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r UP CA Principal Figures and Scenes in Tacoma Abduction Drama Seizure in Salt Lake Of Couple Results in Solution of Kidnaping Auto Yields Tliousands in Kansom Lash Gty Detective Nabs Women in Act of Attempt ing lo Pass Part of Ransom Money Con- fession of Pair Results Suspect in Kidnap Case Abandons $15000 in ‘Hot Money s ' : - ' (Coetin from Fin Om) (CmUbikS trees Past Oo kad obtained enough of a confss-io- n from both Waley and hi wlf to Insure aoiutlon of th kldnaplny that held the nation lit uapene lor weeka While th fovernment kept th detail of th eonfefon secret enough of th detail ha leaked out a to indicate that th kid Ransom Bill List Found frame Street WASHINGTON June UP) —When officers found th abandpnd auto with 115000 Speaking crisply nd spelling out name Hover told bar details and then smiled as he said other detail! “must welt until later” Both Waley and Mahan had criminal record he said and their photographs were among the more than fiv million carefully filed in th eteel cases on th upper floors of the justice building Questioned about th woman in th case Hoover said there wsr few details available Asked if sh was th “beautiful blond" mentioned In dispatches as having passed ransom bills on th routs between Tacoma and Salt Lake City Hoover said with a grin: “That’s probably Just newspapermen’s license” Says Family Joyous As th news flashed to Tacoma J P Weyerhaeuser wealthy young lumberman and father ofjthe victim was Joyous “Fine! Great! That's good news" he said when informed tty th As" sociated Pres Hoover paused as he gave the descriptions of Mahan and Waley to note that both had been arrested sentenced and paroled on other charge “Mahan was sentenced to 20 years for robbery at Boise Idaho in 1927" he said “But he seems to hav been paroled for some reason or another” First Hint of Break It was th flight of Mahan It Butts away from the “gray grsen" car officer had been hunting several days with the telltale ransom found later that gave th first hint of solution In the case Policeman James Mooney at m this morning Butte it T noted a familiar face— someone he thought he had arrestttd before —as he approached th carl Th man fled over a back fence and building top before Mooney could draw his gun Ha returned to search th car and found th ran- In Machine Hoping waa planned In a little house on Seventh West Mahan vU known to have torhe to Salt Lake City about March 20 house at 847 8outh renting- Seventh "West street He told the landlord that bis nam was ii I Davl that h waa a furnace sale man and that he spent but little f time In his quarter Mahan- drove"' grayish” grssn Bulck sedan bearing Washington license plate This la believed to have been the kidnap nutomobil which packed the Weyerhaeuser hoy over the Washington roads while the snatchers were negotiating with the youngster's parent On March 30 Mahan walked Into the Fred A Carleton Automobile company storeroom at East Fifth South street and purchased a Ford V-- 8 two-dosedan H paid 1850 ' for the machine The llcenae num5 ber wer registered to H E Davis 847 South Ssvsnth ‘ West street Officials of ths Carleson company Said that th purchaser of the auto mobile gave his nam as Davl but they declared that the buyer was an slderly man who explained that he1 waa a itove salesman Mahan la about 33 years old ’ Mahan and Waley plotted th kidh frame house and naping shortly after April 1 they together with their confederate started for th Psclfi northwest - Wsley Drsve Bulck Waley Is believed to i have driven the Bulck car while Mahan was at th wheel of his newly purchased Ford Arriving In Tacoma th hand took Ita tlm about swinging Into action tbs men taking every precaution against a blunder in th crlms that was to net them $200000 After getting tbs giant package at bills th gang hid th Bulck Sedan It was admitted by Waley “if I wer there I think I could lead you to it” Wsley is purported to hav told ths government questioner That is one reason why Connslly la so determined to get Waley back to tho aceno of th kidnaping as soon as possible Drove t Huntington Mahan may hav driven Wsley to Huntington Or wher ths latter admitted be paid for a ticket to Balt Lake City The passing of the “snatch” money was th first bill known to have left the hands of lha kidnaper Mahan then drove straight to Butts Mont th officers declare H was probably planning to dispose of some of tho “hot” money during th coming week Wher Mahan had obtained his funds prior to tho kidnaping is not known to th officers although they bellevt he was a holdup and n Safecracker Termed 'Principal Mahan termed by Hoover as "one of th principals” was described as follows: Fiv feet 10 8 Inches tall 156H pound regular build black hair brown eve medium light complexion 33 years old Tbs department of justice said Mahan also is known by th following names: