Show SCHEDULE CONFERENCE I IThe The customary secrecy of G uG men surrounded their I movements as the huge ransom recovery was made Members Members Members Mem Mem- bers of the Salt Lake City police department did not know of it until informed by The Salt Lake Telegram Later federal agents here scheduled a conference with local of of- Finding of the mone money buried two feet underground wrapped in oil cloth and covered with a gunnysack was vas the beginning of the end of the cracking of the VI Weyerhaeuser case in Salt Lake City From the time the first ransom ransom bill was iwas vas uncovered solution of the case the west's most famous kid kid- naping turned toward the Utah capItal capital cap cap- ital 1111 city The bill was used to pay for a railroad ticket from Huntington Ore to Salt Lane LaKe City It was one of oC the 20 San Francisco federal re reserve reserve re- re serve servo notes that was included in inthe I the ransom When the purchaser of oC the ticket believed to be Valc Waley arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived in Salt Lake Cit City has not been definitely announced Arrest Rumored During the next several days there were unconfirmed reports of arrests in connection with tho case here but none were confirmed Then the solving of the case and apprehension of the and the implication of ot Mahan came with amazing swiftness It was through the tho foresightedness foresighted- foresighted ness of Acting Chief of Police O O. B. B Record that Mrs Waley Valey was ap ap- He had decided to use the time-honored time police dragnet I With Chief of Police William Villiam L. L Payne in Los Angeles attending tho the convention from which he returned late Monday nl night ht Acting Chief Record assigned assigned assigned as as- signed 27 members of his force to check every 5 10 and 20 bill re received received re- re in Salt Lake City stores Acting Chief Chic Record hauled out his dragnet after more than 20 of the ransom notes had been received by popular priced stores last Frida Fri Fri- da day At 11 a. a m. m at the Woolworth store Mrs Vale Waley Saley presented a 5 ransom note in payment for a 20 cent case The bill was checked by Detective W. W M M. Rogers He questioned Mrs Waley Valey and then took her to the department of justice bureau There after five hours of adroit questioning by the agents headed by E. E J. J Connelley the G man manace manace manace ace from the Pacific coast she implicated implicated implicated im im- im- im Her husband He was captured captured cap cap- later Saturday The were held by the agents Announcement Announcement Announce Announce- ment of their arrest was made b by Director Hoover in Washington late Sunday night Monday Monda with the c case e definitely cracked and Mahan rahan a frantic fugitive movements of the were discovered They made their headquarters in Ogden Mrs Waley Valey arrived there June 3 Shortly after atter the same day her husband joined her They then came to Salt Lake City In Ogden they had stayed at the home of her grandfather Julius Thulin June 7 Mahan arrived at Thulin's home and left a suitcase for the which was later taken to Salt Lake City Saturday Mahan returned to the Thulin home in Ogden and asked for tor the The grandfather had been In Salt Lake City and had learned of their arrest and had helped G men in checking the time of their arrival in Utah He informed Mahan they were in inthe inthe inthe the custody of the federal agents Mahan fled fled to to Butte where he abandoned his car when sight sighted d bythe bythe by bythe the officer there In Salt Lake City the lived at South State street One of oC their greatest purchases was aFord aFord a aFord Ford roadster ter from a car lot at South State street either last Wednesday or Thursday It was paid for lor with in the hot money Mahan's hideout in Salt Lake City is s believed to have De been en a a gara garage e eat at t North First West Vest street Itis itIs It is thought that he ho spent last Friday Friday Fri- Fri day ay night there attempting to change hange the Ls on ransom notes to o Es with green ink An ink bottle was found in the garage arage There were finger prints on n it They are arc being checked by Salt Lake City police Persons identified as the and nd another man spent two hours In n an East Second South street cafe Saturday morning drinking whisky it t was as reported From 2 a. a m. m to 4 a. a m m. they consumed two pints of the cafe said During that hat period a woman identified as Mrs Waley Valey by the twice counted a huge roll of bills The captive house in Spokane which was identified by Little George was rented by a girl who gave ave her name as Lyle Cole according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Miss Clara Lauten em em- of the Prescott Realty company company com corn pany in Spokane The rental was wa made while negotiations were mador made mad for or payment of the ransom The Th girl jirl was described as a young attractive attractive attractive at at- brunette Search for Mahan centered a aButto at Butte Butto and spread to Idaho It was wa reported that he sought directions direction at Dillon about an hours hour's drive south of Butto Butte on the main highway highway high high- way vay to Salt Lake City Butte officers also were working on the theory that he has holed holec up in a residential hideaway provided provided provided pro pro- vided b by a woman The John Doe of the mail fraud frau indictment ma may be the person with wit another man and a blond woman traveling in a green sedan fo for whom Nevada sheriffs hunted near nea Las Vegas Veas It was three men and a blonde riding in a green 1929 Cadillac se sedan sedan se- se dan who were reported to have hav passed a 10 ransom note at Brigham Brig Brig- ham hant City last week G lOG men inca officially officially of of- announced the note was no not I part of the ransom But the ca car I thought to be he headed toward Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming was never found I |