Asheville, Feb. 26—Detectives are scouring the country for William H. Barrett, 11-year-old son of Dr. Frederick J. Barrett, former head of the Internal Medical Department of the United States army, who is believed to have been kidnapped here about 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. Police are attempting to locate a woman believed to be Marian R. Barrett, from whom Dr. Barrett has been separated and who is said to have kidnapped the child previously, leading to a sensational pursuit through Canada and across to California. A woman and child, answering their description, entrained here this afternoon for Philadelphia.
Dr. Barrett has been a patient in a local hospital for several months. Soon after the child failed to return home, an investigation was ordered and his bicycle was found on the roadside, not far from the hospital along with other indications that he had been carried away.
Wires have been sent to various points between Asheville and Philadelphia in an attempt to locate the woman answering the description of Mrs. Barrett and her child.
From the front page of The Charlotte News and Evening Chronicle, Sunday morning, Feb. 27, 1921
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