Bungling Fiend and Accomplice

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 14, 18 January 1937, Page 6

Bungling Fiend and Accomplice

i PERPETRATORS OF MATTSON i KIDNAPPING. i l r United Press Association—By Electric > Telegraph.—-Copyright. * Roceived Sunday, 10.20 p.m. TACOMA, Jan. IG. i Dr. Mattson, in an interview, as cribed the kidnapping and murder oi J his son to a bungling fiend and hts accomplice. He expressed confidence in’ I their apprehension and said he was > sure the kidnappers when they reached the stage where they were ready to receive the ransom found tho boy • knew too much and dared not release ■ him so they destroyed him. ! His boy would not have died in vain if the kidnapping stimulated the prei viously aroused public to even more drastic laws for the prevention and ■ punishment of kidnapping. He had 1 nothing but the highest praise for tne i Federal Bureau and others who worked on the case. The authorities have released the suspect Hays. Federal agents and the police redoubled the hunt to-day to discover the kidnapper's hide-out in the vicinity where a watchman reported he had heard the child's screams on the night of the 6th. Possibly at that time the boy was slain. Another Kidnapper Suspect Arrested ONCE IN INSANE ASYLUM. Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16. Another suspect in tho Mattson case named Arthur Madsen, aged 26, who admitted that he was once an inmate of a Washington hospital as ins.nc, is being held at Sacramento for investigation. An identification expert took handwriting samples. Madsen hesitated in spelling M&ble, the name used m the advertisements, in an attempt by the Mattsons to communicate with t*.o kTunapper. The suspect was not clear whether it was spelled “le" or “ell." Madsen, who was arrested upon the information of a bank official that he ! acted strangely, admitted he knew the doctor and that a member of his ftftniiy had been onto treated by him. The doctor, however, was unable to recall having treated the person named. It is divulged that the parents received three letters from the boy dictated by tho kidnapper, and numerous telephone calls for a rendezvous with the kidnapper were received, but every time the doctor attempted to m%et him nobody appeared. The doctor doctor will give a Press conference to-morrow to set at rest criticisms of mismanagement in an attempt to redeem the boy and of the efforts by the authorities to secure flie identification of the kidnapper. Frenzied Mothers Attempt Lynching Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. The frenzied effort of mothers and friends of three school girls to lynch a man who took youngsters for an automobile drive and made advances, was frustrated by the police who arrested him. The girls were found hysterical two hours afterwards. Officials are seriously disturbed lest overwraught nerves, particularly in women, are the result of this case .and tho Mattson murders.