Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — BEALS’ BABY BOY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BEALS’ BABY BOY.

An Air of Mystery Surrounds Kansas City’s Kidnaping: Case. The abduction and subsequent recovery of Banker Beals’ baby boy-at Kansas City, Mo., was as much of a mystery as-a sensation. People are now asking about the man who brought the child to the banker’s home and received the ransom of $5,000. Albert King, the suspect, and Lizzie Smith, the servant, are under

arrest. King says nothing, and the woman claims to have been stolen with the child, jjand driven away “in a carriage. It Miias been learned, "however, that the 'pair are man and wife, and together

served five years in the Colorado Penitentiary at Canyon City for horse stealing. The man says his name is Joseph Dennis, and tho woman denies the relationship. The mysterious part of the story is that the Beals family will say absolutely nothing about the case, and will refuse to prosecute a search for the man who got away with the money. The woman has an autograph album In which the names of Laura M. Dennis and Sarah E. Dennis, of Mount Carroll, 111., appear. The cottage w here tho baby was concealed, and where the woman was arrested, had the appearance of a

house that was rented for temporary purposes. Leading oil from the room adjoining the front room was a closet, and here it is probable thai. the child was kept, as there was in it a feather ta d and some clothes that would

answer for bedding*. In the adjoining room was a bottle of chloroform. It is supposed that the anaesthetic was there for the purpose of keeping the child quiet should persons corno into the house. The bottle was a small one, holding about an once. George D. Ford, who was present when Mr. Beals paid the $5,000 ransom to the unknown man for the return of the boy, called at the jail to ascertain if Albert King, the alleged confederate of Lizzie “Smith,” was the man who brought back the boy. He took a long look at him and was possitive beyond all doubt that King was not the man to whom the $5,000 was paid. Mr. Lord and Mr. Beals, who were the only persons who saw tho mysterl-

ous man who got the money, refused, by reason of the terms of the agreement in the offer to puy the ransom, to give any description of him or to give out any information that might lead to his capture. Several other arrests were made, but no one was held, each being able to prove his timoceuce.

THE STOLEN CAILD.

DAVID T. BEALS.

BEADS’ RESIDENCE.