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Show WOMAN SUSPECTEr IN KIDNAPING ' , OF CHILD '-1 Father Denies Report That He Has Paid $6000 . Ransom. . By International News service. . SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 2 A score of detectives were set at work tonight dogging the footsteps of strange women In Springfield, on the theory that one of them may know the whereabouts of 14 months-old Lloyd Keets, heir to 3.000,000 estate. es-tate. ' " The police now feel certain that woman was a member, if not the directing di-recting geniua. of the gang of kid- napers that carried off the Infant while his father. J. Holland Keets, and his mother were dancing at the Country Coun-try club. They believe they may . find another remarkable woman crinv J inal of the type of Helen Boyle olt "Billy" Wtaltla kidnaping fame. 4 Another study this afternoon of the letter received by Mr. Keets le"B .lag-ransom, led.. detectives to ..believe that the writer was not only a an. but a woman of education. The author misspelled several simple words. In an apparent ellort to lead the authorities sstray. , Mr. Keets stoutly denied this aftee- ( noon a report that he had paid over the $6000 ransom money on a myste rlous automobile trip he made laat night and was awaiting the return of his child. He said he had had no communication com-munication with the kidnapers since Thnreiisy. |