V I 'J THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUE SDAY MORNING JUNE 11 1935 IFT CLIMAX FORECAST IN ABDUCTION Old House Used Grandfather of Mrs Waley Change Asked Arrest Suspect Expected As Kidnap Prison Tells of Visit to His Home Early InParolePlan s As Net Drawn by State and Government Found in Spokane Of Trio in Kidnaping Case Roosevelt By Law Authorities Tightens onAlI Sidesiumuii bum of-TK-ird “ -- (Continued (ran Pan Intensive Search for Grant Spreads Into Washington Onel June search for W 8 Grant alias William Mahan sought u one of the Weyerhaeue-e- r boy kidnapers centered in thii area tonight on a report he was believed teen thii afternoon at Dayton S3 mile from here and another report tonight that a eedan" had "large been lighted at Pasco BO mile to the west The deecriptlon of the sedan was similar to Jtha one which had been in Dayton to the northeast of here in the afternoon At that time a restaurant proprietor by WALLA WALLA vcry movement ot the department of justice agents in Salt Lake City The Waleys were reported to be held at the department of justice offices in the federal “incom-municad- building I — A tense o" ' Heavy guards were posted around the offices as the relentless grilling of the two suspects apparently was going Nrf one was allowed on the fifth floor of the forward building where the offices are located ft was Impossible to determine if the Waleys had "talked” or what additional information had been gleaned — — — from them At 2 p mr Monday It Was learned ’three min were rushed Into a side door of the federal building and were being guarded in the fifth floor headquarters It was not known whether the men presumably suspects in the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping were believed 'to be members of the by the federal kidnap gang or merely wanted for questioning r agents Holding of the trio was believed responsible for the cancellation of a press conference by E J Connelly ace of the here Four men and two women also were to be under arrest but confirmation was lacking Later Monday it was discovered that the government men still are trying to trace Clifford JE Mcllrath formerly talesman for the Paragon Printing company in Salt Lake City Whether Mcllrath is being sought in connection with the kidnaping or some other case could not be determined One report said he was one of two men accompanied by a blond woman who were last seen In a 1929 Cadillac sedan dark-color- j 10 OT) the name of McGerkin phoned Sheriff C A Woodward here he believed one of its three occupants might be Grant Sheriff Woodward said that McGerkin was positive in the identification after looking at a newspaper giving a description f the man when he had left He ad not recognised the man however until he was gone The report from fasoe wae tele- that the sedan had started across the long Snake river bridge east of there but had then turned back It w as then reported head-- : ed for Wallula due south down the Columbia river week could not be determined but It was expected that little time will be lost before they ar arraigned Location of the “hideout” house in Spokane resulted to prevenf the news despite" determined efforts ©“G-men- ” from leaking out press dispatches said The house a gabled structure corresponding to the description given by little George Weyerhaeuser is situated at 1S09 West ‘Eleventh treet Spokane In it was found a cupboard like the one in which George was locked at night Neighbors soon identified pictures of Waley his wife and Grant lias Mahan as three persons who had rented the house A grocery store keeper and an ice man both identified the trio y Elmer Cawthon the Iceman and who lived next door to the kidnap house said he had talked with Waley and had seen him a number of times Two women and a little girl also were seen at the house he said Neighbors said they had not seen the occupants since a day or two before the Iddnaped boy was returned 'The house was reported to have been rented subsequently to another tenant but the press dispatches said had taken It over and were examining every nook and corner for dues Newsmen were forbidden entrance With the search widened to include many suspects it appeared likely that at least two of the “various and sundry persons” named in the warrants are believed to be with Grant alias Mahan in Butte or vicinity where police have laid a trap ru-loot- ed “G-me- i Holds Superior Court Warrant Police here were asked to look for the man by 0 K Bodia chief criminal deputy sheriff of King county Seattle Wash who said he holds a superior court warrant for his arrest The message also said similar warrants pre held for 0 F Duncan and D W Dawes Mcllrath’s companions The message was received Saturday ' The principal Utah development was brought to light In Ogden where Julius Thulin grandfather of Mrs Waley told of conversations with both the girl and Grant or Ma' A ban as Mr Thulin know him several made visits to Ogden last and wife his Waley week Mr Thulin said while Grant made his first visit Frl t Early Arrest Predicted day and returned again Saturday night Chief ot Police Jere Murphy of Butte predicted an early When Grant learned ot the Waleys arrest he cursed asked if they had got “all the suitcases” and then left hur- arrest of Grant possibly with his “moll” and a man con' riedly Mr