The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-19
Kidnapped Youth h
 Very Bad Condition,
international distress frequency.
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 Mines brother, Frederic, arrived at the Doylestown General Hospital this morning, accompanied by two federal agents. He refused to dis cusS the case.
 Shortly after 8 a. m., Mrs. Milne, mother of Caleb, and her 16-year- old son, Aubrey, arrived at the hos pital. They were accompanied by federal agents.
 Mrs. Milne appeared to be crying. She refused to discuss the case. There were indications that plans were being made to take young Milne to his grandfather's home in Germantown.
 Agents Work On Clues
 Department of justice agents, giv- ing every indication of working on important clues, became evident in numbers soon after young Milne was found in a roadside ditch by passers- by early today. They believed the kidnapers still were in the Phila- delphia area, and, seeking to scotch rumorS and reports that there were more facts to the crime than ap- peared, announced that there was no doubt that the youthful scion of an old and wealthy Philadelphia family had been the victim of an authentic Kidnapping.
 Police, cooperating with agents, spread through the Philadelphia dis trict, watching all roads. Young Milne, guarded by federal agents, was believed to have given descrip- ton of his captors and of the car from which he was thrown.
 Reported Ransom Paid
 Milne was released a few hours after his uncle, Warren Milne, made 8 mysterious trip to swamps near Philadelphia. He was reported to have taken $25,0OO with which to bargain for his nephews freedom. Two ransom notes received by Mines grandfather, Caleb J. Milne, Jr., wealthy retired textile manu- facturer, had demanded $50,000.
 The Milne clan began gathering at the hospital as soon as young Milne was identified. He was semi delirious, mumbling over and over -'Milne-Milne-Milne."
 Authorities said Milne apparently had been kept subdued by narcotics and chloroform. There were about 25 small needle punctures in one of his arms.
 Don't stick that needle in me again, please, please" was one of distinguishable mumbles.
 Condition Is Bad
 Physicians after 8 thorough ex- animation said Milne was threatened with pneumonia and that his con- dition was worse than first believed. While his body bore no bruises, he was half starved and completely ex- hausted. He apparently had not eaten for several days.
 After being placed in a private room at the hospital, he dropped off into a troubled sleep. Federal agents decided they would not ques- ton hi muntil he awoke naturally.
 Mrs. Caleb J. Milne, 3rd, mother of the boy, sent word that she would arrive at the hospital today.
 Four motorists, Jack Keaser, Rob- ert Keaser, Max Ripkin, and Lance Smith, all of Philadelphia, saw a strange object in the roadside ditch near Buckingham. They stopped their car and found Milne, his legs bound and twisted up behind him, his hands tied, his eyes blindfolded, his lips taped shut.
 He was taken to a doctors office in Buckingham, then trasnferred to the Doylestown hospital, 25 miles from Philadelphia. There, after a careful examination, a hospital phy- Sician announced:
 "He cannot talk coherently due to exhaustion. We have found no body injuries but from the looks of his clothing he was thrown from a moving automobile"
 Robert Keaser was taken by Phil adelphia police to the palatial home of the grandfather in Germantown, where he told his story to the aged man who from the first had seemed not to take the Kidnapping too seri- ously.
 Disappeared Saturday
 Milne disappeared from his room- ing house in New York city Satur- day.
 The next day 8 package was mailed in Grand Central Station poStoffic in New York, to the grand father. It contained young Mines watch, @ blood stained newspaper clipping describing his disappear ance, and a crude not demanding $50,000 on pains of bodily harm to the captive of the writer. The pack age was delivered to the grand father Monday.
 Another note was delivered Tues day. Apparent negotiations fol- lowed. The aunt in Woodstock an- nounced she was convinced the youth had been kidnapped.
 Yesterday, the United Press learned that the kidnapers reduced their ransom demands to $25,000 and Walter Milne made his myster-