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Show TRAP LAID FOR KIDNAPER FAILS Two Detroit Business Men Drop From Sight; Letter Demands $35,000 DETROIT. Dec. 24. -Det Ctives and deputy sheriffs lay in amhush six! hours last night at an unfrequented spot near Monroe, In a futPfl effort ! to apprehend writers of g ieti"r re-1 celved early this w. ek by relatives of I 'red Hsmmetev and J. Walter V'e,t-zel, V'e,t-zel, who disappeared recently, in whleh the men were said to he held prisoners and 'vould he released for a 3?i 000 ransom. If terms of their release were not compiled with, the letter "threatened, the men would "be I put to death and their bodies shipped 1 to Detroit.' I Both men. prominent In business circles, dropped from slghi I H m . -r j 4. A few days later, their lutom'o-blle lutom'o-blle was found in the Detroit river I near the Fifteenth street dock oo |