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Show -3:MEH BELIEVED TO BE IMPLICATED IN CHILDTHEFT Ransom Bettered Paid as Search by Detectives Is Dropped. y United Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo, June 4 That three men were Involved In the kidnaping kid-naping of Baby Lloyd , Keet last Wednesday Is the opinion of police here todsy. Two -people. Mrs. 8. E. Palmer, a neighbor, and her daughter. Gladys, both told officials today that they saw three men lurking In the shadows at Meadow Mere, the Keet home, on the night of the abduction. Later, they say. the men drove away In an automobile. Mr and Mrs. Keet seemed more cheerful today. Keet still Insists on placing the blame for his failure In recovering re-covering his child uoon his over-gealoua over-gealoua friends, who followed him during dur-ing his wild drjve over the flooded roads of Greene county on Thursday night. Keet has been flooded with letters, l.la, p. wr m -tlat fn.O.M flOm dC tectlves and other amateurs and "Informers," "In-formers," who say they can recover the missing baby. After paying tolls on more than a hundred, he refused to accept any from the telegraph com-pany com-pany todav. A significant turn In the case was the dropping of the search by police authorities snd detectives. It Is believed be-lieved thst the millionaire has turned the ransom money over to abductors and they are waiting for the excitement excite-ment to die down before restoring the child. |