Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-22 | Page 1 | Farmers Held in Kidnap Plot

FARMERS HELD IN KIDNAP PLOT Laundry ry Mark Gives Lead to Arrest rr st of 2 Minor Ransom Participants Fress Pru KANSAS CITY Dec 22 A 22 A laundry mark has has- led to the Arrest of two Kansas dairy farmers as as minor participants participants participants par par- in lathe the of ot Mrs Nell Neil Donnelly millionaire garment manufacturer manu manu- Police said they had con con- Gathering together loose ends of the abduction plot which ended in the mysterious release of ot- the victim and George Blair her negro chauffeur without the the Demanded Demand ed ransom officers sought four oth other r men reputed to have actually I executed th the plot The prisoners farmers in Wyandotte Wyandotte Wyandotte Wyan- Wyan dotte county west of Kansas City I allegedly confessed following their arrest late last night that they had supplied the shabby room four-room rural cottage in which Mrs Donnelly was held from last Wednesday last until unil Fri day Identification of the cottage by the woman woman manufacturer w was s' s f followed Immediately by the arrest of Paul Scheidt year old lessee of bf th the cot cot- tage who also alo manages a milk depot at Bonner Springs Kan ICan ImplIcated William Willfam Lacey Browning 42 of ot Holliday Kan Kanthe the second pris pris- oner The cottage was located by detectives detectives detec detec- tives who traced a laundry mark markon on ona ona ona a towel owel given Mrs Donnelly by her abductors She wrapped the towel about her neck and still stUl wore it when she was released The mark was traced raced to Emil G. G who Buinger-who who oWns owns the cottage leased by ScheIdt Officers said Browning DrownIng named Marshall DC Pew also of Holliday as the leader