Show BAKER SEIZED SEllED I BY KIDNAPERS rEARED FEARED SLAIN Abduction May Have Been Ruse to Cloud Chase Police Believe MAN WOMAN ARRESTED Racketeering Angle of Case Investigated By WILLIAM II 11 BAILEY United Press Tress Staff Correspondent DENVER Jan 22 Death 22 Death at the end of or a typical gangster ride was feared leared today to have been the fate of Benjamin P. P Bower Racketeering or revenge were advanced advanced ad- ad as the thc motive for the thc strange of the wealthy wealth year old bakery official Detectives suspected the angle might have been a ruse to cloud the chase Three days had passed since Bower was dragged from his home b by two gunmen who demanded ran ran- sam som I No attempt since sinde that time has been made to communicate with Bowers Bower's distracted wife wire to arrange payment of or the ransom The silence led lcd police to believe belleve no attempt would be made and that ransom never had been the object of ol the thc crime I Art Taylor a former convict said by police to have attempted organization I of a baker bakery racket was ar arrested arrested ar- ar rested for investigation in connection with the I IDENTITY GUARDED A blond woman whose identity was guarded by police was arrested with him Kenneth Coffman former inmate of the Nebraska state reformatory was arrested last night Police refused to reveal the suspects suspects suspects' suspects suspects' sus sus- sus possible connection with the crime but it was known they were not held as the principals Meanwhile cit city fraternal and business business bus bus- iness mess organizations threw their resources re resources resources re- re sources behind the police in a great search for Bower Thousands of dollars were offered as rewards for the arrest of the kidnapers kidnapers kid- kid Citizen posses aided firemen and police poUce in a to house-to-house canvass canvass canvass can can- vass in search of the hiding place where Bower is held Neighbor spied on neighbor as the city approached hysteria Underworld haunts were were turned inside out Police informers filed Wed in inand inand inand and out of the police station The underworld grapevine was as hot with the biggest question in Denver to today to- to day Who day Who got Bower WAS WEALTHY MAN Detectives found that the baker bakery official despite his unpretentious home was actual actually a wealthy man man man- possessor of possibly a quarter million million mil mu- lion dollars The They have found he was known to his as a hard driver The They believed h he had made enemies among his men who might have sought his life in revenge ThC They found that the bakery busness business busi- busi I ness in Denver had been thrown into a a turmoil b by the efforts of racketeers to organize the business The organization or organization organization or- or plans were cre similar to rackets of ot the same line in Chicago The Sell Campbell-Sell baker bakery of which Bower was part owner had fought the racketeers The kidnap kidnap- ing detectives believed might have been racketeers' racketeers warning to other recalcitrant baker bakery officials But the whereabouts of Bower and the perpetrators of his were vere as unknown today as Tuesday night when he was taken from his home |