Thulin said The suitcases to which he referred federate Murphy and department of justice agents said it would later were reported to have contained only old clothing but the belief was expressed that there were other suitcases con- be “almost impossible” for Grant long to elude the posses ' The “lady friend” sought with Grant was reported to taining ransom money ( have helped Grant in 1928 when he was sought for an Idaho Told Grant of Arrests bank robbery while the man confederate was said to have Mr Thulin said he told Grant of the Waleys' arrest ne been seen with Grant In the latter’s automobile just before learned ot it he said when federal agents called at the Salt the 'machine was abandoned The witness said they were Lake City home of his son and asked questions about Mrs wavthg their arms excitedly and appeared ta be quarreling Belief was expressed in some quarters that Grant took 'Waley ” in an effort to elude his pursuers Mr Thulin expressed the netief that Grant had left im- to 42S was for the In the meantime that the automobile conversation discovered Butte It their after driving mediately The car containing the used by Grant and abandoned in Butte with the ransom miles in possibly nine hours ‘money was found in the Montana city early Sunday but money was purchased In Salt Lake City March 30 from the Carleson Motor company 533 South Main street Grant had escaped In notes been Salt T C Dangerfield salesman and a woman 'salesman had ransom that passed Discovery Lake City as early as last Tuesday resulted with Inform-tio- n sold the machine to a man giving the name of A T Davis supplied by Miss Bons who was a school mate with Mrs and whom they subsequently identified as Grant The idem tificatlon was made after Mr Dangerfield and the woman Waley at the South junior high school in 1930 viewed pictures of Grant “G-me- ' ‘ ‘ ( " Met Mrs Waley by Chance Miss Bons said she met Mrs Waley by chance In the Woolworth Five and Ten Cent store the first time she hid seen the woman in months said Mrs Waley While they were together Miss Bons cashed four $10 hills in as many stores each time buying an inexpensive article and receiving a large amount of change They were together about an hour and a half Miss Bons said She added that she thought nothing of the incident at ‘the time although later she recalled that Mrs Waley had been “nervous” and had talked of the Lindbergh kidnaping - case She made no mention of the Weyerhaeuser case how ever Miss Bons said Records at the South junior high school disclosed that Mrs Waley then Margaret Thulin attended the school from 'September 1930 until 1932 when she was graduated In September of 1932 the record showed she obtained a trans fer of her record to the East high school but apparently never attended the latter school 1 ‘ - - - Death Penalty Provided ' the extreme penalty was voiced in Tacoma by Prose- -- Q residential district With Its gable and the cupboard in which George was locked at night iust as he described it when he was released near Issaquah Wash early on th morning of June 1 the house stands dirty and and to it appears to havs bssn passers-b- y long vacant And soon after its discovery neighbors who had seen mysterious persons In the dwelling identified one of the men as Harmon M Waley arrested at Salt Lake City in connection with the kidnaping his wife Margaret who also was arrested and W S Grant alias Wil- li who eluded police at Butte Mont in a dash from an automobile in which he left more than 915000 of ransom money Identifies Both Mrs T L Locket operator of a grocery store in the neighborhood identified both Waley and Grant from pictures taken from files of thi Spokane police department ‘They bought groceries frbm me frequently” she said "These two men and two women— one of them dark and pretty and the other blond and not so pretty” Although the pictures of Waley and Grant shown hers were taken severil years ago sha Insisted she couldn't have been mistaken “Those are the two mm who bought my groceries” she declared Mrs Locket offered a humoroua sidelight in her relations with the men Complain of Theft "They complained that their house had been entered while they were away for about a week and somebody stole some milk bottles” she said "They complained a lot about ln the class of a neighborhood which a thing like that could hap- pen” Elmer Cawthon an Iceman who lived next door to the house In which the department of justice dentlfled as George’s prison frt' quently saw a man he Identified as Waley and upon teveral occasions talked to him About two weeks before Easter Elmer related two women and a little girl named Wanda came to the house at 1509 West Eleventh avenue "They left for the first time a few days after Easter (April 21 George was kidnaped on May 24) and were gone until three or four days after Eaater” the Iceman re- ing of Implicated kidnap- George Weyer- haeuser in Tacoma came to Utah last week and ailed at the home of Julius Thulin 71 grandfather of Margaret Waley the elderly man (Continues from Pots One) he brought with him from Washington he saw no caller axcept members of tha family who dropped in to the office occasionally WASHINGTON Jun 10 (D — Complete aolution of the Weyer-haeuakidnaping caae— with the probability of new arreata— waa the goal tonight of relentleaa said Monday in Ogden He