Evening star., 1937-01-13

certificate be filed within specified
time have been suspended, they added,
in order to give the Bureau of Investi-
CATION opportunity to capture the SuS-
pect.
The knife hunt and widespread In
dependent searches for the kidnaper
by the Washington State patrol and
local officers continued as flowers and
messages of coincidence poured in to
the family of the kidnapped boy, for
whom funeral services were held today.
Details of the boys wounds. learned
at a closely guarded autopsy. were
withheld entirely from Mrs. Mattson
and from the two remaining children,
William, is, and Muriel, IA. friends
said. No announcement OF what the
autopsy showed was made by Federal
agents or by physicians who con-
Quoted it.
Coroner Otto H. Mittelstadt OF
Seattle, who examined the body when
it was found Monday at Everett.
Wash, said he was sure the boy was
killed either last Thursday or Friday.
Mittelstadt did not attend the autopsy
in Tacoma.
Armed with definite, valuable clues,
officers hunted widely from northern
most Washington to the California
Mexican border for the kidnap-killer-
urged on by President RooseveltS
plea that the brutal crime be solved
quickly.
A man who became frightened and
ran away from newsstand was sought
in the vicinity Of San Bernardino,
Calf
Details of Autopsy Withheld.
Calf. Rumor linked the arrest Of two
men near Grand Forks, B. c., with the
investigation. Authorities said they
were arrested for illegal entry.
Federal investigators displayed some
interest In an unidentified man. re-
ported to nave acted queer" while
travelling on a bus ticket issued in
Kelso, Wash. and whose frozen body
was found in Central Missouri. He
was described, however, as so, older
than the age generally attributed to
the kidnaper:
The search was as intense as 1t
was wide. Federal agents checking
from house to house in the Tacoma
area.
Possess Definite Clues.
Department of Justice operatives
kept secret whether they sought one
or two men for the brutal crime. but
they had definite clues to guide them
toward the man who played the prin-
cipal role.
Known clues guiding the hunt were
the physical description of the kid
naper; the peculiar ink and type used
in the ransom note; the same Pc
culiarities repeated and. possibly,
handwriting, in two letters to DR..
Mattson; a plaster-o cast Of
his sock-covered shoes, tire prints Of
an automobile used to carry the body
of the boy and the peculiarities of
the killers personality.
Searchers sought a man who an
swered this description:
Weight. 145 pounds; height, feet 2
inches; complexion, swarthy; hair,
black; beard. black; eyes, brown;
speech, with slight accent; voice,
deep; age. about SO; when last seen
he wore dark trousers, q blue blazer
and light cap.
Authorities suggested that in all
cases of suspects investigators obtain,
if possible. samples of the mans
handwriting, his fingerprints and his
shoeprints.
They said the man might be show
ing great fear. possibly so much his
speech would be incoherent and his
actions irrational.
Missouri State highway patrolmen
prepared casts OF the shoes of the
unidentified man found frozen to
death yesterday near Kingdom, Mo.
The man leaped from a Transconti.
mental bus there Monday night.
At Indianapolis. Thomas Bridges, q
county employe, said he believes the
body is that of his uncle, Thomas
Bridges, rs. formerly of Rensselaer,,
Ind. Bridges said his uncle had OBJ
tanned an old-age pension at Rens-
selaer. Dispatches from Fulton said
a handbag believed to have been left
on bus by the man contained an old
age pension blank bearing the name
Thomas Bridges and also several let
ters signed by a daughter, Edith
Barker, OF Kelso, Wash.
(Oficers investigating the abduc-
ton Of 10-year-old Charles took casts
of footprints at the snow-covered,
brushy spot where the boys nude
body was found.)
The kidnaper was known to be
brutal, reckless upon occasion, as in
the actual kidnapping, and yet exceed
ingly wary, as in ransom negotiations.
He was at least eccentric, as shown
in his demand for $28, 900 ransom.
Possibly his f1ngerprints were found
on the ransom note, letters, the door
he broke in the kidnapping December
n or on the body Of the boy.
Rewards Total $1,000.
Hunt for the man was spurred' by
$11,0 900 in rewards offered for his
capture, the brutality of the crime,
the temper OF Tacomans and Presi-
dent Roosevelt's order to use every
available means to bring him to
justice.
The Federal Department Of Justice