his wife indicated they and Ma
han we're responsible for the entire
kidnapping plot
Plane Passage Engaged.
1t was not known whether the
Valleys would waive extradition when
they are srraigned. But it was as
sumed this arrangement had beer
agreed upon in view of reports prepa-
rations we're being made by a Fed
eral party for transportation on the
Seattle-bo plane of United Air
lines. which leaves at 1l:l5 am
mountain standard time.
Despite reports of police officer
the Valley confession. it
became known today that search
for other possible members of the
mob was continuing throughout
the West.
Mahan was recognized by J. z.
Mooney. a city detective. but the sus-
pect escaped when the officer was
halted abruptly in his pursuit by g
bulldog.
Members of Mrs. Valleys family
disclosed today that Valley was the
son of foreman in one of the Weyer-
naeuser lumber mills in the Pacific
Mrs. Valley. who was taken into
custody when she allegedly attempted
% pass a SIS bill which was identified
Is part of the ransom money. is the
laughter of George Thulin, member
If an old Salt Lake City family.
Relatives said she had never been
ISee KTONApTNC pace a.