Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-21 | Page 2 | Banker Tells of Abduction

BANKER TELLS OF ABDUCTION John A. A Dowd operative in fn n the United States bureau of investigation is cooperating in the inquiry into the of Cashier Walter W. W Steed Jr of the Clearfield State bank b bj by supposed hitchhikers hitch who took him over tho the state line into Wyoming Monday He Ho conferred with Sheriff Sheri Joseph Holbrook in Farmington Thursday The activity of the federal bureaus bureau is s tho the first so o far tar as ns known and is in pursuance of oC authority given Riven by congress congress con- con gress in the law passed at the tho last session following the of the Lindbergh infant The case came under the new statute because of its interstate phase FARMINGTON July 21 21 Delirious Delirious and suffering from mental shock Walter W. W Steed cashier of the Clearfield Clear field State bank is at his home under under un der a physicians physician's care recovering from rom his mistreatment at the hands of thugs who him on Monday Monday Mon Mon- day morning and forced him to drive them toward the Wyoming line Sheriff Sherl Joseph Holbrook in coop with the sheri sheriffs sheriff's f's office a at Evanston is attempting to pick up the trail of the men who beat an and drugged the bank banker r Mr Steed during periods or of rationalism ra rap recounted to io Sheriff Hobrook Ho Hof Holbrook Hol- Hol brook Incidents of his adventure H He departed In no mat material rial degree tram from the first account he gave cave when picked up near Evanston Tuesday night He said that after being forced b by bythe the men to drive them away from Layton he was vas beaten and nd choked t tan to toan toan an extent that left him few recollections recollections of his journey He lie remembered being forced to take a tablet which dulled his senses and later another He recalled little of his trip until h he awakened in the willows alongside the Union Pacific tracks near Evans ton Sheriff Holbrook Dr A. A Z Z Tanner George E. E Holt president of th the bank and Jack Steed 18 son of ot th the victim after listening to his story said they believed he ho had told all h he knew of the occurrence though when he regains full consciousness an and overcomes the shock of his ence once he may be able to throw f further light on it they think