The Washington times., 1920-10-13
CRANK CONFESSES
TO THIRD -SLAy|NG
Shot Edward Ryan Dead IN
Philadelphia Saloon, Pas
quaIe Tells Authorities.

ust Pssqusle. confessed kidnaper aud
murderer OF la' months old Blakeiy
CouEbliu. Of Norristown. Pa. ana 10
year old Mrs Rose Ashermsn. OF
PhlladeIphis. has also confessed 10
the murder OF Edward Ryan, OF
Philadelphia. IL developed today.
When Pasquale told Major Lynn O..
Adams. superintendent Of the State
police. that he smothered the Cough
lin baby and had killed an aged
W oman In a rooming house in Phila-
delphia he did not tell OF the killing
OF Ryan.
since sunday he has admitted
shooting and killing man In a sa-
loon al Eighth and Green streets In
Philadelphia, which police records
show was Ryan.
THINK HE KILLED OTHERS.
with these 1hree murders already
admitted. there ~ strong suspicion
that Pasquale Was the murderer OF
Paymasters Zehner and Watkins, OF
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany. on a lonely mountain road In
the coal regins OF Carbon county.
The two men were killed while on
their way TO . coal coliiery 10 pay
off their men. Pasquaale Is known TO
have lived and worked In the vicinity
OF the mining camps at the time. He
disappeared Immediately after the
hold-up and murder.
Records OF several other murders
in eastern Pennsylvania which have
never been solved, are now being gone
over go ascertain IL Pasduale could
have bad some connection with them.
. HUNT ron BABY's BODY ENDS.
George n. CoughIin, father Of muir
dered Blakeley Coughlin, late last
night announced that the search for
his baby sons body probably would
be abandoned, as the family and po-
lice are satisfied that the little corpse
thrown into tha scnuyikill river by
Augusta Pasauale, "the Crank had
decomposed and washed away for
ever.
Through his attorney, c. T.LaTze-
lere, Mr.. coughlin said that physi-
clans at the University OF Penpsyl-
yania had agreed that body which
had been in the water for more than
four months could not be found. be-
cause of the quick decomposition due
to action of acids coming from the
mills in the vicinity OF the spot where
little Blakeley was thrown into the
stream.
MI OF war spent III
searching the river bottom at Earn
est station, more than a mile from
the Curren Terrace home of, the
Coughlins. 4 diver crawled on his
hand and knees over the bottom OF
the stream and found only a section
OF the iron rail and string. which
Pasauslc. sitting calmly on the bank
of tho river. Identified as the weight
used to hold the child's body under
the water.
CRANK ADMITS MANY CRIMES.
pssausie's confession 10 the state
police bnfoIded long string OF
crimes. He told how nc had arrived
In Norristown n week before the kid
naping for tho purpose of robbing
telephone pay stations. On his way
back to PhiladeIphis he pass I'd the
Coughlin summer home just as the
family was returning from NorrIs-
town. He saw the baby being tuck
ed into bed by Mrs CoughIin. and he
carefully surveyed tho surroundings
with view to kidnapping at = later
date.
PasqusIe insists that the rcsIiza-
ton OF the child's death was a shock
to him. lie told the police that he
sat for hours on the bank of the
Schuylkill with the dead child in his
arms, trying to decide the safest
means to dispose of the body. Shortly
before daylight, on June 2, he reach
cd the stone qusrries at Earnest and
found the iron rail. to whic1, he tied
tho little corpse Then he tossed II
with all his strength into the deep
est part of the river
WILL ESCAPE MURDER CHARGE.
The Crsnk's imperturbablc nerve
was displayed by the fact that he
then came back to Norristown and,
spent the entire day in the town that
was seething with excitment over
Lhe KIDNAPPING. He wrote tho first
blackmail letter at II n. m. and as
he ate his meals read the Norristown
papers. which told of the crime Mt
Curren Terrace. .e.
Pasausle viii se placed on striat
for kidnapping at the Novembaf ses-
sion OF court. According to- lawyers
here, he cannot be tried for murder
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