The Daily Alaska Empire

Prosecution Of Kidnaper Is Speeded

Accomplice Is Now Sought in California Child Snatch Case

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 24. —While the FBI sought to link Wilhelm Muhlenbroich with the four year old kidnap and murder of Charles Mattson of Tacoma, Wash.

San Mateo authorities prepared speedy prosecution of him as the kidnaper of little Marc de Tristan.

Muhlenbroich is held in seclusion by the FBI who confronted him last night with William Mattson, brother of the abducted and slain Tacoma boy.

Meanwhile Sheriff James McGrath checked the possibility that Muhlenbroich had an accomplice.

Muhlenbroich admitted stealing Marc Friday. The license plates were removed from the kidnap car which is the same one delivered last January to a blond young foreigner who rented a post office box at Halfmoon Bay, apparently only to get the license plate, the authorities assert.

Son of Count and Countess de Tristan, baby Marc was kidnapped Friday afternoon while with his nurse near his home in fashionable Hillsborough near San Francisco.

The abductor was captured and the child returned to his home Sunday afternoon.

PICTURES

tele mats, latest news pictures, wirephotos. Here they are, reaching The Empire less than 24 hours after actual occurrence, direct from the Associated Press office in San Francisco. The pictures left San Francisco by airmail at midnight Sunday and reached The Empire via Alaska Clipper at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, but too late for yesterday's Empire. Here they are today, a pictorial story of the capture of the kidnaper, and his 3-year-old victim. All Associated Press pictures in The Empire.

HIS KIDNAP PLOT FAILED

Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich (right), alien German who entered the United States in 1935, and whom Federal agents said admitted being the abductor of 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr., son of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hillsborough, Cal., is shown shortly after he had been captured with the boy in his possession near River Pine, Cal. The boy was found 48 hours after he was abducted near his home by the kidnaper who demanded $100,000 ransom for his safe return but which he was unable to collect although the parents of the boy were ready to pay.

BEFRIEND KIDNAPED BOY

After 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr., son of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hillsborough, Cal., had been freed and his abductor captured near River Pine, Cal., 48 hours after the boy had been snatched from the hands of his nurse near the family home, he was befriended by Mrs. Ann Breidenbach (holding Marc) and Mrs. J. E. South until Federal agents arrived.

BOY SAFE, UNHARMED

Curly-haired, 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, son of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hillsborough, Cal., who was kidnaped near his home and was rescued by two lumberjacks and his abductor captured near River Pine, Cal., 48 hours later, doesn't seem the least bit perturbed by his experience. This picture was taken shortly after his rescue.

SAFE IN FRIENDLY ARMS

Frank Breidenbach, general storekeeper of the tiny El Dorado County village of River Pine is shown holding 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr., son of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hillsborough, Cal., who was kidnaped near his home and who was rescued and his abductor captured by two lumberjacks near Pine River 48 hours later.