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KIDNAPED CHILD
FOUND MURDERED
Battered Body of 10-Year-OId
Boy Is Found by Deputy
Sheriffs
By Associated Press
Washington, Jan. 18. — President
Roosevelt said that Mattson kid
naping and murder "shocked the
nation.'' He said that every means
in the governments command will
be enlisted to capture the perpetra
tor of "the ghastly crime."
Attorney General Homer S. Cum-
mings offered $10,000 award for
the arrest of the criminal.
By Associated Praia
Everett, Washington, Jan. 11: —
Another child kidnap-murder was
added today to the crime records
of America.
The battered body of ten-year-old
Charles Mattson, who was kidnap
ped at Tacoma a fortnight ago,
was found near here today by de
puty sheriffs.
Positive identification of the
bod j' was made by James Gowdy,
a relative of the Mattson family
and Paul Sceve, an old friend of
the family.
The child apparently was slain
by his abductor or abductors. The
nude body lay in the snow a half
mile from the highway in the vici-
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FOUND MURDERED

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nity of Norma Beach on Pugetv
Sound. The face was smeared
with blood and the body was
bruised, showing that the victim
had been subjected to a terrible
beating.
Dr. W. W. Matt son, of Tacoma,
father of the lad, and Federal
agents who have been working on
the case, were summoned to Ever
ett to launch a man hunt.
Charles Morrow, father of Gor
don Morrow, who found the body,
expressed the opinion that the
corpse was brought to ths vicinity
of his home about 9.30 P.M. He
said that his dogs barked at that
hour a j if an intruder were near
by. Examination indicated that
the automobile carrying the body
stopped along side a road and that
the body was carried 150 feet and
then dropped in the snow. The
snow showed the foot prints of
one person, leading from the au
tomobile to the spot where the
body was found and thence back
to the car.
The Mattson lad was snatched
from his home Sunday night-, De
cember 27. Federal agents were
called in on the case. Some au
thorities advanced the opinion that
the kidnaper was a man who had
twice been thwarted in recent ap
parent efforts to abduct a six year
old boy, a neighbor of the Matt-
sons. This theory was disclosed
when police renewed their exami
nation of the ladder used by the
kidnaper.

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