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S L AREA Postal Clerk Can Identify Man Who Mailed Ransom Demand to Childs Child's Family ORANGEVILLE Idaho June 7 7 AP AP-A AP A network of sheriffs sheriff's officers was sas thrown about countr country roads in this region shortly after noon today on a report of Postmaster White of Elk City that he had received three notes he identified identified iden iden- identified as part peart of the Weyerhaeuser ransom money Search for clues and suspects in connection with the George Weyerhaeuser spread over the entire nation nation na tion today with the following known developments 1 The Salt Lake City division of the department of justice was still pressing a hunt for the occupants of the green sedan which passed through Brigham City and Ogden Thursday 2 A list of some 20 prospects h has a s b bee been e e n broadcast throughout the nation as wanted for ques ques- This list includes the names of known criminals capable of performing such a crime 3 3 J J. Edgar Hoover director of f the federal bureau of investigation in Washington said the hunt is being directed from here He refused to comment on reports from Tacoma that Harold 3 J. J Nathan his assistant had gone to Tacoma to direct the search We never reveal the movements of any of our men he said 4 Discarded Washington license plates X found near route U. U S. S 12 outside of Jonesville Mich have been found to have doubtful connection with the case 5 S. Announcement that postal clerks clerics can definitely identify man who mailed original ransom 6 wide Nation-wide survey is being made made of prisons to learn identities of former prisoners familiar with the Tacoma area Suspects May Seek Haven Havez of Refuge H Here ere The mysterious green 1929 Cadillac Cadilac sedan registered to a a 3 Seattle platinum blonde under suspicion in the search for the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers has not been found but may be heading heading heading head head- ing toward Salt Lake City The Salt Lake Telegram learned Friday Spotlight of the relentless search for the snatchers of haired curly-haired George Weyerhaeuser Tacoma Wash heir of lumber lumI lumber lum lum- I ber millions caught the car at Brigham City Thursday There a service station attendant serviced the vehicle He was paid with a 10 note that he suspected was part of the ransom paid for lor the safe return of little George NOT RANSOM 1 BILL Department of justice agents from the Salt Lake City bureau lureau QU bu lu- reau investigated the report The agent in charge harge declared that the suspected bill was not part of the ransom payment The car was reported to have gone toward Wyoming from Brigham City with its passengers three men and a woman It mysteriously vanished It had not b been en stopped at Evanston Wyo Salt Lake City police emphatically declared Friday morning But there were persistent reports at the police station that federal G UG men had taken the c car r and its occupants into custody and were not an announcing announcing announcing an- an the capture We Ve have no information for foi publication the department of justice agents said when asked about the hunt in Utah and Wyoming Friday MAY 1 BE RETURNING Acting on the official reports of the local police that the ca car car had not been captured it was believed the G men were working working working work work- ing on the theory that the car and its nervous passengers were doubling doublin their tracks and returning to lo this vicinity License number numb of the car was Deported from Brigham City as Washington AX But the X ux appears on all Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington license plates and motor vehicle registration officials of that state s said id the number was A registered for such sucha a car to Gladys West of Seattle Salt Lake City police were working on another angle of the sensational case the case the report that two twp men under indictment for p participation in the attempted holdup of a Denver Rio Grande Western train here February 2 were wanted by Portland Port Port- land police for questioning in connection with the Weyerhaeuser case They were Ell Elliott ott Michener and Richard Franzeen former Oregon state prison convicts Both are said to be familiar with Salt Lake City and uG G men and city police officers were hunting hunting hunting hunt hunt- ing for th them m here on the theo theory they might t seek a a hay haven n of f refuge here I for or tho the abd abductors and the tho ransom they obtained Soon after his arrival Captain 1 of ot Detectives J John hn J J. Keegan of Portland Port Port- land announced that Jack Bailey Batley former Pacific northwest rum baron and Richard Johnstone another another an an- other man wanted for questioning In the were seen Monday Monday Mon Mon- day at Perma erma Mont Seen In S. S BF F. F Early today Police Inspector Fred d Bu Buz Butz at San Francisco said ld J. J Itee R. R McKee ee a a. former ormer neighbor or Harold Continued J o I. I It CAR IN KIDNAP CASE SOUGHT Continued front from Pare Page One McAtee also wanted for tor questionIng question question- Ing in a St. St Louis killing reported he saw McAtee in the tho bay city re re- re McAtee was described as a former resident in the ser neighborhood The reported whereabouts of oC Bailey Bai Bal ley Icy and Johnstone Captain Keegan declared tied in closely with reports that a tan sedan sped nearly miles an hour to escape two Umatilla Uma Uma- tills illa county deputy deput sheriffs cruising cruising cruis- cruis ing ng in search of kidnap suspects Sheriff V. W. D. D Rapp of ot Sand Point Idaho Informed Keegan that two prisoners told him they saw Bailey and Johnstone at Perma and talked with the men Sheriff Rapp said Sam a n prisoner who knows the wanted men declared they were riding Ina in ina ina a black V 8 Ford sedan with three thre other men and were headed rapidly toward Missoula Mont On Main rt Road noad Perma is on one of or the main highways highways high high- ways was between Spokane and Mis Mis- soula The route would take the travelers travelers trav tray elers close to the Canadian border and far into the region used by Baileys Bailey's associates when he was a baron in the running rum-running trade The automobile Rapp believed might have been painted black to aid in the escape from officers who were vere searching for the tan machine Shortly after aCter Nathans Nathan's arrival here it became known that government government government govern govern- ment agents have been in this localIty localIty local- local Ity ty for or six months and had warned varned many ninny wealthy families against probable From a Seattle