Word: mattsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deputies came, examined the body lying 200 feet from a highway, studied fresh tire tracks and footprints, decided the child had been murdered elsewhere and been dumped there the night before. In a few hours Federal Agents arrived and the body was definitely identified as that of Charles Mattson, the 10-year-old whom a bearded, gun-waving kidnapper seized in the living room of the Mattson home in Tacoma two days after Christmas (TIME...
Said the boy's father, Dr. William W. Mattson, when the news was brought to him: "I feared it. I feared when they pulled that boy out into the night that something like this would happen...
...Mattson, a surgeon and onetime footballer at the University of Washington, said to be comfortably off but not wealthy, was unable to explain what the kidnapper meant when he declared he had "put a lot of money into" the $50,000 Mattson home...
Recalling that three times during previous weeks medical kits belonging to Dr. Mattson had been stolen, police ventured the theory that these minor crimes were somehow connected with the kidnapping and perpetrated by someone, perhaps a former patient, bearing a grudge. Dr. Mattson was unable to think of anyone whom he had offended. With no clues at hand as to whether the kidnapper escaped by automobile or by boat across Commencement Bay, police and G-Men backed off the case for several days to allow Dr. Mattson to carry out Tim's instructions...
...since nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser of the rich lumber family was snatched at Tacoma in May 1935 (TIME, June 3, 1935 et seq.). George Weyerhaeuser, whose captors were caught and given stiff sentences after obtaining $200,000 for his release, used to play with Charles Mattson when he went to Haddaway Hall, the former home of his grandfather, two blocks away from the Mattson home...