Show I SHERIFF MAKES PROBE OF PLOT TWIN FALLS Nov 16 W JP Iff E. E F F. Prater of Twin Falls county tod today lY continued his investigation of an alleged extortion plot against H. H R. R Sweet 60 with a view of determining determining deter deter- mining whether extortion charges will be filed against a woman and her husband The woman Mrs Evelyn McAtee 33 is alleged by the sheriff to have confessed that she and her husband W. W L. L McAtee 47 plotted Monday to lure Sweet to their apartment and hold him for ransom The sheriff sher sher- iff iU quoted her as saying she arranged for the man to come corne to the apartment to appraise kitchen ls which she planned to turn in on an account for furniture The purported plot failed the thc sheriff sher sher- If lit iff said when the son of Mr Sweet Bert Sweet Twin Falls furniture dealer reported to officers that a woman woman wo woo wooman wo- wo man approached him and advised him his father was being held for lor ransom Prater related that after alter he told of the meeting the son went to the apartment and with in cash and a n promise to raise more obtained the release of his father Prater said that as soon as the father and son drove away half hall a dozen oti officers ers entered the thc apartment and disarmed McAtee recovering the money The woman told Prater the sherIff sher sher- Iff related that after she had lured the elder Sweet into the apartment nt she coughed as a signal for tor her husband husband hus hus- band to enter the room with a arc re revolver revolver re- re volver and demand money McAtee was lodged in the county jail The couple and their three chil dren came to Twin Falls about bout six weeks ago from Shoshone where McAtee had worked as a truck driver Prater said 4 |