detective agency came the disclosure that the warnings warnings warn- warn ings were issued a year ago anc and that hat 12 families in the tho Puget Pug sound region have been guarded for six months Four Ask Protection The detective agency also revealed that hat four more families asked for protection the day George Veyer haeuser 9 year old old ear timber family heir was on Ma May 4 Other startling disclosures came when department of oC justice agents gave jave out a description of blankets in i which the kidnapers wrapped their victim and the boys boy's recollection recollection tion ion that a n laughing woman was wasn in n the house in which he was held captive before he was ransomed The blankets were of at the cheap Indian type The first bore an Indian head design measuring 68 by jy 74 wine colored borders and tan background The second was in two wo pieces probably o of mill ends sewn together It was 68 by 73 inches with a geometrical design in n blue green black and rde The agents gents appealed to the public to report if they knew the owners of the he blankets The little kidnap victim also was quoted by agents as saying he hecard heard card a t woman laugh while he was wasa a capt captive ve in the house Lends Lendi Cre Credence This lent credence to previous deductions deductions de- de that a woman had signed the ic first ransom note signed Ego Egoist t. t Egoist because it mentioned harm to the child instead of death deaths as s retribution if the ransom was not ot paid George was quoted as saying the house louse was a two-gabled two gray building building build- build ing ng near a lake Jake and a railroad curve urve and that it had a bedroom with ith twin beds Another aid to the search came when hen two Tacoma postal clerks said they icy believed they could identify the he man who mailed the ransom note ote Flo Floyd d E. E Baker one said the he da day of the tho he sold a special ecial delivery stamp to a man manfor manfor manor for or an envelope marked Urgent Urgent These words were typed across Ithe the ic envelope which carried the ransom ransom ran- ran som om demand to Mr and Mrs J. J P. P Weyerhaeuser Jr Baker Balter said he noticed the man because he did not bu buy a cent stamp tamp for or the letter Ietter Fred P. P Schaller Schaller ler er the other postal saw the 10 man when he walked l past his window TACOMA Wash June 7 UP UPA UPA UP- UP A beautiful platinum blonde today became the thc central figure of the spreading search for tor the gang which held George Weyerhaeuser san an of a Tacoma millionaire until ransom was paid for his re- re lease ease Both federal agents and police pollee want ant to question a year old woman wom- wom an n and her male companion a suspect suspect sus- sus in fraud deals dc-als it was learned The couple are believed fleeing across cross the mountains of Utah and Wyoming riding in a 1929 Cadillac sedan cdan sedan according to information received received re- re here It was recalled that a Cadillac sedan was reported seen near oar the scene of the The woman and her companion entered the Weyerhaeuser case officially of- of tidally yesterday when a service station operator at Brigham City Utah tah reported an attempt to pass one ne o of the 10 federal reserve ransom ran- ran om sorn notes It developed the bill was vas not one of ot the ransom notes but ut search for lor the couple was wa pressed anyway Is Issued to Woman oman The sedan carries Washington II- II cerise cense plates issued to the woman The he car previously had been re regIstered reg- reg reg-j reg in Illinois Indiana and I Georgia j I IThe The woman police said always was vas well ell dressed and apparently well ell supplied with money The Tho man sought ought in connection with several stock tock deals is described as slightly slight ly y pot bellied This is a description description tion ion used frequently regarding one of f the kidnap suspects While this search was made far lar from rom Tacoma there were other indicationS indications in- in that federal agents believe the lie kidnapers have scattered A second ransom bill w was s cashed in Spokane Check Record cord I LEAVENWORTH Kan June 7 UP Two UP-Two Two department of oC justice I agents gents pur pursuing the abductors of I little ittle George Weyerhaeuser have I just concluded a two day investigation tion of ot the record of ot George Rittenhouse Rittenhouse Rittenhouse Ritten- Ritten house at the federal prison here it was wras learned today from rom confidential sources not immediately connected connected connected con con- with the prison I Check of oC the prison records of other convicts who have knowledge of the Tacoma area also is being made by federal men I Former prison mates of Rittenhouse Rittenhouse Rittenhouse Ritten- Ritten house who served a term for tor mail robber robbery quoted him as having said tho ho Weyerhaeuser family would be bean bean bean an easy mark for lor a pointing out their great resources resource and the fact they had children the source disclosed Deputy Warden Varden F. F J. J Morrison in n charge while Warden Varden Fred G G. Zerbst is on a n months month's vacation would not admit the agents agent had hadeen been een there and referred all queries to lo o the department of justice in Washington Wont Won't Admit It The department of ot justice would not even admit it had ever heard of ot a man named Rittenhouse It was learned however that a search earch is being made for the ex- ex convict but whether the J would be laid to him could not be Rittenhouse is familiar with the territory surrounding Tacoma He served time in the McNeil island federal prison near Tacoma being released July 9 1931 The time spent in m Leavenworth pris prison rison m was for or a mail robbery in 1921 at Bordeaux Wash while in inthe inthe I the lie employ of a lumber company owned by the He talked himself out o of the Bordeaux robber robbery after alter the money was vas found in his possession He was vas arrested again November 13 1929 for the robber robbery and after two trials rials was sentenced to five years in n the Leavenworth prison Relea Released ed in 1934 Rittenhouse as a clerk in inthe inthe the he prison shoe factory and was released May 30 1934 Between the time of the postoffice robbery and his arrest two years later ater he was traced to Portland Salt alt Lake Lale City Denver and Kansas City He was arrested in m Kansas City under the alias o of A. A M. M Aviana Appearance of one of the 20 20 ransom ansom bills at Huntington Ore for or a railroad ticket to Salt Lake Lakel City could mean one of ot the kidnapers kid kid- apers was following the same route Rittenhouse d did after the robbery |
