The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-21
KidnaperKiHerJohn
 finders Finds Caches
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Tt was a shallow dug-out, bare ly one and half feet deep Hoover said. Tt was hardly big enough for a grave.
 Ross ate and slept there for 14 days from September 25 or 26 tc October g. At rare intervals he was allowed out to walk and exer- else with Gray as his guard.
 Tt was the most dirty, atrocious place to keep man of Ross's age that I have ever Seen."
 During this time finders was ne- gotiating with Mrs. Ross in Chicago for payment of the ransom.
 "Anders and Gray posed Ross leaning against a bridge post with an October 3 issue of the Chicago Daily News in his hands," Hoover continued.
 Photograph Brought Ransom
 It was this photograph which convinced Mrs. Ross that her hus- band still was alive and caused her to pay the $50,O00 ransom.
 The day before Ross was killed his kidnapers moved him to the dug-out near Spooner.
 "The dug-out was well construct ed and was about five miles off country road deep in the woods, Hoover related. Tt was built leve, with the ground, about six feet deep 10 feet long and six feet wide. It was covered with heavy timbers.
 A heavy iron chain was fastened to one side of the dug-out, "appar- ently intended to hold victims that Gray and finders kidnapped"
 In Kidnapping Racket
 Hoover indicated that finders and Gray apparently intended to go in- to the Kidnapping business on 8 wholesale basis and that the care fully prepared dug-out was part oi their plan. The dug-out, he said apparently was built last summer.
 Borcia and his wife, Olivia, were kidnapped September - more than three weeks before the Ross abduc- ton.
 He said there was mo evidence so far to indicate" finders was con- nected with the kidnap-murder ot Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., in 1883, adding that he and his men had washed our hands of the Lind bergh case two years ago." when Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted.
 Both Shot In Head
 "We found the bodies of botE Gray and Ross in the dug-out, Hoover said. Both had been shot through the head"
 Hoover said the number of shots would not be disclosed until after the autopsy at Spooner which probably will not be conducted fol number of days"
 finders told him he killed Gray before killing Ross.
 "He told US they had an argument and that he knocked Gray uncon- scious into the dug-out," Hoover recounted.
 finders said he and Ross fell into the pit after Gray and that Ross was injured in the fall.
 "He said he shot them both to put them out of their misery, Hoover said. The G-Men added that he believed the story "hardly plausible.
 Cache of $30,0O0
 Hoover said the cache of 30,O0O ransom money was found near Walker, Minn., in a typewriter box almost covered with leaves and snow. This sum and the money recovered in California, he said, accounted for all of the ransom money. The re- mainder $5,598 - finders told him, finders either had lost in gambling or had been stolen from him.
 finders made frequent trips into Chicago between September 20 and October 10, the date on which he killed Gray and Ross, Hoover said and after payment of the ransom went on a tour from "coast to coast.
 "He went first to the timber cour- try in the northwest, near Spokane and Seattle, where he had worked Subsequently he was in Omaha, Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D. O., New Orleans and Miami. At the last point he visited the tropical park race track several times. Then from New Orleans he motored to Los Angeles where we caught up with him."
 
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