Show KIDNAP PLOTTER TAKES OWN LIFE Hangs Self in Chicago Jail After Admitting Attempt to to Abduct Publisher fir 7 United Press CHICAGO Feb 2 22 one One One of ot the most bizarre attempts In Chicago police annals was climaxed abruptly Thursday when the con con- 1 rp t ator oCt plot hanged d himself in jail jail A startling chain chan of ot events that started with the assault ault upon end attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted of ot E. E p P. P Adler prominent Des Moines Iowa newspaper newspaper news news- paper publisher was followed Thursday Thurs day by the s suicide cide of Fred Mayo who had confessed the abduction attempt Mayo admitted that he set upon Mr Adler in a loop hotel hallway hoping to beet beat him into unc unconsciousness drug him and end smuggle him rum to a D hideout hideout hide hide- out ut in a salesman's sample ample e trunk The victim was to have been held for 40 ransom Shortly before belore Mayos Majo's suicide police police po po- po lice had arrested James Lacey of Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines Iowa whom they suspected as ns Mayos Mayo's accomplice in the daring plot that was frustrated by Mr Adlers Ad l lers rs vigorous resistance Lacey Laccy was captured in a south side apartment Less than two hours after alter the suicide sui sut cide Sergeant Thomas Kelly announced an announced that Lacey ignorant of his companions companion's death made full con conS of his share in the plot against Mr Adler Mayo had tied a silk scar scarf over the bars at the top of his cell knotted it around his neck and jumped from a bench Two Held in Plot To Kidnap Banker WINCHESTER Ind md F Feb b. b 22 UP UPA A A plot to kidnap Elmer Eimer Kerr president president dent of ot the be Commercial bank of Union City by luring him to the I home lome here of James James' P. P Goodrich I former governor of ot Indiana during the he la laUer's latter's tiers tier's absence was announced ty by y police po ice Thursday Two negroes have been arrested and p police were seeking a third Herschel Herschel Herschel Her- Her schel Gee Go Goodrich's chauffeur in Indianapolis Those under arrest arc arc Gees Gee's wife vile and arida anda a man giving his name name as John Co Copeland eland |