Show ABDUCTION CASE CA SE NEARS SOLUTION DENVER Colo Jan 28 28 Positive Positive identification of a dead man mAln as 85 one member of the gang which held Benjamin P. P Bower for tor ransom and the thc arrest of two others who police said were actual members memo mem bers bees of ot the gan gang today had brought the abduction case near neal complete so so- lution I Joseph Clinton Riley e cx convict and suspected murderer who committed suicide yesterday rather than surrender surrender der to police officers was said by Chief of ot Police PoUce Albert T T. Clark to have been the ringleader of the gang G. G W Reed and Fred Creeley were arrested a few hours after alter Riley Rileys s 's suicide sui suicide sui sui- cide and Clark said he believed the thc two were associates of Riley and Involved Involved In in m the abduction of ot the 62 j year year- carold car car- old bakery manager Riley rented a small house a few miles west of ot Denver from Jack Richardson Richardson Rich Rich- ardson who told police yesterday he was driven from his property after the at the point of Rileys Riley's gunBower gun Bower identified the house a as 5 s that in m which he was held captive A small heavy table on which Bower was directed directed di di- to write the ransom plea to his wife Bowers Bower's collar and tic tie which he forgot and left leU in the house when he was led ed out and to freedom after five days' days imprisonment and an orange orange- colored electric light globe enabled Bower to Identify identity the house Release Rich Industrialist SOUTH BEND Ind Jan 28 UP Howard A. A Woolverton 52 wealthy Industrialist and latest victim of ot a million dollar midwest kidnap ring was safe sare at his home today after beng be be- ing ng held nearly 24 hours for ransom His release came carne while authorities hunted through h Illinois and Indiana underworld gathering places for trace or of f the infamous Seven gang sang believed be be- to have ha conducted the lion tion ion Representatives of the prominent Woolverton family issued denials that any my ransom had been paid or prom prom- sed Police asserted however circumstances cir dr- cir cir- of the industrialists industrialist's release re re- lease ease indicated an agreement had been made Woolverton said he was ryas blindfolded rom from the time the kidnapers seized him in his automobile in m the heart of a arich arich arich rich residential section Tuesday night until released last evening |