Evening star., 1937-06-10
$4,000 DEMANDED
BY K|DNAPER OF
SOCIETY MATRON
Mrs. William H. Parsons Dis
appears From Long Is
land Estate.
RANSOM NOTE FOUND
ON AUTOMOBILE SEAT
Husband Returns From New York
to Find Wife Strangely
Missing.
BULLETIN.


STONY BROOK, N. Y, June 10
(Pl.-A blood-stained hatchet and
an ak, found on the poultry farm
Of William H. Parsons. gentleman
farmer, were rushed to New York
City for examination today as Par
sons was reported ready to pay
5000 ransom for the return of
his missing wife. Alice Mcdonnell
Parsons, 38, and prominent socially.
B. the Associated Press.
STONY BROOK, N. Y, June 10
Two theories-kidnapin or murder
confronted Government investigators
seeking to unravel the mystery today
of the disappearance of Mrs. Alice
Parsons, 38. New York social regis
terlte, from her fashionable North
Shore home on Long Island.
An eightState police alarm was
sent out.
Bolstering the abduction theory was
a note, penCiled en- cheap white ruled
paper, lnclosed in a cheap white
envelope, addressed to William H.
Parsons, husband of the missing wom-
an. Parsons is a Yale graduate. class
of 1910, and retired business man.
The note was unsigned 1t de-
manded $4,000 and contained the
sinister suggestion that police activi-
ty might mean death for Mrs. Parsons.
In support of the murder theory
was blood-stained ak. found on
the grounds of the Parsons chicken
farm, The investigators carefully
wrapped the ak and expected to
make an analysis of the stains. though
1t was suggested the ak might have
been used to kill chickens.
Finds Wife Missing.
The ransom note was found last
night shortly after Parsons, returning
from a trip to New York City and
finding his wife missing, notified the
State police barracks at Bay Shore, on
the south side of the island.
1t was addressed to Bill Parsons !"
The authorities would not disclose IT'S
contents, but it was learned from a
reliable source the note read:
Il have your wife. Bring s25 900 to
the Jamaica bus terminal within the
next "a hours and my men will meet
you and call you by name. Do not
bring any cops. If you do, Alice will
never speak to you again.
Mrs. Parsons, the former Alice w
Mcdonnell, was said to be worth
about 100000, of which she recently
inherited $4,000 Her husband, too,
was said to be Well-to-do.
Drove OFF With Couple.
The story of Mrs Parsons disap-
pearance came from Mrs. Anna
KupryonoVa, described by the police
as a high-born Russian woman, who
had worked for the Parsons family for
about four years.
Mrs Kupryonova, Assistant District
Attorney Joseph S. Arata of Suffolk
County reported, said a middle-ag ged
couple called for Mrs Parsons yester-
day morning at the Parsons home,
Long Meadow Farm, and that the
matron drove off with them.
The mystery deepened early this
afternoon when Mrs. Leona Newton,
former poStmiStreSs of Stony Brook,
told the police she had seen Mrs. Par
sons driving east through the village
about l 80 pm. yesterday, about two
and half hours after the time fixed
for her departure by Mrs Kupryonova
Mrs. Newton was brought to the
Parsons home and looked at the Par
sons car to see if it was the one she
had seen. She said it was not the car.
Mrs. Parsons, she said, was accom-
panied by another person, but the
police did not disclose whether it was
a man or woman
The road over which the car was
moving would take it to Orient Point
or to Montauk Point, roughly 35 or 40
miles away. From Orient Point a
ferry runs to New London, Conn.
Parsons had gone to New York City,
IS miles away, yesterday morning to
met two Russians at Tenth street and
Second avenue on the lower East Side
of Manhattan. The appointment with
the Russians, he told Arata, had been
made by Mrs. Kupryonova after he
had expressed desire to learn how to
make a Russian delicacy called Eng
lsh SQUAD paste.
Mrs. Parsons drove him to the rail-
road station at St. James, about 10
miles away, and promised to meet him
when he returned about sunset.
Parsons told Arata he got off the
troi Ctoy,v ProoLy Iitt1o oftor n
(See KIDNAPPING, Page A-3)