The Washington times., 1919-12-16
KIDNAPPING ALE,
MRS. BLAKE ADMITS
Mother Of "Buddie" Says Son
Must Have Fallen Into
Ocean From Pier.
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true" he said. ''She began crying and
said: No. 1t isn't / can't remember
Just what happened "Buddie" and I
went down on the pier. He was run
ming ahead OF me, carrying my purse.
I guess he must have fallen into the
water"
Solder expressed tho hope Of Job.
tanning . complete confession" from
Mrs. Blake before night
.AeQuiring New EviAeaee.
The police and county officials de-
clare they are constantly acquiring
new evidence to support their theory
that Mrs. Blake threw her son into
the ocean, believing his death would
lead to . reconciliation with her hus-
band, I wealthy Philadelphia insur-
ance broker, FROM whom she had been
estranged four years. The woman,
according to various witnesses, be-
lieved Blake blamed her for the boy's .
sub-n6rmal condition.
'~Our case IL complete" BENJAMIN
Nusbaum, county detective. said to-
day. I'VE have traced Mrs. Blake's
movements up to the time she went
on the pier with the boy. He could
not have been thrown into the water
by any one but his mother"
The coroner's jury today Is to view
the body, which was washed ashore
Sunday Immediately afterward the
body will be prepared for burial.
That Mrs. James NJ. Blake tried to
rent q rowboat an hour before she
reported the alleged kidnapping Of
her son was told to Chief Sprague and
DAHa Nm a
william Pepper, conductor on . troll
Icy ear which runs to Longport
Lest Her Nerve, L. TAesry.
The supposition gathered by the
police and Prosecutor Gasxill Is that
Mrs. Blake wished to row out in the
surf and drown both herself and the
boy, but that failing to find boat
she went to the pier. where her nerve
failed her before she had completed
her design at double destruction.
The story Of Conductor Pepper to
the police Is that Mrs. Blake hailed
his car at the Portland avenue loop
station. She was accompanied by her
boy The car was bound to Long
port Mrs Blake took = seat near the
box, and as they neared
LonEport, four miles below Portland
avenue, asked him II she could get
to eat there. He informed
her that the only restaurant In the
borough was closed for the winter.
Asked to Hlre Rswboat.
Then Mrs. Blake asked II she could
hire Q row6oat When Pepper told
her they were put away for the cold
months she started to get of As the
car came to a stop. 1t was raining,
the conductor says, and. as she had
no umbrella, he coaxed her to remain
on the car.
Pepper says she appeared to be
"fdgety." and he thought she had
been drinking. from her rambling
The same conclusion
was given by Mrs. William F. Gill
more, Of Fifteenth avenue, Longport.
wife of Borough Clerk Gilmore, and
by Somers Endicott, of Seventeenth
avenue, inspector Of a seawall being
constructed there, the only other pas
sengers on the car.
Started To Go To Steel Pier.
The trolley car was late In reach
ing Longport and started back to thi,
city at 5:19 o'clock after Mrs. GIL
more and Endicott had alighted On
the way back Mrs. Blake again en-
tered into a conversation with Pep
per. She asked him on what street
the Steel Pier was located. When he
told her she requested to be put OF
there.
Pepper says that she told him
Buddy makes me nervous when she
noticed he had observed her condi-
ton. This was while the car was
passing through Margate City. be-
tween ventnor City and Longport.
A little later, according to Pepper,
when he collected the zone fare, she
gave him IS cents out of the change
from . dollar bill AS . little Christ
mas tip because you have been 30
kind
When the car neared Portland ave-
nue. Mrs Blake got up, took the boys
hand and signaled for the car to stop.
Pepper told her she was not at the
Steel Pier street. She said she had
changed her mind
About Ten Minutes Walk.
There Is no approach TO the board
walk at Portland avenue, and the
police believe she turned about and
came back to Atlantic avenue as soon
as the car had passed up the street.
1t was three squares from there TO
Cambridge avenue. IT would have re-
quired but ten minutes to 60 from
Portland avenue to the end Of the
fishing pier.
1t was s:Se o'clock when Ma