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Show BELIEVE WOMAN 15 CIIEFjlffl Score of Detectives Searching Search-ing for the Keets Baby and His Captors. By International News Service. SPRINGFIELD, JIo., June 2 A score of detectives were set at work tonight dogging the footsteps of strange women in Springfield on the theory that one of them may know the whereabouts of 14-months-old Lloyd Keets, heir to a $3,000,000 estate. The police now feel certain that a woman was a member, if not the directing direct-ing genius, of the gang of kidnapers that carried off the infant while his father, .1. Holland Keets, and his mother were dancing at the Country club. They believe they may find another remarkable remark-able woman criminal of the type of Helen of "Billy" Whitla kidnaping fame. Another study this afternoon of the letter received by Mr. Keets demanding demand-ing ransom led detectives to believe that the writer was not only a woman, but a woman of education. "The author misspelbd several simple words in an (Continued on Page Two.) BELIEVE WOMIN IS CHIEF KIDNAPER (Continued from Pago One.) apparent effort to lead the authorities astray. . Mr'. Keets stoutly denied this afternoon after-noon that he had paid over the $0000 on a mysterious automobile trip he made last night-and .was awaiting the return of his cbilfl- He said he had had no communication with the kid1 napers since Thursday. A phvsician remained atv the Keets home all day, caring for Mrs. Keets, whose condition is serious. Servants stopped all callers at the door, refusing refus-ing to admit even Mrs. Keets 's most intimate friends. Keets appeared more cheerful this afternoon, though he expressed annoyance annoy-ance when repeatedly pressed for information infor-mation about his mysterious trip last night. "Please don't insist on knowing where I have been." he said. "You understand it is publicity that has been damaging my chance of getting little Lloyd and i am not going to answer either yes or no. I do not want to be discourteous, but any discussion of the case would do harm." Though visitors had been barred from the young banker's home early in the dav," Keets personally conducted several sev-eral persons to the bedroom where the little boy was asleep when he was kidnaped, kid-naped, and then outside to some shrubbery. shrub-bery. There, he contends, the abductors abduc-tors lay in wait until the two maids had retired. Keets admitted that he would be perfectly willing to let the kidnapers get away without punishment if thev would bring his baby back. "They ought to be punished," he said, "but my main hope is getting mv little bov back safe and sound. I will keep faith with the kidnapers if they will only bring him back." A picture of the baby will be sent to all parts of the country, together with a description, if he is not located by tomorrow. |