added that W S Grant alias William Mahan alias A T Davis now sought in Butte Mont called at hla home as late as Saturday at 9 p m When the fugitive called Tbulln said he told them of the arrest of the Waleys in Salt Lake City whereupon Mahan threw up hie hands muttered ‘the damn fools” and left Immediately In hie car— a green Ford Mahan Is believed to have iped to Butte- where he was er “G-me- eombing the northwest for W S Grant and possible confederates J Edgar Hoover director of jus-ffdepartment agent kept In air most continuous contact with tha hunt by telephone from here During the day h summoned newsmen to hia office to announce the location of th "hideout” house At Spokane whers George Weyerhaeuser waa ce - sighted Sunday The suspect's grandfather recounted the movements of hit granddaughter and her' husband through the week and said he suspected they may have been Implicated In the kidnaping He added that he knew Waley'e stepfather was employed In the Weyerhaeuser lumber mills and was suspicious of the visitor Called At Homo Margaret Thulin Waley called at her grandfather’s home last Monday at 11:30 a m Thulin said adding that "she was well dressed and I couldn’t understand this because they were on relief In Salt Lake City "When Margaret arrived I asked her where her husband was” the grandfather continued "She told me aha had just corns from the northwest and her husband would be on hand shortly "Harmon arrived about 50 min' utes later We Invited them to have lunch and after lunch he left later sending a cab to take Margaret to the depot I don’t know whether they went to Salt Lake City together or not "Early Friday morning about 5 a m someone rapped at our door My wife woke me up and I went to the door The man there asked for Hannon Waley and I told him Waley didn’t live at this Address That's funny' the man said I have a suitcase to leave here If this Is 344 Seventh street’ Left Suitcase "He came to the house and left the suitcase I asked him hts name and he told me it waa Davis It wm a large suitcase 1 went to Salt Lake that day Waley’s ‘I Highly Important? n moment” He disclosed simultaneously that continued grilling at Salt Lake City of Harmon M Waley former conviot and his wife Margaret arrested Saturday In th Weyerhaeuser case and said to have confessed had resulted In location of the Spokane house where little George was concealed Hoover laid just tea minutes before he made his announcement th hideout had been "definitely Identified by the cupboard whert th JuUui Thulin little boy waa kept” to find and tried my granddaughter From Sopkane came word that home I left word at my son’s just a George had aaid tha house (George Thulin 460 East Fifth had two gables South street) to have her meet me T Be Removed at the temple grounds She didnt The director said Waley and hla appear and I went back to my wlfa would be removed to Tacoma son’s home Harmon and Margaret seen of tha crime "in due time” arrived later He declined to say whether the ac"I told them that a Mr Davis had cused would face prosecution by Left a suitcase for them at my state with a possibility home and Harmon immediately re Washington of the death penalty or under th plied that he had been to Ogden and Lindbergh act with a life term as received it He had brought the the maximum because George was suitcase to my son’s home Friday returned unharmed afternoon It contained a lot of old But Hodver emphatically warned that anyone aiding Grant-lin- ked (Continued on Pun Ten) by agenta with the abduction before he fled from Butte Mont officers —would fact the full fores of th federal law He said: "Any person who lends any assistance tor Grant or harbora him In any way will be prosecuted vigorously under the federal harboring Don't Believe It Cries Las Vegas Officers Asked Stricken Parent of to Stop Car Speeding From Coast Kidnap Suspect statutes” Tha minimum (entenc gray-haire- I ' under a it conviction of "harboring" was said to ba "two years and a fins” In Line With Policy This announcement was in line with the Justice department’s policy of making kidnap fugitive “too hot even for contact with underworld channels usually open to an escaping criminal” “W art yriuihg every connection” Hoover replied when asked for details in the wide search for Grant who escaped capture leaving behind an automobile and $13000 of the $200000 ransom money Hoover said “23000 official LO'i lated "They must havs returned In the night because none of ui remember seeing them come back “hitch-hikingSeemed Mad TACOMA June 10 (IP)— BrokenLAS VEGAS Nev June 10 (UP) was in the yard one day doing 1 soma work for a neighbor and this hearted Mrs Cleo I Bonney 60 Peace officers of desert towns fellow who looks like Waley came d mother of Harmon M from Victorville Cal to Las Vegas over to talk with me He mentioned held as a member of the for a NevJonightwere watching their having been away on an Easter Waley two men and sedan whleh carrying WeyTtidnaped green George He somemad seemd about jang trip a blond woman who are believed thing and asked me if I saw any- erhaeuser cried 1 don’t believe it connected with the Weyerhaeuser body around tha house whils they I can’t understand it” when kidnaping case were away He said somebody had told here son wife his and today her Deputy Sheriff Stanley Snedecker been in houso and taken