New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1928, Page 2

BY HS KIDNAPERS Ghicago Ilan Boy Sulers Only Black Eye " Chicago, Sept. 19 UP—A little Yoy with a black eve wandercd into & Jaliet, LI, filling station last night and :the 13 day search for the kid- usped Billy Ranieri was ended. | Yt was a very calm who said to the station attendant,| George Mats: "I want to go home.| I've been kidraped.” Calm, parti-| cularly ip view of the rfact that his disappeasance, the demand for $65,- 000 ransom for his return and a se- quence of threatening letters to his parents had numbed with dread the Sieillan community of Chicago in which he lived. . Tells Story -The lad; who is 10 years old, was unhurt except for the eye discol-| oratfon caused, he said, by a blow | frém one of the kidnapers' fists. He téld a oonnected story of imprison- ment on a farm and had a good| word to say for the man and wom- an who were his jailers. His prin-| cipal point, which he repeatedly em-| phasized during the hours of ques-| to Joliet, Stege himself taking charge of the Questioning in an effort said. They stopped and one of the men gave him a £10 bl “Walk straight ahead,” the man told him, “until. you come to a street car track. Get om the car and tell the conductor you want to 80 to Chicago. When you get there you can telephone your father.” Billy had walked about a_ mile when he reached the filling atation. Go To Jollet Chicago police immediately went Deputy Commissioner to learn where the boy was held prisoner. Billy’s father, A. Frank Ranieri, Sewer contractor, alse reached Jo- liet a few hours after the boy was found, but he was not permitted to youngster | see his son until the officers had I finishea ‘their questioning. Ranieri senior said he had not paid “a single cent” to the kidnap- ers. He would not say whether he planned to push the search for the extortionists or aid police who are holding three men In connection with the kidnaph ROBINSON PLANS 10 STUMP KENTUCKY ince Will Resume Campaign In- terrupted by Hurricane, Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 19 (P— NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, LOOK T0 COOLIDGE T0 STOP TROUBLE Railroad Men Appeal to The (Chief Executive Chicago, Sept. 19 (M—Represen- tatives of 55 western railroads and 70,000 trainmen and conductors now look to President Coolidge to ex- pedite a settlement of wage differ- ences between them. * The federal board of mediation, which has been attempting to recon- cile opposing demands of the unions and railway officials for the past week, announced yesterday that no adjustment of wages and the work- ing rule had been reached. v Two Mouths Delay No definite official action can be taken for two months, officials ex- plained, although the trainmen and conductors have voted in favor ot a strike. If President Coolidge should intervene and appoint a fact |finding commission, under the rail- |way labor act, the special board | Democratic Vice Presideatial Nom-|would have 30 days to investigate ;and report. If such a report were {made, the unions would e compel- {led to wait another 80 days before jacting. 1f the president should de- |cide to refrain from taking a hand, elimination of the double header rule in its entirety because it has been in effect for 37 years and is a settled condition of employment as much o as collective bargaining and the eight hour day.” Railroads have no need for two locomotives on a single train, Mr. | Curtis declared, explaining that they have ample equipment to move | more tonnage than they mow carry. LEAVE HUNT UP 10 THE CANADIANS Anthorities Still Investigating . Deaths on Galifornia Ranch Los Angeles, Sept. 19 (P—The | hunt for Gordon Stuart Northcott |and his mother, Mrs. Louisa North- cott, was left to Canadian authori- ties today as officers here broadened 1 their inveatigation of the Northcott “murder farm case” in search of evi- [dence that possibly more than four | boys were tortured and slain in this | | viclnity. | The search for Nerthcott and his | | mother was speeded when River- side, Calif., authorities, armed with what they declared was conclusive proof of slayings on the farm, issued | murder complaints. | Although the complaints were on charge of conspiracy, and bribery, District Attorney Mon- ahan declared today thatthe “first. ' Prescription WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1828 Canada and on the story of the [graft alliance are Deginning to youth's father, Cyrus G. Nerthoett, that his son had worn dresses and passed as a girl until he reached his "teens. Mrs. Northcott and *‘her daugher™ were reported in Saskatoon, Sask., yesterday morning. traced & report that a youth re. sembling young Northcott had at. tempted to work passage on a South American bound ship at Seattle yes- terday. Police also SAYS ALLIANCE IS OFF District Attorney Asserts First Line Defenses of Polico—Bootleg Graft Are Beginning to Cramble, Philadelphia, Sept. 18 (P—With five city detectives, a policeman and a member of a “saloonkeepers’ pro- ective association” under heavy bail extortion ine defenses of the police-bootleg crumble.” Other developments growing eut of the special grand jury's investiga- tion of