William Morrell "William Dratnard William Morrell William Dinard Bill Donner Jack Mahon F E Davl A L Davl office her after newspapermen had been summoned of tba Weyerhaeuser kidnap money In it today at Butt Mont they alao found aerial list of th ransom bill This was revealed tonight by Director 3 Edgar Hoover of ths division of Investigation' as bs announced th car belonged to William Mahan target mow of a nation-wid- e hunt rHoever-salthe llst from a newspaper bad been checked apparently byl Mahan as bs passed tbs ransom -bills— i d ths bl I ts Officer Roger T nine-year-o- ld who hastily checked his list jDIscovsr-wa- s on of th fhol cur Ing it rency is detained th woman Th woman declared she bad obtained the money on th previous day fiom a store and although sh had two ft notea In heif puree eh wanted to change th Urger bill In order to loan a portion of the money j to a relative Officer Rogers escorted th women Ito the federal building offices of the department of justice He then (returned to tji store to con' tlnus Jils checking of every 55 $10 and $20 not presented to th clerk Latte in the afternoon Officer Rogers reported that “I guess they’ve turned her loos I believe she was telling th truth" Trace Husband But the juatlc department operative finally learned that ths woman's husband was Walty and that b had been arrested by Salt Lake City$ollc In 1933 Bom officers say that Waley was arrested Saturday at I p m Others declare that h was taken Into custody at midnight Officers Rogers and Gifford worked with th government In the apprehension of Waley Louis D Wins special agent in charge of (he government officer her saiil th arreet was mad “on th street” Others declare h waa caught at his home at 460 East Fifth South street Acting Chief Cooperate Captain O B Record acting ctiief of police offered th government his entire force If neceasary But th justice department conducted Its sntlr investigation with ths assistance of only about five patrol men Captain Record himself worked day and night after th discovery of th 20 ransom notes on Friday and conferred with Agent Connelly a number of time Saturday and Sunday Th officers searched every part of th house which th Waleya had occupied for a short time but they wer unsuccetaful In their hunt for more of th ranaom currency Th tgenta declared they would make another aearch Monday and expressed the belief that Mr Waley knew more about th cache than eh had admitted in her first confession ' Face Death Sentence a faces sen death posilhl Waley tenc under th federal kidnap law but th pair are not liable to prosecution under any Utah statute Attorney General Joseph Ches said Sunday “There Is no law In tho stato of Utah under which they could be Jack Devi prosecuted here” Mr Ches said Mahan has Served tlm in the “Th passing of stolen money Is not Idaho state prison for robbery and a crime her” In the Montana state prison for Reck Coup bank robbery Police early Monday wsr seek Prison Record lng a 1929 Ford coup bearing Utah Waley th department reported license 137-1Department of jusWas sent to the Washington reform tice agents notified tb police that school at Chehalla In 1929 for bur- th machine was Wsley' property glary a year later waa sentenced to Several automobile camps wer serve from on to 15 years on visited but little Information was similar count In 1931 received s obtained by th investigator “ suspended sentence of between two HOQUIAM Wash Jun 8 and 15 years for second degree burpallet recalled her toglary Waley was arrested by Detective night that Harmon M Waley alWeyerhaeuser kidnaper Rogers In Salt Lake City in No- leged vember 1933 on an automobile started a crime career at th age of IS in this city theft Charge But because of Insufficient evidence he waa allowed to He was arrested three times In 1927 for a curfew violation guilty to vagrancy and given May ' plead illegal possession of whisky and a a floater burglary Woman's First Arrest Later in the sam year ha was The department of justice and the sentenced to tb state training that school at Chehalla for attempting police department reported Mr Waley had never been arrest- to rob a safe In the McCleary hotel la of her at McCleary Wash known ed before Little family history although the police Suspected Burglar aid her maiden name was Von After being released from th general’s office befor h would act Met Wnlev nndhis wife wer closely training school Waley was sought He also said there was little likei valis as member of a shotgun lihood of th prisoners being taken guarded from all persons except to th Pacific northwest until they The halls burglary gang the government officer were cleared every time the couple Both Aberdeen and Hoquiam po- were heard by Federal Judge Tillwer moved from one room to an- lice recalled that W aley along with man D Johnson another man named Walter Tltt-ma- n Even If th couplt sought to other was