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Show MONTANA BOY KIDNAPS blX-YtAH OLD CHILD. Desssaded a Hansons of I.SOO - Child fcaeepMt sad Klarn.d llossoaad Mtdnapper la Arrsaled. Lai Thursday afternoon 0. W. Ryan, a irominent grocer of Great Falls. Mont., received a note directing him to leave SI. 5o at a certain point aa a ransom for hia aix-yrar-old bob. Unless th demand waa complied with by 0:30 Ihe threat waa mail that la places of glass would be rammed Into tha child's eyes aod his bands ent off. Ths police wer notified and a search mad for th boy and th kidnaper. About a o'clock th missing child walked Into hie father's store, gaggsd and crying, but otherwise unharmed. II said b bad been kidnaped shortly sfter school by a boy named Hooth-wlck, Hooth-wlck, who had first taken him to hia horns, and afterward to a apot h conld not local. Th Honthwlck boy was soon found and arrested, lie la alnoil 12 year old, and at Brat declared that he bad been told to ateal the ICyan boy aud writ aod deliver th note by two mra. Afterward he confessed that h did th deed of hia own volition, and that he had oo accomplices. He expressed no repenlcuce, and aald: "1 would have bit lb old man for Si.ooo If 1 thought he would have stood for IL" |