bootlegging, gang murders and- underworld activities gomerally, included the suspension of twe police captains, John J. Kerns Willlem Frants, by superinten: of police Mills, who aasorted that they hed failed to fully comply with Mayer Mackey's cleanup order. A third district commander, Thomas R. Har- bridge, resigned and was alleged te have dimppeared while being sought on s grand jury subpens. “AS & result of thess develep- ments,” sald Mr. Monaghan, “we cxpect to make more arrests teday. “After more than & month ef fighting I believe we have broken the barriers and definitely establish- ed the system used by the police in the collection of bribes from boot- leggers and saloonmen.” The amount of scrap iren con- sumed in the United States ia 1927 is estimated at about 25,000, 000 tons, He Wrote in 1892 is the World’s “Safest Ride in Town” ' You Know, of Course of the relisbility of Yellow Cabs, the care our courteous drivers use, but have you realised their real economy? A full mile in & Yellow Cab costs you just forty cents. Five pas sengers or one, it’s all the same to us. ONE FARE! NO CHARGE for extra pas or Joseph T. Robinson, demo-|the unions might act at once. he, wanted to go home “and see m_w";';;;; ":Tsm:;‘ frt:"“;lcem mé;n“d_]em:; Increased wage demands varving | FE00 S 1€ T B8O o erside of- mamma.” [ Lo ing |from 10 to 15 per cent were made ficers said they were confident that “They hit me over the head in|Green, Ky, where he will pick UP | by the unions, while the roads were |5 B 00 boys made the vic- the eye when they dragged me into|hiS campaign schedule interrupted |willing to allow increases of 7 1-2| 3 Grosios | {tims of ill treatment and slaying on .* Billy said, reciting the|bY Sunday’s tropical hurricane, per cent, On the working rule, 5 their car” Billy g | Cancding his adfveas ot Miss the farm would exceed the four ils of the kidnaping September which the railroads have sought to | : 5 :_e'“.f;-m i telling me to shut |on Monday, the nomince led the climinate, the unions have re tumx",‘\.“o':“';"iab&.;s“fl;“;e:\.l'd s:.’;?'g:i“;:_' upand when I hollered anyway, fArst relief train into the stricken |to arbitrate, claiming that its elim-|Norn(OR' MePRENS WEO W they . hit ,me.” Qistrict where, after an inapection lination weuld mean a 15 per cent| 'y o ol costarany Jod afiters ¥ 2y ih, mubeniin. Farii of conditions, he issued an appeal |reduction in salaries. 555 ALbIS in Mot Cansns: Which he The hey said he was taken by his for the American Red Cross to send| J, W. Higgins, who represented satd his S rented and "which the two, abductors to & farm house. He immediate aid. |the western carriers, explained |hu‘polw believe may lead to discovery didp't know. exactly where, it was.| Storm conditions delaved train|gjjure to arbitrate as folows: lof additional evidence. The officers “The men, Who kidnaped me were Seivice and the senator was com-| “Ths public should understand | g0 o "o charred debris two s 2 e | 8e tioning by Sheriff Margraf, was that based on the finding of bones of one Most Popular Laxative — When Dr. Caldwell started tg N practice medicine, back in 1875, the neceds for a laxative were not as great as they are today. People lived normal, quiet lives, ate plain, | wholesome food, and got plenty of fresh air and sunshine. But even that early there were drastic phys- ics and purges for the “elief of con- stipation which Dr. Caldwell did not believe were good for human be-. ings to put into their system. 8o he wrote a prescription for a laxative to be used by his patients. sengers. NO CHARGE for extra sf Pay what the meter reads. | Ttaltane” he sad. “The man and | woman to whose. farm they took me: were French. I couldn’t understand | what the farm people said, but I' can understand Italian. The farm- ers treated me all right. There was a little boy there, and we d | together. Once I got away, but they caught me. pelled to cancel also his scheduled address in Atlanta and procecd directly for Bowling Green. Before leaving Florida, the nomi- nee said he would like the pub- lic to realize the true situation of the devastated area in the beliet that it would help in the relief work and rehabilitation. Property dam- age In the area, he said, was heing that the failure to settle the con- \'ro\'oruy between the western rail- {ways and their conductors and pr:nnman has been entirely due to |the rejection by the labor organiza- [tions of the two different proposals |of arbitration. “One of these proposals was made by the conference comiittce of pair of boys' shoes identified as hav- |ing belonged to boys of 9 to 11 years. Fire had left only the toes of another pair of shoes. Identify Bones The first positive evidence of the “corpus delicti” in the investigation | came in the identification of hones | | dug up on the farm as being human It The prescription for constipation that he used early in his practice, and which he put in drug stores in 1892 under the name of Dr. Cald- | well's 8yrup Pepsin, is a liquid vege- | able remedy, intended for women children and elderly people, and! |they need just such a mild, safe, |gentle bowel stimulant managers representing the railways. 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