Evening star., 1936-12-28
$4,000 Ransom Demanded
by Masked Man Who
Seized Boy in Home.
ABDUCT0R BELIEVED
HALF-CRAZED PATIENT
Description of Early Morning Pa.
tron at Restaurant Tallies
With That of Suspect.
BY the Associated Press.

A police official, who declined to allow
the use of his name, reported today
the DR.. w. w. Mattson family has
been directed to make contact with
the kidnaper of Charles Mattson, 10,
some time this afternoon.
The official said the instructions
were included in the note left by the
kidnaper when he abducted Charles
from the Mattson living room last
night. He also confirmed that the
note demanded $28, 1000 ransom.
OF this, the official said, the kid.
naper demanded SIC, 900 in old bills Of
small denomination (two or five doll
lars) and the remainder in old bills
Of $50 or over. In each case, the
official said the bills were ordered
to be "old and wrinkled."
He refused to disclose any addi.
tional information about the ransom
note, or to say where the rendezvous
was set.
"Foot-by-Foot" Hunt Abandoned.
His statements came in the middle
OF morning previously marked by
no developments in the widespread
search for the missing boy. A sched.
uled "foot-by-foot" hunt through a
wooded ravine adjoining the Mattson
city estate was Cancelled shortly after
dawn.
The Mattson home was surrounded
by city police, who excluded all but
"a fo i1vy
of Justice agents and State police
made numerous unexplained trips
through the grounds.
In Seattle police and Federal op.
eratives checked fngerprint and other
criminal records. leading to an un-
confirmed report that investigators
had found the kidnaper's flngerprints
op the ransom note he dropped in
the Mattson home.
Identity Believed Known.
Seattle police were informed Tacoma
police believed they knew the kid.
| naper's identity from the description
furnished by Charles brother. sister
and Seattle girl friend of the family,
in the home at the time of the kidnap.
-
partly demented former patient of Dr..
MattSon.
Seattle police scanned a coffee cup,
saucer and water glass for fingerprints
and watched for a tan coupe after a
hamburger stand operator said he
waited on man answering ito a t."
the description of Tacoma,s latest kid.
naper.
Irwin York said the man entered the
sandwich shop on Capitol Hill about
am, gulped coffee nervously while
reading of the abduction of 10-year-old
Charles Mattson.
Kept One Foot on Floor"
He kept one foot on the floor as
If he were ready to run, and read the
paper as he drank" York said When
some customers came in, the man paid
his bill and walked out Immediately.
I grew suspicious and checked with
the description I had of him. It
Tailed to t."
Seattle authorities worked on the
theory Charles abductor may hide in
Seattle, awaiting ransom negotiations,
as was done last year by the kid.
napers of George Weyerhaeuser, then
9, of Tacoma.
City and State patrol cars continued
the careful check Of highways and
side roads begun last night as add.
tional privately owned boats nosed
through inlets of Puget Sound on the
chance the kidnaper might have Sc
creted young Mattson on one of the
dozens Of islands or in a secluded cove.
Searched Children for Money.
The masked intruder broke into the
living room, searched the children for
money. found none, then, snatching
the boy, cried
This Is something better than
money"
He threw the note to the floor, lifted
the boy into his arms and fed toward
the water front through the same
French window by which he entered. A
spaniel puppy barked fruitlessy at his
heels.
Charles sister, Muriel, IA, and her
friend, Virginia Chatfield of Seattle,
were sitting on davenport near the
window when the man first appeared.
William Mattson, 16, elder brother Of
the kidnapped child, was seated In a
chair at the other end of the room with
his back to the window. He was wear.
ing night clothes and Q bathrone.
Mask Slips From Face.
The children said the mans mask
slipped from his face while he was in
the room, enabling them to see he had
dark complexion and a heavy beard.
They described him as slightly built,
middle-aged, poorly dressed and wear.
ing dark trousers, q blue jacket and q
light tan cap.
Search at first turned to the water
front on the theory the kidnaper may
have had q boat beached below the
Mattson home for his getaway. The
$4,000 residence overlooks the water.
front.
The two girls told police they saw
the kidnaper run over the top Of the
terrace toward the waterfront.
They disclosed that Charles, Q boy
with an intriguing smile, had told
Of seeing . man In the kitchen Of
tho home only q few minutes pre-.
viously.
Sent there on an errand for the
other three, he returned with the
story Of having seen man lurking
In the dark. Brother and sister
laughed at him.
The family also said DIR. Mattson
surprised q man in his garage more
than week ago and found fully.
packed medical kit missing. William
Mattson asserted the kidnaper acted