ANOTHER SUSPECT ARRESTED

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21993, 18 January 1937, Page 10

ANOTHER SUSPECT ARRESTED

KIDNAPPING CASE IN AMERICA v (Received’’January 17, 11.30 p.m.) TACOMA, January 16. •Dr, Mattson, in an interview, asscribed the kidnapping and murder of his son to a bungling fiend and an accomplice. He expressed confidence that they would be apprehended, and said he was sure that the kidnappers, when they reached the stage where they were ready to receive the ransom, found that the boy knew too much and dared not release him, so they destroyed him. Drl ’Mattson said his son would not have died in vain if thei kidnapping stimulated the previously aroused public to even more drastic laws for the prevention and punishment of kidnapping. He had nothing but the highest praise for the Federal Bureau and others who had worked on the case. The authorities have released Fred. Hayes, a former convict, who was arrested yesterday. Federal agents and the police redoubled the hunt to-day. to discover the kidnappers’ lair - near Everett, where a watchmah reported that he heard a child’s scream on the night of January 6, possibly at the time when the boy was killed. Another suspect in the case, Arthur Madsden,. aged 26, who admitted that he was once an inmate of a Washington hospital as insane, is being hgld at Sacramento for investigation. An identification expert took samples of his handwriting. Madsden hesitated in spelling “Mable,” the name used in the advertisements in theattempt by Dr. Mattson to communicate with the kidnapper. The suspect was not clear whether it-was spelled “le” or “el.” Madsden, who was arrested on the information of a bank official that he had acted strangely, admitted that he knew; Dr. Mattson; and that a member of his family had .once been treated by him. The doctor, -however, is unable to recall having treated the person named. If is divulged that his parents received three letters from the boy dictated by the kidnapper. Numerous telephone calls for a rendezvous with the kidnapper were received, blit every time the doctor attempted to meet him nobody appeared.