"Skeegie" Cash; Killing Accidental Two Handkerchiefs Tied Round Face of Boy Who Suffocates; Body Flung Into Thicket Miami, June 10.
Mr. Hoover said McCall told him A suicide watch was posted at the that the reason he carried out the skyscraper jail cell of Franklin kidnapping was that he had "been Pierce MeCall today after he had wanting the things of life for his confessed to the kidnapping of five-wife and himself and had been un-year-old Jimmy ("Skeegie" Cash able to have steady employment." whose dead body was found yester-The Princeton youth, Mr. Hooven day. McCall told the sheriff, Mr. D. said, confessed that he had tied two C. Coleman, that he was going to handkerchiefs around Jimmy Cash's plead guilty. face and then discovered that the The kidnapping statute known as little boy was dead shortly after the the "Lindbergh BW" would not be abduction.—United Press. operative in the case of Jimmy Cash Mr. Hoover, reports Reuter, said because he was not taken across the that McCall confessed to having state border. Thus the case will rest acted alone in stealing young in the hands of the Florida authorities "Skeegie" from his bedroom in the and not in the United States courts Cash home, placed a handkerchief where a maximum penalty of death over the eyes and mouth of the child for kidnappers can be enforced. and taken him to his own flat. There, McCall made a full. confession McCall asserted, he found that the of, the kidnapping but denied boy was already dead, he) had purposely murdered the boy, Continuing his confession, MeCall MA J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G-declared that he then took the baby Men, said today.) and flung it into a dense thicket, "We have a full confession from afterwards returning home to send McCall, Mr. Hoover said, "admitting out the ransom notes which had been. the kidnapping of the child, the death written in advance.—Reuter. of the child and the placement of the Paying of Ransom as Crime? body."
Mr. Hoover added, however, that Mr. Hamilton Fish, Republican Re-Washington, J 3 McCall. claimed the child had died accidentally and that he never had presentative from · New—Yi intended to murder the hoy. has asked Congress to make The son o! Mr. James Cash, wealthy ment of ransom in the case of Miami of dealer, was Kidnapped BY Dping a crime punish ab the Princeton youth on May 29. He demanded and received a' ransom of ment, except where the money coo si aria oni of imprisón-U.S$10,000 which has been recover-paid upon the advice of the ed and returned to Mr. Cash.
Bureau of Investigatign—Reuter,
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