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TWO HELD FOR
BABY STEALING
Cook and Soldier Being Held
at NOrriStOWn.
TAKE WOMAN TO SCENE
Police Compare Finger Prints OF
Catherine Dundon to Those IN the
Coughlin Home.

Norrfstown. Pa, June "a former
cook of the Coughlins and a veteran
of the world war have been arrested
in connection with the kidnapping OF
Blakeley Coughlin.
The baby was taken Wednesday
morning from his parents hcme, Cur
rem Terrace, on the outskirts of Nor
ristown.
The arrests followed an investga-
ton by detectives from a private
agency. Those held are:
Mrs Catherine DundOn, thirty-ei@ht
of ConshohOcken, former cook of the
Coughlins.
James Malone, twenty-siven. OF
Philadelphia, who served in the
army one year and nine months.
They are held in the city hall
Jail.
For one hour Mrs. Dundon, in Gus
tody of two detectives, visited her sis
ter's home at COnshOhOcken and then
the grounds surrounding the COughlin
estate.
The visit 20 the latter place was for
the purpose of comparing the 20
mans footprints with those left in
freshly ploughed field near the house
The trip to ConShohOcken was TO
permit the prisoner to verify certain
statements she had made in her ear
lier testimony.
While she was on this trip, George
Gibson, a detective of Philadelphia,
supervised the copying of finger print
which one of the kidnapers left on the
window sill and screen of the baby's
nursery. The imprints of fingers on
the screen are fairly clear.
These will be compared with the
finger prints of Mrs. Dundon, which
were taken earlier in the day.
District Attorney Frank X. Rennin'
ger said all evidence which has been
gathered thus far will be prepared for
use in a third degree" inquisition OF
the prisoners.
Malone was not taken from his cell
during the day. Police said they are
satisfied he played no active part in
the abduction of the child.
A. present the only charge against
them is that of being suspicious char
acters" Both say they were together
in Philadelphia at the time little
Blakeley Coughlin was stolen.
Mrs. George H. Coughlin, mother of
the Kidnapped baby, is on the verge
of a collapse, say her friends.
The baby had been suffering from
a heavy cold, and doctors had detected
Of Inn foyu 6aVl
before the kidnapping. But for the
kidnapping the child would have been
taken Wednesday to Buck Hill Falls,
Pa, it being thought the change Of air
would prove beneficial
Mrs. Coughlin- fears her child
may not be receiving the needed medi-
cal attention and that he may become
seriously ILL., Through the family at
torney she appealed to any physician
called to attend a baby, to give the
child especial care and examine the
patient closely in the chance that 1t
might be her missing infant.
The fact the child was stolen the
morning of the. day it was to have
been taken to Buck Hill Falls, leads
Iu0 1dIuIly u DelleNS TIC
were we'll acquainted with the plans
of the Coughlins.
The Coughlins received no responses
in the mail 70 the advertisement Of
a reward for the baby's return.
From the Coughlin home can be seen
the Schuylkill river The river is be-
ing closely watched by the Norristown
police on the chance that if the kid
naping was prompted by revenge, The
baby may have been thrown into the
water.
Mrs. Dundon does not fit the descrip-
ton previously furnished police of the
mysterious woman seen in the vicin-
ity Of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cough
lin before the kidnapping. She is bare
~ five feet tall and weighs ninety
pounds. She is separated from her
husband, and has been living at the
home Of her sister, Mrs Mary Hamil-
ton, Harold street, Conshohocken.
The Coughlins said hat Mrs. Dun
don was employed by them as cook
in April Her services were unsatis-
factory, they said, and she was dis
missed after she had worked there
three days