arrested in Idaho in 1930 walv removal proceeding It waa described The Waley government 4 as 8 feet 1 Inrn tall 24 years of and both wer sentenced to th State deemed likely that the- - attorney general would ask for ths hearing age well built with light hair and penitentiary At 2 a m Monday th justice de- it wa said weighing about ‘200 pound s Th woman la about 8 feet 8 partment announced that th would not b removed to the ' Inches tall blond and police said Sings at Pocatello teens of th kidnaping “for several sh was "fair looking " POCATELLO Idahd — Emma at hours least” a indicating that Pays Hansom Note removal hearing would be held Lucy Gate prime donna soprano Mr Wsley cVcrjd the $J ranAssistant District Attorney John will Monday at 8 30 p m la som not as on a email 3 Boyden said that he was await- bs appear Adelaide Anderson recital hall purchase Stoi attache eubmltted ing instructions from th attorney on North Hayes avenue or UUh-ll-T9- in-t- l som money Hoover tonight asked reporters to thank local officers for “their fine cooperation” as he listed six of them by name Previous to tonight’s announcement Hoover’s conversation with th press had been limited to “we are working" shortly after th child was taken away and then an unvaried “no comment” as fragmentary reports on tho ssardh wer received from tho locality of th kidnaping and other point Waley criminal record as listed by the department of justice started with' a sentence to the Chehalla Wash reform school in 1929 for burglary received a 2 to sentence on another burglary count In 1931 a similar sentence for grand larceny a few months later and was given six months on n vagrancy charge In 1933 He was picked up in Tacoma In 1934 for Investigation as a parol violator His last registration as a criminal was made at Camden N October 29 1934 The Justice department record did not show th occasion for the registration The kidnapers of the Weyer-laeusboy face n maximum federal penalty of life since the “Lindbergh law” carries th death penalty only when the kidnaping victim is harmed ar -- 6 4 i 1 Mahan Faces Charges On Five Bank Holdups SEATTLE Wash June (A1 — William Mahan sought as on of ths kidnapers of Georgs Weyerhaeuser of Tacoma also Is on wanted charges of holding up five banks In this state In which $22000 In loot waa obtained polico said hers tonight Better known locally aa William JLDainard police said Mahan served sentences in both tho Montana and Washington stats penitentiarle Both police and sheriffs officers said they had been seeking Mahan sines ths Weyerhaeuser boy was kidnaped Other aliases said by polico to havo been assumed by Mahan Include! William Mohan William Merrill William & Grant J W (AV-Hoqu- iam Wa-ley- 1 er 4 ( I Mora Bill Donner1 William Daln-er- and Thomas Reynold 4 -- d r WANTED Scenes and figures In the kidnaping of old George Weyerhaeuser Tacoma Wash heir to lumber million (1) The palatial Weyerhaeuser homo in Tacoma (2) A Visualisation of the $200009 ransom cash which was paid In $20 $10 and $3 federal reserve note (3) Mr J P Weyerhaeuser JrH mother of tho kidnap youth (4) George the victim after his release after a week in the hands of the gang (5) J P Weyerhaeuser Jr his father wealthy northwest lum- Stalin: Benes Discuss ber operator (6) An aerial view of Tacoma Conditions of Accord showing the route taken by George home frtom school on tho day of the abduction (71 Earl Robinson Tacoma taxi driver who brought the MOSCOW June 9 OD—Josef St lin soviet dictator conferred today boy home on the day of his release with Eduard Benes foreign minis“ ter of on the dethought he was landing in GerFrance Jails Nazi Pilot and Beaten to Death many but he was held for a hearvelopment of relatione between th: LOS ANGELES Jun 9 UF— Vic- two countrle ns a result of the on charges of flying over a forLanding in Fort Zone ing tim of two street assailant Dr mutual assistance pact they ratified bidden are W El Harrison a veterinarian died yesterday SAAREGUE MINES France today In a Beverly Hills hospital Th conversation was entirely in Duce Mimic "Banned June 9 (iTt-- A German flier Joaof head wounds received In front Russia which Ben: speaks perchim Seegert who landed In a fortiBUCHAREST June 9 (UPl-- Aa of a beer parlor near his home fectly This was the firat tlm fied ions June 7 was jailed today a result of diplomatic protest pohail been nbl to talk without after an investigation ' lice today banned stage perform- considerable success with imita- an Interpreter to visiting' statesTh flier said h had been lost ances of a comedian a ho had won tions of Premier Benito Mussolini man ' r I Jlf I fc— — Csscho-Slovak- la rnmmmmmmmmmm St-li- A' M n 50 Canyon Cabins With a scarcity of houses In the gity—there’s $ big demand for canyon cottages LM row In Column e JUeo H and til fin vacation Iron tbs proceed - ! 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