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PAGE TEN MEDPORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY IS, 1934. RICH OIL MAN AND L 10 (Continues, trom page one) 6onalre from a recreation room on Ms five-acre wooded estate at Arcadia last Wednesday midnight. Williams admitted he aided Kirk in spiriting Oettle away and Kirk confessed that be thought out tiie plot. Spreading like wildfire, the news of the Bsfe return of Oettle and the cap. til re of the kidnapers brought huge rowds to the hall of justice, where Oettle was first taken, and thence to his home. On every tongue was heard a thankful expression for the fortunate turn of the case. When rumors of the possibility of an at tempted lynching reached the district attorney, he replied sternly that "there will be no lynchlngs In Southern Cali fornia." The alleged kidnapers, even before trie crime had been perpetrated, made Hie fatal mistake which led to last night's arrests and the return of Oet tle to his family unharmed. Oronp Watched, Five weeks ago they attracted mem bers of the Los Angeles police robbery detail by their unusual activities to their rooms in an apartment house a 600 North Harvard street, Los Angeles. The officers were seeking a band of bank robbers. They placed recording devices In rooms which har bored the suspects. But results fAlled to come In. Of ficers were ready to give It up last Saturday when one of the records, re run In police quarters, scratched out . this conversation: "There'a no need to be scared any longer. Things are In pretty good etaape. The newspapers look favor able. I understand no one can tap a pay telephone line." It wasn't much, but enough. While police, sheriff's deputies and district attorney's operatives buzzed omberly over the ransom payment failure, Capt. Harry Seagar and Lieut. V- P. Oearhard blood their time at he apartment. Law Strikes.' At the proper moment, when hopes vaned at the Oettle mansion, the lsw truck. Jimmy Kirk and two women, loretta Woody and Joan Burke were arrested. Prom Klra. they obtained the address of the kidnap house where Oettle was held. Parents Of Girl gjt fj f - A six-pound, six-ounce daughter waa born to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, son and daughter-in-law of the President, In Fort Worth, Tex. The Roosevelts (above) named her Ruth Chandler Roosevelt (As sociated Press Photos) Armed forces moved in on the house, situated on the edge of one of the arroyos down which the New Year's day flood waters swept many to their deaths. Roy Williams waa taken Into cus tody. Lurry Kerrigan fled, only to be apprehended later on an underworld tip. In a darkened room, bound hand and foot, gagged and In a weakened condition, they found Oettle. The news ofOettle's return spread like fire as one member of the kidnaping group after another was brought In. Before Oettle had been taken to the sheriff's homicide bureau a large crowd had gathered. Another throng cheered, wildly when' police sirens announced his arrival at his pretentious Beverly Hills home, i Like Bad Dream. "It all seems like a bad dream," 1 the weary millionaire said as he en tered the palatial portals of his home again. "My greatest worry while X lay bound hand and foot on that bed was for the anxiety my absence would cause my wife and family." He waa aa yet unaware that the children bad not been Informed. "They fed me all right, but kept me trussed up. They blindfolded and gagged me and removed the gag only when they fed me. "I had no idea where Z was. I was surprised to find I was so elose to home. "When they kidnaped me they blindfolded me and drove for several hours, I was under the Impression Lhey had taken me out somewhere near Riverside (some sixty mues xrom Los Angeles.)" Oettle said his side was Injured when the abductors pushed him over the seven and a half foot wall at his Arcadia estate last Wednesday night and he leaned heavily on officers' arms as he walked from the car Into the house. Touching Reunion. A touching reunion followed. Mrs. Oettle, who had collapsed after her husband's abduction, had been pre pared by Sheriff Eugene Blscallun for Gettle's safe return. First he told her he understood Oettle would be brought back safely. Then, when the startling Information apparently did not wrack the already strained, frail body he added boldly: "Tour husband has been returned safe." Prayerfully she sobbed; "Thank God. Thank God." The children, who had frequently asked "When will daddy bs back?" danced around htm happily, rather PLAN YOUR HOME We Will Help You B 1" ' If 1 VUl I tloo'J; I El Oihuo La- LntfG ton LBR. Tahft.it Phone 1 """ U 'U ' surprised at all the commotion. Buron Fltts, district attorney, prom ised legal action against the five and others they are seeking, will be started todsy. " "We will seek at least life sentences for every person Involved," he an nounced. In the meantime authorities were questioning each of the prisoners, In sn effort to determine who had "put the finger" on Oettle. Whether It was some person ''close to the Oettle household" that was suspected, they were not prepared to say. SURE HE'LL WIN "Carle Abrams will win out In his candidacy for secretary of state, with a substantial majority," a&ld Major Henry Miller, who Is In the city In the Interest of Mr. Abrama. "I have been In practically every section of western Oregon during the past three weeks, from the Cascade mountains to all parts of the coast, and I have yet to find any evidence that his op ponent will carry a single county," said Major Miller. 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