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Show mmm mm mm to salt tm t . ' . : - Federal Agents in City Are Ordered , To VJork on Case Two Men, Assigned to Job, Leave to Help Denver Den-ver Authorities ABDlCT 0RS IDENTIFIED Boettscher Family Waits in Vain for Message The hunt for Charles Boettcher II, wealthy Denver business man, who was kidnaped Sunday night and is being held for $60,000 ransom, was extended to Utah Tuesday when the Sslt Lake office of the United Statei bureau of investigaUon was ordered to cooperate with the Denver authorities. au-thorities. Vsl C. Zimmer and A. R. Gere, agents working out of the Salt Lakt office, have been assigned to the cass snd are en route to Denver, while the remaining agents here are alsc taking up the investigation, M. T. Lit Ue, acting agent in charge, reported. AH of the local enforcement agencies as welt as the railroad special spe-cial agents hsve been requested by the local office to sid in locating Mr. Boettcher and apprehending his kid-nepers, kid-nepers, Mr, Little ssid. Under the federal law enacted after the Lindbergh kidnaping, the government govern-ment has authority to act only when ransom Is demanded through the mails or the kidnaped person is taken across a state line. Mr. LitUe said. If the entire crime is committed within with-in a state, federal agenta have no . Jurisdiction, but will lend their full ; cooperation in solving the case. I Denver Kidnapers Are Identified (Br a eii listed rmst DENVER, Feb. 14 Identification ; of two men who kidnaped and are ' holding for $60,000 ransom Charles Boettcher II, wealthy Denver investment invest-ment broker, was announced today by (Gontinuee en Pmee Three) rata willingness to deal with tha kidnapers. kid-napers. Thar waa nothing left (or them to do but wait. As tha hour wore on, with nothing but an ominous silence, the tension in th Boettcher mansion waa near the breaking point. Even the Iron-willed Claod Boettcher, Boet-tcher, whose poker face and cold nerve have been the subjects f a hundred stories during his rise to the peek of financial power in Denver, showed the strain. He was nervous anspped quick, harsh commands to those around him, and the rasping Jang la of tha telephone caused him to leap to th instrument. At the home of the missing man, Mrs. Chsrles Boettcher, hi wife, was near collapse. Chief of Pollc Albert T. Clark, who solved the only other kidnaping for ransom In Denver history only a year ago, was confident he was on the track of the two men who took Boettcher prisoner 1st Sunday night and have held him sine. Clsrk even predicted the release of the young millionaire within 41 hours, unharmed, un-harmed, and without a cent of ransom. ran-som. But even th high grilled wall around the Boettcher home failed to keep out the fear that waa plain In every face, from old Charlie, the grandfather, who amassed tha first of tha Boettcher fortunes, to Anna Lou. 23-year-old heartbroken wile of the kidnaped man, Chief Clark said he had been Informed In-formed by Chicago police that Louis (Diamond Jack) Alterle, former Chi-csgo Chi-csgo gsngster, who was at first sought for questioning In connection with the kidnaping, is living in Santa Fe, N. M., under an assumed nsme. Clark said yesterday he had abandoned aban-doned tha aearch for Alter!, KIDNAP SEARCH MOVESTO S. L. - lOealUnw Press Pass Oat) Chief of Pollc A. T. Clsrk. who said th kidnapers wer "a couple of racketeers who have beea her the last year." The chief declined to reveal how the identification wss made, but It waa presumed Mrs. Boettcher, who wss with her husband Sunday night when he was bustled into the kidnapers' kidnap-ers' car, had Identified the men from rogues' gallery photographa. Previously Clark had ssid, "Well hsve the case cleaned up In 4s hours." I Clark said he believed a telephone call received last night at the home of Claude Boettcher, Colorado multimillionaire multi-millionaire and father of the missing miss-ing man, was the first attempt of the kidnapers to contact the family. A butler answered the telephone. Clark ssid, and a voice asked if it waa the Boettcher home. Answered In th affirmative, the butler waa told to "hold the wire."' Five minutes later the butler said he heard the click of the receiver as tha line waa disconnected. discon-nected. Mrs. Mlllson McCormlck, mother of Boettcher, who has been visiting her sitser, Mrs. Harry Haley in Kansas Kan-sas City, arrived today and was taken immediately to the Claud K. Boettcher home. Mrs. McCormlck was notified of the kidnaping of bar son by Mrs. Boettcher. Letter or Prion Call Awaited In Kidnaping DENVER. Feb. 14 UP) A letter or a telephone call from the kidnapers kidnap-ers of Charles Boettcher II was awaited await-ed today. Every Instruction contained In the ransom letter for communication with tha abductors hsd been carried out by the frantic family of th young Denver millionaire. They are willing to pay the full 160,-000 160,-000 ransom, or anything, for the safe return of young Boettcher. They inserted the prescribed advertisement adver-tisement In the newtpspers to indl- |