hla overin Salt Lake of Victorville reported the car had coat and a coat belonging to his had been arrested City (identlfieatlon orders) left here by wife” Mrs" Bonney who has been W town of Yucca City today It airmail at 6 a m today for points While of department justice Paid Cash for Machine since January from high blood pres- was followed by another machine in the west and northwest” where agents who locked themselves Inhas been on relief rolls for ha said Grant waa being sought Grant Mr Dangerfield said represented himself as a side the house refused to talk ether sure some time department of public E P Dunn chief of the Joseph ForiunateV w had a photoIt man waa if the said police Waley welfare officials said stove salesman and paid $85150 cash for the car a gray of justice agents for graph of tha man in our files here” department to was if learn probably attempting Asked early today if she would the Southern Pacific coast area he explained “We started running Ford V--8 sedan' after failing to arrange a tradein police or other officers had been be told her son was arrested Charles telephoned Sheriff Joe Keate of the I O’i at 11 o’clock last The automobile which Grant sought to trade in was a around the house and an occupant Las Vegas asking him to block and they were speeding away night Torges engineer from The of jus- of the old and gray y house roads leading into Nevada green Bulck sedan A tar of that description has figurci tice work of department here early today” to the discovery In agents leadihg she which the mother llvea said largely in the kidnap search for several days Sent Out Patrol of the house was done In absolute Kept Secret not Air Dangerfield said the transaction was completed with ecrecy Wayne - Bezona United would sent a squad As quickly as details of th kidKeate Immediately Later however gorges said Mrs cash after Grant had said that the tradein allowance was States marshal hers learned first Bonney had overheard hushed con- of deputies to patrol roads from naping wers learned ' from tha the discovery from a newspaper versations and asked what had Into NeVada San Ber- Waley’a at Salt Lake City Hoover hap- California too low and that a friend had offered him a better price He of man he said was nardino county officers meanwhile disclosed his agents dictated them to son her Then she pened had a radio Installed In the new machine the salesman said had the road to 'Needles on the by Refuse Admittance telephone to hia oftold Torges said j California-Arizon- a border guarded fice but ha Insisted these detailed “1 never would have suspected him” Mr Dangerfieh The agents refused admittance to The suspects were noticed first confessions must ba confidential said “I thought he was a peach of a fellow although I was newspaper men and local detec- Railroad Wm Return by George Rodgers state road work "prqbably until they are Indicted Edtives who there went after J er surprised that he should have so much money in cash" near Silver lake about ten miles and tried” theHoover division of chief of in Pension Fund north gar of Baker Cal In Death valHoover referred sarcastically t Possibility that the green sedan may have been used by investigation of the department of Money ley thr4healthy records” of Waley and accomplices of Grant was seen in the continued search for justics announced tha discovery In SAN FRANCISCO June 10 Pacific company an Rodgers said the occupants asked Grant D G this morning The United Press re Washington an automobile of that description The house stands among old nounced today it was completing him the best way to get to Blythe "Grant managed to get out of ported that peace officers of desert towns from Las Vegas homes occupied a generation ago by the distribution to employes today or Imperial Cal He said when he sentences twice the last tima A car to give them term in 1927” he said "Th Nev to Victorville Caln were watching for such a car bear Spokane's wealthy residents It Is of about 1850000 Impounded under walked over to thesaw number of gentleman Valey also had a magnifhe 'a a structure and a half the of the story railway provisions ing two men and a blond woman which had been sightei brown with white trimmingpainted with fivo arrests including icent-record The slon act following the recent sawed-of- f at Yucca city shotgun revolvers and from burglary to grand larcany brown has almost turned to gray prems court decision ruUng the act a a rifle a of paroles Included Activities in Ogden led to additional developments late with age and the white also Is grty unconstitutional Hoaded for Baker course” Whert the lawn has not died for F I McCaffery general auditor 29 Everett rearrested when an Monday police Hugins lack of the grass in rank said partial return of pension funds After receiving the Information Jack Tichenor 17 negroes who were said to have been ar- Uncared-fo- rwatershrubbery and un was made in pay checks of June 5 the car speeded up and headed for rested with Waley November 20 1933 on suspicion of rob trimmed trees surround the build' and the remainder In 64365 checks Baker Rodgers said Later the ma chins was reported on the Death ' f now ready for delivery Ing bery in Salt Lake City valley highway leading from Ba ker to Las Vegas Hugins and Tichenor were apprehended by Ogden police on request ot the department