| Show KIDNAPERS SEIZE RICH OIL MAN j 1 Wife Offers Prompt Payment of of Ransom For Return of Victim Every Law Enforcement Agency in California Join Joins Joins' H Hunt nt for W. W F. F Gettle 1 GUEST TRUSSED TO TREE 1 Abductors Spurn Promise 1 Cash for Release B Press Pre LOS ANGELES May William 10 F. F Gettle 47 millionaire on oil operator was by two masked gunmen early Thursday on his newly acquired ac country estate at Arcadia at atthe atthe the base of the Sierra Madre moun thins The Interrupted a g gay y party Gettle was giving in tion o ot the completion of a swimming pool and recreation n hall ball in the esl te Apparently the plot has been hatching hatch hatch- irig ing lot for a week or more police said and they exp expressed belief that more than the two men who effected effected- it were inv involved The kidnapers scaled a stone wall topped with barbed wIre A A. A step ladder and automobile tire tracks were among clues left James P. P Wolf furniture dealer ot of Westwood Cat Cal one of the the guests witnessed the Seized With Guest He told officers that h he and Gettle Gettic were in the recreation hall hail chatting and drinking as Albert Hitchin a guest from Beverly Hills had l I The recreation hall hail Is a hundred feet from the residence where here the n guests were at the time a Footsteps were heard on the w lk and Gettle and Wolf thou thought ht or one of the guests was returning Put n m up tip gentlemen a soft oft voice said Gettle anc and Wolf turned and faced two men armed wIth pistols The They were marched toward the east wall vall a hundred yards ards from the resi resi- Tosses Wallet In Bushes Wolf thinking J a holdup tossed his wallet into the tha bushes Then said WoLf one of the men men announced an This is not its hoist a snatch Gettle began to plead with the men Ill give you OU all the thc money I b hAe Ve on me and so go into the house for m re reit it if you wont won't take me away The gunmen laughed replying That wont won't be enough This is a fellow Near the wall where the victim saw a step stepladder resting Wolf was tied to a tree Gettle Shoved Over Oer Walt Wall Gettle was then carried up the step ladder and shoved over the wall One of the kidnapers kidnaper turned to ato Wolf saying Stay where you are for an hour Continued on Page Pue SIxteen en r COAST OIL MAN 4 f f. f I KIDNAP VICTIM I y Masked Pair Abduct Willi William am F. F Gettle From Midnight Cr Party at Estate a sir lift a Continued from Pace puo One 1 Or well we'll kill y you u. u This Is no s stickup t i p This is a I He then went over the wall and Wolf heard an ob autom start away I r. He tried to free himself but it was vas 1 nearl hat half hour before he nearly an sue sue- seeded In getting to the house and I the alarm Police Or Organize hunt Arcadia Los Angeles and Beverly erly Hills police immediately organized the hunt Investigation d disclosed closed that the ladder step lsd had been seen on the cs C tate Late a week ago caretakers thinking it belonged there Indications were that the kIdnapers had concealed themselves on the thc estate several hours before the For several years Gettle had been manager i o of a department store at at Bakersfield An investment in oil built up a fortune for him He then moved no to Beverly Hills Prompt Ransom Promised Ernest E. E Noon lawyer and spokes spokes- man lean for the family said any reasonable reason reason- able ransom demand would b be met promptly We want Mr Gettle back at once once Noon said We are prepared to deal confidentially honestly fairly with the kidnapers and we shall meet any reasonable ransom demand The money will be forthcoming as soon as the ransom demand js is made provided we have sufficient money to meet it iL We are arc willing to follow Noon said no ransom demand has be been made so far but that because of Mrs Gettles Gettle's ill h health the demand should be made upon him VUe Authorizes Payment PIment Mrs Gettle has requested that I take charge of the ransom negotiations said Noon and she has lias authorized au au- me to meet any demand for money that js is within the power of the family to meet Mrs Gettle Is on the verge of col lapse and in no condition to face the nervous o strain of negotiations with the kidnapers The Gettles have four children Billy 8 Belt Betty 6 Bobby 5 and Jim Jim- nY 4 Every law enforcement agency in southern California was in the kidnap kid kid- nap hunt Thursday with federal agents under instructions from Washington Wash Wash- ington to participate Officers said they believed the kid heaping was engineered by a big gang and that at least one of the members of the gang was wa a woman an Utah Sheriff Disarmed And nd Trussed to Tree Special to I CEDAR CITY Slay MaY With 10 a gunshot wound In one one hand hand and cady cad bad ly y swollen wrists Sheriff Lewis R. R File Fite or of Iron county arrived in this city Wednesday and launched a man hunt for a man and woman who he said had wounded him handcuffed him to a tree in the isolated Iron mountain district then led fled The sheriff said he had wounded the man According to Sheriff Sheri Fife he was wast t trailing wool thieves and came upon the man man and woman in a camp He said he covered them with his gun but the man ran and he shot at him hitting him in the back In the excitement ex ex- the woman the sheriff sheri said slipped Clipped a gun to the man who got the drop on the sheriff forced him to dIs r card his gun then shot the sheriff sheri inthe jn in the hand when the latter tried to grasp the weapon Sheriff Fife sand said the man and woman took his own handcuffs and shackled him to a tree |
