U.S.A. KIDNAPPING.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 336, 18 January 1937, Page 5

U.S.A. KIDNAPPING.

Negro Now Repudiated His

Confession.

Press Association—Copyright. Tacoma, January 16." Dr. Mattson, father of the kidnap- j ped boy whose body has been found, ■ in an interview ascribed the kidnap- fl ping and murder to a bungling fiend ■ and an accomplice. He expressed fl confidence in their apprehension and ’ said he was sure that the kidnappers when they reached the stags where they were ready to receive the ransom found that the boy knew too much and they dared not release him. They therefore destroyed him. It has been divulged that the parents received three letters from the

boy dictated by the kidnapper. Numerous telephone calls for. a rendezvous with the kidnapper were also received, but every time that Dr. Mottson attempted to meet him nobody appeared. Dr. Mattson will give a Press conference to-morrow to set at rest criticisms of mismanagement in the attemut to redeem the boy and of the efforts by the authorities to secure the identiflfication of the kidnapper.