GREAT MAN-HUNT IN U.S.A.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 5

GREAT MAN-HUNT IN U.S.A.

KIDNAPPERS AGAIN BOY’S BODY FOUND. Ex-Inmate Of Asylum Being Hunted By Sheriffs. Everette (Washington), Jan. 11. With the head crushed, apparently as a result o f a heavy blow, the body pf a boy found In a field near the public highway has been positively identified «s that of the kidnapped Pon pf Dr. Mattson, Tscoma. Identification, which was difficult .owing to the injuries, was established by James Gowdy, a relative, and Paul Sceva, an old frilsnd of the family. Dr. Mattson is speeding to the scene in an automobile, and the greatest manhunt since the- Weyerhauser case began immediately under the direction of the Federal Bureau cf Investigation. The body was apparently carried from an automobile and dumped in a field. Tyre tracks on the gravelled road within 150 feet of where the body was found indicate that the automobile swung off the road. Footprints in Snow. Footprints on the snow led from where the car stopped to the body. Casts have been made both of the footprints and of the tyre tracks. It is disclosed that deputy-sheriffs are hunting an ex-inmate of an asylum who lives near the spot where the body was found and was previously arrested in connection with an attempt to kidnap the child of a prominent Seattle citizen. In that; case a note specified the delivery pf ransom a few hundred feet from the same spot. Meanwhile Mr Edgar Hoover has announced at Chicago that all the resources of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be used -to capture the Mattson slayef.