New York, Dec. 13.
The machinations of a monster in human "form were uncovered here ito-day when Albert Fish, confessed to kidnapping and murdering. little Grace Budd, a ten-year-old child, in 1828.
"It was my lust for blood,"
Fish, aged 65, and a house. painter lby trade, as he explained details of jone of the most revolting crimes of the, past ten years.
Completely overcome by sadistic tendencies which transformed him from a quiet self-effacing individual {into a fend incarnate, Fish enticed the litre girt away from her home land her friends and took her out ito the Westchester countryside.
'On "getting her alone, [throttled' the child and, was dying trisected her body with a butcher's cleaver, and, after revelling done, he buried "her body ino The, Duke afterwards attended New York detectives, checking back [special race meeting at Peton, when upon Fish's ghoulish confession, dis. the Bil was to remove disabilities his presence roused great enthusiasm. covered the youngster's skull—United attending the Wireless Through Reuter. an
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