Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — Youthful Copy of Fat Crowe. [ARTICLE]

Youthful Copy of Fat Crowe.

A 12-year-old boy named Soui.hwick kidnaped the 6-year-old son of G. W. Ryan, a prominent grocer of Great Falls, Mont., and sent a note to the father demanding 81,500 ransom, threatening to ram fine pieces of glass into the child’s eyes and cut off his hands unless the demand was complied with. Mr. ~Ryan notified the police, who arrested young Southwlck shortly after the Ryan boy had arrived at his father’s store unharmed, having been released by Southwlck. Southwlck confessed that he did the deed ot his own volition, and that he had no accomplices. He expressed no- repentance, and said: “I would have hit the old man for SB,OOO if I thought be would have stood for it.”