The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-01
WAS CHAINED,
M|STREATED
BY GANG
Farmer Finds Lad Wandering
In County After $500, 900
Ransom Payment

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haeuser boy. He is with me
now. What shall do?"
It was Detective Harold Thorn.
burg who answered the telephone.
Bring him to Tacoma i'm
mediateIy," TIL or n burg In
structed.
The detective flashed the news
to Department of Justice agents,
who Immediately checked the
telephone call and learned from
the telephone operator at Renton
and also a service station opera
tor named Ernie Bachlund that
they, too, had positively identi.
fled the boy.
Chained in Hole
Mr.. Bachlund likewise related
that the boy told how he had
been chained in a hole in the
ground" The boy believed his
cruel hiding place, similar to the
Arizona abduction hiding place
Of little June Robes, was near
Aberdeen, Wash.
It was nearly an hour before
Mr.. Boniza, in an old model T
Ford, made the trip from Renton
to Tacoma.
Screaming squads Of State high
way patrolmen sped out on all
highways to meet the rancher and
the Weyerhaeuser boy who was
sitting in the front seat and Smll-
ing.
The boy was delivered into the
arms of his parents by Mr.. BoniZa,
o grey-haired man.
Boy damned in Trunk
Mr.. Boniza found the boy In
his back yard near Issaquah,
Wash, after he had been released
for an automobile trunk into
which he had been damned by
the kidnapers for the last few
miles of their journey.
The rescue car drove into the
garage entrance at the Weyer-
haeuSer home.
A Federal guard rushed the dis
haveled boy up the stairs and into
the house.
Paul Mottau. former Pierce
County deputy sheriff, who knows
the boy by sight, positively recog-
nized him as he was rushed into
the house.
H. C. Bolcom, intimate friend
of the Weyerhaeusers and spokes-
man for the family since the alb
duction, said he would release
statement shortly but refused to
admit anyone or say anything
Immediately about the boys re-
lease.
A gray-haired unaSsuming man,
Mr.. Boniza was not allowed to
enter the Weyerhaeuser home af-
ter George had been safely de-
livered to his parents, and this ap-
peared to anger him.
Great Manhunt On
The child's safe return signal
lied the launching of a great
manhunt for the kidnapers.
Keeping faith with the anguished
parents, scores of "G-men" and
State and county police had OBJ
served officially a "hands-off"
attitude until this dramatic mo-
ment.
Secretly, however, they had
been carefully forming their lines
for a massed effort to launch
unified search for the "Egoist"
and his associates.
The search was organized over
the entire Pacific Northwest and
extended into Canada through
arrangements with the famous
"Mounties" of British Columbia,
which borders on the north Of the
State of washington.
The Coast Guard was in readi-
ness to watch the waters of Pu-
get Sound for an attempted get
away in that fashion.
Action of members OF the
Weyerhaeuser family prior to
word from Renton that the boy
had been found indicated that
they expected an early return OF
their boy from the clutches of
his abductors.
Crowds Immediately began
flocking to the Weyerhaeuser
mansion. Automobiles began
streaming from every part OF
the city to the home to await
the arrival of the boy.
Department of Justice men
jumped into high-speed cars and
zoomed out over the Pacific High