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Show was kidnaped from a Catholic institution in-stitution in Los Angeles last March. He is being held for Los Angeles police. Collins was found working in a , restaurant here. He came here about four months ago. Collins wos known here as Walter Kent. When found plans had been made for his adoption by a farm couple near here. He was brought to the restaurant by a tramp who said he would return for him when he found work but who never came back. KIDNAPED BOY IS DISCOVERED Waller Colilns Found In Illinois; Illi-nois; Came There -With Tramp LOS ANGELES. Aug. i (UP) Walter Collins. 9. who tvas believed to have been kidnaped here last March, is "in custody" in DeKalb, Ills., according to advices received by police today by Illinois authorities. authori-ties. The telegram did not give the circrmistances under which the boy was found. When he disappeared police worked work-ed on the theory that the lad was kidnaped by convicts who sought revenge out of hatred for the boy's father, who was a convict at Fol-som Fol-som prison. DE KALB, 111., Aug. i (UP) A nine-year-old boy who escaped from kidnapers in a Mexican colony in California and made his way here with a tramp, was in the county jail today mourning that a "life on the road" has ended and he must return to school. The boy is Walter Collins, who |