Show ALBANY TENSE OVER EXPECTED RETURN OF BOY Youth May Reach Home by Thursday Night Report By ROBERT J. J CAVAGNARO Associated Press 5 Staff Writer ALBANY N. N Y July 19 19 Tense Tenseness ne ness S gripped the city today Johnny OConnell O'Connell was expected home lome by nightfall tomorrow after beIng beIng beng be- be Ing ng held prisoner by kidnapers rs since July 7 7 Swift undercurrent undercurrents of rumor churned In street and speakeasy conversations conversations con con- centering on the vanished youths youth's return Reports were hung on the family's sudden shift shirt from a troubled uneasiness ness to open optimism The carefree manner of one of O'Connell's politically cally powerful uncles Dan OConnell O'Connell OConnell O'Connell OConnell O'Connell OCon nell for tor the past 36 hours provided the basle bask for speculation that a substantial substantial sub sub- part of the ransom demanded has been paid A big if it in capital letters shaded shad shad- ed the reports report If If nothing has happened to the ne young oung OConnell O'Connell may be home tome before nightfall one superior authority said Completion of the private between tween the OConnell O'Connell family and the abductors was believed to have been reached yesterday esterday with the printing In a New York newspaper of a note sent b by one of ot the go be to another John J. J Solly OConnell O'Connell father of ot the missing heir to the OConnell O'Connell brothers' brothers political domain has dropped from sight for several days working desperately to recover his hlo son Not since last week when he made a mysterious trip to a hotel in Catskill have his hrs movements been known Laughter and cheerful voices have been heard outside the the- year old national guard officers officer's home His mother has fully recovered from Iii Iii- ness brought on by worry over her herson's herson's herson's sons son's abduction District Attorney John T. T Delaney reiterated the statement he has made daily since fince he took charge of the case casel There are no developments development Delaney De Dc- laney Janey was expected to decide today toda on his proposed plan to enlist the aid lid of the coast guard Ward to search the New England coast for an suspicious craft craf crafton on which young OConnell O'Connell may b be held Acting at the request of Delaney Delancy Schenectady police raided a vacant mill in that city on the of an unidentified mans man's Information that tha OConnell O'Connell was detained there The raid was unproductive S I Extortion Act Charge Filed ST. ST LOUIS July 19 Identified P-Identified Identified as one of the kidnapers of August Augus Luer wealthy banker of Alton Ill Percy M M. Fitzgerald who has a long police x record in this vicinity today vas was und under r a federal charge of viola tion ion of the national extortion act The complaint was filed flied last nIght nigh with Commissioner Arthur R. R Felsen In n East St St. Louis after identification had been made by Mrs Luer The bankers banker's wife wiCe was at home In Alton AHon a week a aeo aro o Monday Monda when Luer year old was VATS seized by two men and a woman H He was ras released by hit hie captors early Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day near Collinsville III No ransom was wa paid members of oC his family said although as much as was dem demanded demanded de de- de- de m In ransom notes The department of justice may elect to transfer the Cl case e to the state court courte Illinois law makes a capital offense |