Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-06
BELIEVE PASCOL
is K|DNAPER OF
COUGHL|N CHILD
Police Declare Finger
prints Agree With Those
of Abductor.
IDENTIFY MAN AS ONE WITH
RECORD IN SEVERAL CITIES
Number of Persons, Including
Woman, May Be Involved
in Case.

PHILADELPHIA. August 5.-PostaI
inspectors and local police tonight
expressed themselves thoroughly con-
WINGED that ''thc crank" identified as
Augusta Pascol, and known to the
authorities as Pasqualc, Is not only
the man who obtained the $4,000
from George II. Coughlin. father of
the kidnapped Norristown boy. but is
the actual abductor of the thirteen
months old child.
Pascol who was arrested last Mon
day at Egg Harbor, y. j.. after he had
been trapped into picking up n box
supposed to contain $4,000 as further
ransom money for the return of the
missing boy. is still hidden by the
authorities. In no circumstances,
they declare. will his whereabouts be
revealed until they havet completed
their investigation of the story he
tells.
His Long Police Record.
An Important development in the
case today was the Identification of
Pascol as Augusta Pasquale. with n
police record in this and other cities.
rms also led to an examination of
the fngcrprints OF Pasqualc, on file
at police headquarters here. with the
Eidnapers fingcrprints found in the
Ioushiin home. and il is asserted by
the police that they agree sufficiently
TO convince them that they were
made by the same man.
! Pasquale was released from prison
here last March after serving nine
months on charges of breaking and
entering. larceny and carrying con-
cealed deadly weapons. He had no
money when he left prison, but when
Pascoi applied for a room in n lodg-
ing house here In June he appeared
10 lie pientifully supplied with funds.
! This was after Juno III. when
Coughiin deposited $4,000 under n
deserted trolley station Mt Swcdeland.
near Norristown. as instructed by the
letter signed The Crank" demand
ing the money forI.-s return OF the
child The money disappeared and
no trace OF the child was found.
tascol deposited about $4,000 in n To-
cal trust company and later bought
chicken farm at New Grctna. y. J..
near EgS Harbor. and also an auto
mobile.
served Term Mt EImtra
l'rior 10 serving nine months In rho
county prison here, Pasquale served
term in The Elmira. y. V. Reform
atory beginning in April, 1910. Thr,.
years later he was arrested in New
ark y, j., for carrying concealed
weapons, and after that in FaIrmoun,
Park here as a suspicious character.
From the time he was released in
March unii! June. when he appeared
AT the lodging house. his movements
are not known. The Coughlin baby
! was stolen June ..
According to George 4. Leonard.
chief postal inspector, Pascol said he
did not know anything about the
kidnapping. but that he was hired
| by man TO hang the white sheet
along the railroad as n signal for
Coushlin to throw box containing
10000 out OF railroad train window
between Camden, n. j., and Atlantic
City
Leonard said Pascol will not reveal
the identity of this man. Postal In
spectors and the local police tonight
expressed the opinion that a number
of>persons might have been involved
in the abduction. and are also OF
the opinion that woman figured in
the case, and is now caring for the
child.
Penalty tx Life Imprixonment.
The authorities expressed the belief
That the prisoner refuses to admit
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