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Show , vju : CLOTHING OF CHILD FOUND Idaho Falls, April 21. Evidence to substantiate the belief that little Alice Empey, the seven-year-old 5irl : who dlsappt aicd 'aet Sunday morning , after she left her home fbr Sunday school, has been kidnaped, was discovered dis-covered todaj-. A small piece of cloth i with a button attached, apparently from the child's underclothing, was found about half a mile from the Empey home. The cloth matches another an-other suit belonging to her. Th-3 finding of the cloth and button Indicates to the officers detailed to the cast that there was a struggle on ihe part of tho child, during which her clothing was torn. This would strengthen the theory that she had been kidnaped as a measure of retaliation retalia-tion for the conviction of Alonzo Bean who kidnaped her uncle, Ernest Empey, Em-pey, last July, and held him prisoner in the mountains ten days before Empey Em-pey escaped. Bean is now serving a ten-year sentence sen-tence in the Idaho state prison for his offense, and it has been the belief heje that his friends have taken the girl in retaliation for Bean's punish-ment. |