Show Englishman Arrested In Kidnap Plot Police Foil Effort To Extort 1 1000 From Countess B Barbara MANCHESTER M Eng March 16 AP 16 AP Alfred 31 Molyneux of Lancashire was jailed today on a charge ot of attempting to extort 1000 from Countess Count Count- I ess Barbara Barbara Hutton Haugwitz- Haugwitz by py pretending to reveal reveal re reo re- re veal a plot to kidnap h her hr r newborn newborn new new- born son Police said that Molyneux had admitted writing a letter during depression moments of offering offer i ing irig g to disclose the plot I Iwas H He was remanded In custody for a week The prisoner was trapped by police police po lice when he went vent to to keep a rendezvous with a messenger from the Countess lIe He told the thc police that n no kidnap plot existed Went Vent Into Detail was arrested last Satin Saturday day The letter went into details as to how contact between Molyneaux and arid an agent from the thc Countess should be made in Man Man- chester It ordered Let your our messenger be bc outside the long bar at the Gaumont picture e theater March 14 at 7 pm p.m. and let him have a ared red silk handkerchief in his left hand I lIe He will be asked daily and Ili Ih hi must reply no zie weekly I If you intend to h hOed heed ed this put an answer in the tile personal column of lof the Manchester Evening Chi Chion- icle ide March 12 I Detective Inspector Forster told the police court that the countess countes gave ga th the l letter tt lt r r to If her Ifer r l lawyer who informed the police whereupon the was inserted inserted in in- s in the newspaper j lYle x c Caught g in Jn jit Trap ap apOn On Saturday the inspector s saida said id a a detective carrying a d dummy package age stood outside the theater while whilO other detectives watched was arrested when he appeared at the thc stated time and received the package from the de do- The inspector said Molyneux told the police I r 1 admit I wrote the letter letter let let- ter knowing perte perfectly well vell that I Knew of no such plot or any perSons persons per per- sons who ho intended to kidnap the child I wrote it In moments of depression as as' as asI I am without mon money y mal Hid itI with a wife and two children to support on 30 shillings a week I II I I sincerely regret my action and hope I have not caused the count and countess any worry or anxiety Molyneux did not testify at today's today's today's to to- days day's hearing saying he had nothIng nothing nothing noth ing to add to the statement given to the police The baby was born Feb 21 24 and by the fact of oC bh birth th th became heir to the estates of his Danish father Count Court Haugwitz and to the thc fortune on his American mothers mother's side which is estimated at The moth mothers mother's rs r's fortune is part of th the Woolworth estate Intend Going to U. U S. S At the time of the childs child's birth tile the he British pr press prOss ss printed reports that the count and and countess would make their home in m England on the grounds that they feared kidnapers in the United d States The count however denied these reports reports' and said the child chUd would be taken to the United States Inthe in inthe the th near future Shortly after the boys boy's birth the c countess became become seriously ill m and for fOl o oa a time her life was in danger |