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ement t Police“Guilty” Amnctiit** Pr««i Photo.VOLNEY tlAVIM,Link of Davis in Weyerhaeuser Snatch SecretPamphlets Issued Describing Notes Used in Ransom.TACOMA, Wash., (AP).—Department Of justice agents began distributing pamphlets listing the numbers of 20,000 currency ransom notes here today as they sought to pick up the cooling trail of the kid- j napers of the 9-year-old George! Weyerhaeuser.The bulletin docs not mention the Weyerhaeuser case, merely describing it as “a kidnaping case.Agents received the pamphlets this morning after they had reported they were informed Vdiney Davis, aide of Alvin Karpis snatch gang and mentioned as a suspect in the *200,000 Weyerhaeuser kidnaping, had been arrested in Chicago. The man was reported hurried from Chicago by airplane last night, but federal /Ken said he was not being brought here,G-Men Say Aid Of Karpis Not in Most Recent CaseGangster Caught at Chicago and Sped Away.AT, PAW* CAP*.—Federal •*«-« IaU here, who declined t« the use of their name*, said tat* today they were convinced Felney |avts was not connected with the Weyerhaeuser abduction. Dari* nlcused ealltv earlier to conspiracy in the imWN) Edward G. Bremer kidnaping.File* Out of City.CHICAGO. (AP.—Volney Davis, lieutenant of Alvin Karpis and suspected kidnaper, was reported today In custody of federal agents.No am at the Chicago police of-the department of justice would either deny or confirm the report today,However, airport employe* report ed last night that a group of armed federal men escorted a man who answered the description of Davis to the field and hustled hint aboard a privately chartered plane which took off Immediately for an unannounced destination They aatd ttyt prisoner was manacled to two aMnts and that two additional government men boarded the plane. Leas than an hour previous, Melvin Purvis, in charge of the Chicago federal forces, left hi* office with a squad of iren. He declined to say where they were bound, remarking only that he wae ‘'going out for some air.Operatives Mum on Ransom.Operatives refused to comment on published reports the kidnapers were paid the ransom money by George’s uncle, F Rodman Titcomb ; Thursday,In that report the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today said the abductors then stole Titeomb's car—the machine which was the “kidnap car’’ recovered here. The paper said the ransom was paid in the foothills of the Cascades, about fifty miles east of Issaquah where George was released Saturday. It said Titcomb was picked up by his mmmnrtrnt* in the Weyerhaeuser 'limber company, Charles Ingram, af-Destination Uncertain.The Chicago Herald and Examiner in a copyright story said fcha man was Davis and that the lad-leral men were taking Wn t»Paul where he is under tndietmaq*for the Edward G. Bremer kidnai*-ing or to Tacoma, Wash., for questioning in connection with the snatching of George Weyerhaeuseryoung lumber heir.At the Chicago municipal airpod employes said the plane which Moff allegedly with Davis, shouH have reached St. Paul before midnight. No ship answering its description was reported landing at the twin cities several hours later.One ship of a similar type landed at the Madison, Wla, airport at 10 p. m. (Greenville time) laat night because of unfavorable weather, but It took off again SO minutes later. Airport authorities there declined to discuss the ship, it*I passengers, or its destination.Another report was that the un-t identified ship had headed for j Kansas City.Volney Davis was reported identified tentatively as cm* of the Weyerhaeuser kidnap gang, but this arrest here Friday might tend to eliminate him ms a suspect. Davis was arrested by federal men last February, but made a spectacular break at Yorkv.lle, Hi, by striking his guard over the h«»d
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