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KIDNAPERS ARE STILL OBJECTS OF WIDE HUNTGovernment Agents Traci Down Many Clues After Weyerhaeuser ReleaseSEEN IN HOLLYWOOD?Car Filling Description of Abductors’ Machine Is Found AbandonedBy LELAND HANNUMlt;Cop right, 1933, By The Associated Prets)TACOMA, Wash., June 3—— Department of Justice agents distributing circulars describing the 20,000 bank notes which bought freedom of 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser declined to comment today whether the Chicago arrest of the gangster Volney Davis was linked with the Tacoma kidnaping.Governemnt agents disclosed knowledge of the authenticity of a ' Seattle newspaper article today which said a mysterious automobile found in Seattle Saturday after George was freed, belonged to George’s uncle, F. Rodman Tit-comb. They also denied knowledge of the newspaper’s report that Tit-comb was the intermediary who delivered the ransom to the kidnapers; that the transaction was in the woods near Elme, about 60 miles west of here, and that the kidnapers set Titcomb afoot by stealing his car.The newspaper (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) said Titcomb was found by Charles Ingram, assistant general manager of the timber company, who followed him in another car.Ingram and Titcomb, like all others close to the case, have refused to comment.The investigators refused to reveal who paid the Weyerhaeuser ransom and when or where it was paid. George was quoted Saturday as saying Titcomb paid it. It was not revealed how he knew.The bulletin describing the ransom money lists the numbers of nine United States notes and of 19,-991 federal notes.The federal reserve notes are all of the “L” series but are not in sequence. Thus it takes 55 booksire pages to list the bills, starting w-ith j “L00000034A-” and “L00003778 (asterisk!” and ending with “L35643933A” and ”! 35979275A ”The lis»ta were being distributed to banks and all other places where large amounts of money are handled.The hoy, unharmed, was released early Saturday after a member of his family paid the kidnapers the $200,000 in used currency they demanded.Kidnapers VanishedAs soon as George was safe at home, the federal agents went into action. The kidnapers, meanwhile, r had vanished. Highway traps w'ere * set. One in northeastern Oregon, ■ promised results, but came to nothing. A suspected automobile spoed-FORD SEDAN FOUNDLOS ANGELES, June 3——A tan ford sedan answering the description of a machine in which the sheriff of Kern county north of here said two men were riding who resemhled suspects wanted in the $200,000 George Weyerhaeuser kidnaping w’as found abandoned in north Hollywood today.Preparations were made to take fingerprints from the car and simultaneously police began a search of underworld haunts on the possibility some of the | Weyerhaeuser kidnapers may , have fled here from the north- j west.A Glendale hotel was searched after a policeman said he saw a man resembling Alvin Karpis, puhlie enemy No. 1. enter It, but the search was futile.The license plates had been i removed from the car. /d through Great Falls, Mont., last ight and was immediately pursued. Wires hummed with descriptions(( otit ni'ieU oi I’aire Two!
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Miami Daily News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Mon, Jun 03, 1935
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