of justice Both were ques Deputy 8nedecker’s report said Terms-Wale- y the green sedan wns traveling at tioned at length but liberated when their activities appearei a high rate of speed and had left ' to be bona fidd ’ the Las Vegas highway and taken a cutoff which would lead to Search“ HARBIN Mauchukuo Jun Botii Rearrested Later light Nev over which It was pos10 (Jewish Telegraph Agensible to double hack to Needles Later however both men were rearrested and held for TACOMA June 10 CD— Harmon Harbor county eight years ago Cal In cy V- Emulating gang Salt Lake City authorities Both men have been employe! W Waley former Tacoman re- The minister waa the Rev T T Dunn asked peace officers to America a band today kidnaped Leib Mall son of Jp-cported to have confessed the George Ove Lutheran paator and probation stop any car anawerlng tha desteadily in Ogden police learned It was presumed that they Weyerhaeuser kidnaping was de- officer at Aberdeen where Watey’s scription of the green sedaa and Mall a prominent conwere wanted only for what information they might be able scribed by Probation Officer Her- mother was a Salvation Amy hold tha occupants for federal tractor and notified his par-en- ts b Is being held for ranbert W Ward today aa a "tough worker t to supply about Waley agents j som with a yellow streak a yard The probation officer aaid Waley Salt Lake City government agents continued their tight talker wide” Th kidnaping took place waa walking with Ove preceded by Trainment Elect Upped policy with news gatherers Dear a synagogue In the heart Ward said the young’ suspect a Salvation Army man from the CLEVELAND June 10 ID— The of tho Jewish district of HarA report was received that four men and a woman were never showed superiority of any Grays Harbor county courthouse to Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen bin The kidnaped youth la included among those arrested here but it rould not he kind and cannot be a major figure jail en route t the state training announced the election of T W 20 years old He waa forced school for selling liquor as chairman Tucson Aria verified L D Wine special agent in charge of the Salt Lake la the kidnap gang Donelly by hie captor to send a note As they reached the stair bottom of Its board of directors today aa one time an elderly I “Why to hla father pleading that office said there “was nothing new” all day preacher at least 20 pounds 'lighter Ward said Waley hit the Salvation delegates continued their quadrea h pay tha ransom and not E J Connelly aee of the “G:mencould not he reac jumped on hint applied a hammer-loc- k Amy man from behind knocking alal convention here notify the police saying him down on the soon had Walev The and elderly for an interview' He was closeted iiTthe 'mysterious f otherwise he would be the young has restricted the impor Franc floor crying for mercy” Ward reand murdered floor offices throughout the day and sent word out that he called desperado down and had him beg tation ef domestic electric refrigera r tors “hid no comment to make” c That waa la Monlcsano Greys glng when officers arrived ’J I 8 Visibly exclted lhe director said this "was highly important to th investigation” and promptly ordered that "a police guard be thrown about th house” Then as reporters left his office Hoover added there might be “additional details at any Nevada Warned Hearted To Keep Watch Mother-Broke- 1 hftlde i 1 two-stor- long-distan- (f)-Sout- hern 20-y- wltb-sam- cutor Johnston of Pierce county who said that he will ask the death penalty if the suspects are turned over to the state courts for prosecution Under the Washington statutes the death penalty Is mandatory upon conviction of kidnaping unless the jury Life imprisonment is the penalty recommends leniency when leniency is urged The federal “Lindbergh law” provides the death penalty tor kidnapers if the victim is killed otherwise life Impris- onment From San Francisco the Washington district federal attorney said he would recommend trial of the pair in the state courts so they might receive the “severest penalty pos' sible” ' Warrants for the return of the Waleys to Washington ’were expected to arrive in Salt’ Lake City Monday night All of the defendants are accused of conspiring to use the mails to defraud and Grant is charged with depositing a let- ’ ' ter to extort The district attorney's office here announced that there will be “no secrecy” regarding the removal of the Waleys A hearing will be held in the usual manner before Federal Judge Tillman D Johnson and their removal from Utah will depend on the court's sanction Whether the hearing will ha held Tuesday or later In the - SPOKANE Wash June 10 (AV-T- hs house in which kidnaped George Weyerhaeuser Tacoma Scion ot lumber millions was held was found here today in the center of anulet South Hill pen-ii“cy- Determination that Mrs Waley and her husband shall pay trol of 6' Men ' Death Penalty to Be Sought for Couple Seized in Salt Lake Hiding Place of Abduction Gang Located in Spokane Area Elderly OgdettResident Says His Suspicions Were Chief Executive Would Aroused by Actions of Couple Before News of Arrest Came From S L Plug Loopholds in Release System The trio In the Manchukuo Apes America Washington Officer Tough Talker With Yelfow Streak InKidnaping - ob v " tor-tqr- ed j) ‘ A A V e l v