South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-28
F0LDASI CASE IDENTICAL
WITH MACkLIN, OFFERS
NEW CLEW TO MURDERER

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Wednesday morning by Detective
| Diver.
SeizeS Bare Arm
A home on Riverside drive in which
one of the city's prominent families
live, was entered some time ago and
the cries of a small baby led to dis
| coVery of the entrance. The mother
rushed into the nursery where the
child was asleep-accor6ing to the de-
tective's report it was nearly midnight
and without waiting TO snap on the
electric lights, stopped over the baby's
crib.
AS she reached down to soothe the
child her hand came in contact with
human arm, bare to the shoulder.
The mother was stricken with terror
and stated to the detective that for a
moment she was unable to move,
paralyzed by fright.
She caught hold of the arm and
felt that it was bare from the shout
der T. the hand. 1t had been lying
across the body of the child. What the
intentions of the intruder were, were
never discovered, although detectives
have been working on the case from
the time it was reported.
Intruder Escapes.
The mother screamed and Selling
child's nurse. There the two women.
terror-stricken, locked themselves in
and did not summon the police until
the intruder had made his escape.
The mother stated to detectives,
however, that while they were in the
room they heard footballs through
the hall The whole affair transpired
in the upstairs rooms OF the house.
Police authorities were Immediately
struck by the similarity of the case of
Mary FoldaSi, who narrowly escaped a
fate identical with that of the Mack
lin girl. when the case was called to
their attention Wednesday. Patrolman
Wesolek, acting as an Hungarian in
terpreter, was dispatched to the home
of Mrs. Rosa Nemeth, SOC Napier St,
aunt of the Foldasi girl. at whose
home the child was staying at the
time of her experience with the man
who is now being sought.
Mrs. Nemeth declared she had seen
the man who offered Mary the position
and that she could easily identify him
in case Of his arrest.
Here is the story told by Mary re-
garding her experience:
Here's Girls Story.
In broken English the girl told her
story:
when he came to my house he told
my papa he had a good job for me"
the child related. my father did not
want to let me go but the man said
he was rich and would give me a good
education would teach me English;
then papa said yes.
81 put on my best dress and went
out with the man. We got into an
automobile The man drove and
went far out into the woods near
Prairie av.
Then he stopped the automobile.
4 a
there was something wrong with it.
He told me to get off. / did.
"Then he tried to kiss me. L
screamed and fought him. 1t was
still daylight and he placed his hands
over my mouth.
you little fool" he said to me. 'I'n
cut your throat if you don't keep
STILL"
Frightened, He DeSists.
"He saw some one coming up the
road and he pushed me back into the
automobile. He took me back TO the
city and left me far from my home.
I have not seen him since"
Records of the police department
showed that the child was found wan
dering about the streets on the day
mentioned by her. She appeared to
be dazed and could not tell the police
where she lived. Her father came
for her a few hours later. Foldasi
added TO his child's story.
1.-THE man called at my home TO
81 had refused each time as l did not
like the mans looks. l finally yielded
to his persuasions when he said he
was going to give her a good educa-
ton"
The description given OF the man by
Foldasi TALES with that which was
given by Clayton McCloud who be-
lieves he witnessed the meeting be-
tween the Macklin child and her
SLAYER near Springbrook park.
Mary Foldasi is an unusually at
tractive Polish girl.
City police and sheriffs In every
state in the middle west have been
furnished with accurate descriptions
of the supposed slayer and have been