Show ahan Gets 60 Years for Weyerhaeuser K MASTER MIND OF ABDUCTION ADMITS GUILT Starts for McNeil Prison Almost Immediately A report that an inmate of the tate prison a former accomplice of William Villiam Mahan Ma- Ma Mahan han would be taken to Ogden Ogden Ogden Og Og- den to direct officers to a cache of Weyerhaeuser ransom ran ran- som soni money was vas denied by federal agents Saturday TACOMA Wash May 9 AP Scar-faced Scar William Mahan bowed his head over his red necktie pleaded guilty today received a year 60 sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence and was bundled off to federal prison for engineering the of George Weyerhaeuser 9 timber timber timber tim tim- ber fortune heir The government left hanging banging over him a mall mail extortion indictment indictment indictment indict indict- ment on on- on which it might if deemed necessary add acid a life lite sentence to his quota punishment Scar Scarcely el more mor t than n an hour after f pronouncement of sentence an jj only 48 hours after his Mahan was sas bound for McNeil island prison in Puget sound a short distance from Tacoma May Slay Go to Alcatraz Federal officers said he might inight lat later r be transferred to Alcatraz z island prison for incorrigible incorrigibles in San Francisco bay Mahan who was captured in San Francisco within sight of ot Alcatraz Alcatraz Alca- Alca traz Thursday noon after a long hunt by justice department agents spoke only in monosyllables as he faced Federal Judge Edward E. E Cushman His first enunciation of ot guilty was so weak that the judge asked him to repeat it Standing dejectedly the former bank robber refused Judge Cushmans Cushman's Cushmans Cushman's Gushman's Cush- Cush mans man's reiterated offers to appoint a d defense ense attorney said he had no money admitted a criminal career in Idaho and Montana and invited immediate sentence Judge Cushman asked him if he was represented by an attorney and M Mahan han replied no Cushman then advised him that if It he be was without money money to hire an lin attorney the court would appoint appoint appoint ap ap- ap- ap point one for tor him To which Mahan Mahan Mahan Ma Ma- han replied h he did not wish that done Do you know what you are arc accused accused accused ac ac- ac- ac of ot asked Judge Cushman nYes n. n Yes Mahan had a hang-dog hang expression expression sion slon on his face through most of the proceedings Do you wish a delay to consult with friends who might obtain an attorney for you Judge Cushman asked Mahan replied in the negative and again said no when asked if it ithe he be had read the indictment Owen P P. Hughes assistant United States attorney then read the Indictments in indictments indictments in- in charging and conspiracy to kidnap under the Lindbergh law Stirred by Waley Valer Another indictment charging usIne using using us us- ing Ine- tho the malls mails to extort the ransom money from Georges George's young parents parents parents par par- was not read rend I Mahan whose true name is listed as Dainard looked at the floor His face was expressionless until Hughes Hug read Wales Wale's name Then hen he glanced upward and his eyes flickered Wale Waley and his wife blamed Mahan as the master mind The putting away of Mahan ahan closed 1119 justl justice e departments department's books on one of ot the most sensation sensation- Continued on Page Pago Two Column rive Five I MAHAN GIVEN YEAR 60 60 TERMS Continued from Page On One a al of ot the tho recent series of big time Mr and Mrs Harmon Metz Valoy Walcy Mahan's confederates were caught aught in Salt SaIl Lake City J June nc 8 1935 nine days after the trio had split plit the paid them by J. J P. P Weyerhaeuser lumber magnate magnate mag mag- nate for the release of hI his curly- curly haired year old son The yielded upward of ot of the ransom money and were bundled off ot to prison prison Waley Waley to o Alcatraz on on a year 45 sentence and nd Mrs Waley Valey to a Milan Mich federal institution for tor 20 years Money l Is b Recovered cred Mahan eluded Butte Mont police police po- po lice cc the day after the were captured There he left letL behind him more than and an automo- automo bile ile When arrested federal agents said aid he had in his pockets some of it ransom money Subsequently the federal agents reported finding more in his San Francisco hideout Unverified reports however were that the total otal recovered in San Francisco wa was vas Thus the only mystery apparently remaining in the Weyerhaeuser case is the whereabouts of ot somewhere somewhere some- some where between and that hat supposedly went vent to Mahan Mahan's admission of ot guilt precluded precluded pre pre- eluded the thc necessity of confrontIng confronting confront- confront Ing ng him with his kidnap victim Little George identified Mahan from rom a photograph during Mrs Valey's Waley's trial as the man who abducted abducted abducted ab ab- ab- ab ducted him In an automobile a afew afew few ew blocks from his home I Mahan's guards said he weighed 25 pounds less than when he was arrested In Montana in 1927 1921 for tor a Rathdrum Idaho state bank robber rob- rob ber bery cry Questioned by Judge Cushman Mahan admitted the Rathdrum robbery for tor which he served about abou six ix years and an automobile theft In n Montana of which he was waD con con- Hug Hughes es also IBO informed the judge Mahan was wanted in Grays Harbor county and at Ellensburg Wash for tor bank robberies |