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Show KIDNAPER GETS I 35 YEARS AS 1 HE CONFESSES I Swimming Girl Found Nearly Near-ly Dead From Terrible Treatment UNABLE TO SPEAK Feeling High in Community Where Child Was Wronged MUSKEGON. Mich., Nov. 2. Ray- j I H mond E Wilson, of Grand Rapid. j ! who pleaded guilty today to a charge of the kidnaping of 11-year-old Ro- 1 ! salle Shanty, was sentenced by Judgo 9I 1 Vanderwerp in circuit court this aft- II I ernoon to from J.'. to n y. ..rs lmpris- ;vjl ; onment in the state prison at Mar- H j quette. II Little Rosalie, widely known as a H swimmer, was found ln the swamps HDI j of Manistee county where she had Lfl been abandoned by Wilson. Belief H lis expressed that the child may not 11(1 j recover, having suffered greatly from ; ,; exposure i UNDER) HE WY GUARD. Wilson Is held ln the county Jail :, 'M here under heavy guard and he con- fessed to the kidnaping. sH In his statement to the authorities Wilson said lie enticed the child int.i HH his automobile as she was leaving a hurch h.rc Sunday, drove her about the city for a time, then started for Dublin Near that town, the reported stat-in -nt said. Rosalie became alarm-ed alarm-ed and asked to be let wut of the car. Wllsnn said he left her near a farm II house, and then returned to Grand 1 Rapids, The prisoner declared he was j intoxicated when he took the girl HI into his car. and was unable to ex-plain ex-plain his action. t M f.IVG RtVS UJMT. Pftivu ran Uig ,a M'jsfccgon when ' H became known todu tU.K W;fs-a was being ii M In r. ;in numerom I deputy sheriffs and police rcsen e3 were called out to guard against dis- orders A strong cordon was thrown around the jail and citizens were not i" rmltt. 1 t.i i-.-nu-r.-g.-ir.- in M e str 's j ; for blocks around the building : Wilson is 41 years old and has bern married twice ifftcers said . HH has a police record here and has (sered a term In Jackson prison. . GIRD is FOUND. ; It was near imblln ln th' Manistee Jack Pine country, where the girl was found by a farmer, oJy partly cloth-ed. cloth-ed. and suffering from cold and in-Juries in-Juries sustained In her search through tho brush for shelter. The child lapsed into unconscious- BH ncss soon after being taken to a farm-house farm-house and had not been able to tell br story. physician said he fear- wl ed she would not recover and added i that the child had been mistreated. "Nothing la wrong with me. moth-cr." moth-cr." Rosalie kept repeating ln her j'" delirium. ' , LONG SEARCH ENDED. The finding of tho girl by Jo Prceslk ended a search throughout Illinois, Indiana and Michigan Suffering from exposure, her cloth-ing cloth-ing hanging in shreds and her body nt ;in.i bruised b br.'mblc.v little H.'B Kosalb Shanty, 11-year-old swimming 3H and diving marvel, lies in a serious condition. !! i) A physician who Is In constant at-tendance at-tendance at the bedside of the child ! at tho home ot Prod Zlnk. Dublin. Is reported by officers us having said that tho girl had been attacked and MM roughly handled. nor lonuiuon is growing steadily worse. v When found by Joe Preeksi, a far-mer; far-mer; three and a half miles cast of l Dublin. Rosllc was wet from splash-'Ing splash-'Ing through a small creek and her body was bleeding from barbed wlro land underbrush cuts. The girl wore c" hat and no underclothing. I Rosalie Was kidnaped Sunday as sh. j returned from church, when a m:m drove up In b iw- did i nn.; ! H .was the father of one of the girl's lit- ' : tic chums, He asked the child's moth-ei moth-ei if Rosalie could como and have dinner with his daughter. Mrs. Shanty iis said to have given her consent with IH the proviso that Hosalie must be home bel ire dark. |