Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-15
HELD FOR THE DEATH
 OF HER StX-YEAR- OLD SON

Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 14-The body of James NJ. Blake. Jr., six1year- old son of a wealthy Philadelphia in- surance broker. who was declared by his mother to have been kidnapped last Friday night. washed ashore at Ventnort today. Mrs. Blake has been placed under arrest.
 Mrs. Blake, who on Friday night crawled to the home of Benjamin Fox in Ventnor and told sensational story of being attacked by two ne- groes who after beating her, robbed l her of a handbag and then fled with i her child. is charged with the murder i of the boy She was removed from the home of Mrs. A. G. Miller, in Ventnor, l today, to the Atlantic City hospital where she is guarded by a uniformed i policeman. She is said to be suffering i from nervous collapse and probably will be taken to the county jail within i a few days.
 The boys body was found less than | five blocks from the pier in Tentnor where Mrs. Blake's handbag was re- covered yesterday and about the same [ distance from the scene of the alleged 1 k dnapping. It was seen floating on
 the water by Samuel Blair, of Margate | City, who was walking up the board
 walk. After dra gging the body to the beach Blair notified the authorities, who sent it to an undertaking estab-
 lishment and then appeared before Recorder Allen Endicott, at Ventnor. and swore out a warrant charging
 Mrs. Bake with the ehiid's murder. T County Physician l.. F. Souder per-
 formed an autopsy and pronounced death due to drowning. He said it had
 not yet been decided whether to hold an inquest. There were no marks on the body to indicate that the boy had been killed before he was thrown into
 the water" said Dr. Souder. Tt looks
 to me as though he was thrown from
 the end of the pier into the ocean.
 T understand that Mrs. Blake fre- quently made statements to her fam fly that something terrible was going
 to happen. 1 have talked with her husbacd, from whom she is separated and he stated that his wife long has ; shown evidence that her mind was un.
 balanced. She has been under the
 care of nerve specialists for some time , and was in fact a nervous invalid I MT. Blake. when seen at his home 7 later, said he did not care further tt
 discuss the case. You can readil!
 understand that under the circum
 stances I would not care to make z statement at this time. I have nt E idea what would prompt my wife t
 commit such an act" he said.
 Chief of Police Sprague said ther l were several marks on the boys body e but that they probably were cause, 0 by contact with the ietty and piling f along the beach. There was one cut,
 he said, lon top of the head, one unde
 the nose and one eye was black M e opinion is that the boys mother thre1 : him from the end of the pier. She ha q told me the child stood between he e and her husband and that at the tim
 the boy was born she wanted to d
 away with him. She has made mum Il Der of other discriminating state !. ments.''
 s Mrs Blake is said to have been sui if fering from a nervous ailment for
 number of years. The authorities sai
 tonight she has told many confictin n stories both before and since her ar n rest, probably due, it was said. to he Is nervous condition.
 n MT. and Mrs. Blake have been es
 tranged for some time. The boy an
 ten-year- old daughter had been in u " custody of their father and had bee to permitted to go out with their mothe