New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-06
Baby
Safe; Troopers
Seek a w oman
Police Certain That Augusta
Pascol,. Crank Prisoner,
Is Man Who Kidnapped
Child Two Months Ago
Have Fingerprint Clew
Authorities Conceal Man
Under Arrest and Grill
Him for Information

SPECIAL DlSpdfCh 10 me IftOUhc
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. g. Blal<cly
Coughlin, fifteen months-old kidnapped
baby, is said in the most highly
authoritative source to be alive.
Auguste passed., arrested as "The
Crank who obtained $4,000 ransom
money from George II. Coughin, father
of the child, is believed to be the
actual kidnaper.
His principal accomplice is believed
to be a woman, whose arrest is ex
pected momentarily. Finger prints of
this woman, obtained from the window
stills of the Coughlin home, are in the
hands of a handwriting expert
State troopers, accompanied by postal
inspectors. are now engaged in search
ing for this woman: With her appre-
hension they hope to find the child.
These facts we're learned tonight
from the most reliable authority.
George A. leonard, chief postal in
spector, and Major Lynn G.. Adams,
head Of the Pennsylvania state con-
stabularv, are heading the forces seek
ing to capture the woman accomplish.
passed., a foreigner with long Grim
inal record, is in Pennsylvania, being
carefully guarded by five state troop
ers.
Inc CrHllh has DCcu SPIRITED TO Nu-
merous places by lis captors, for Sc
cret grilling He ms been detained in
one barrack town. but is now thought
to be concealed in a remote section
within a seventy-fve mile radius of
Philadelphia.
A trap has been prepared by the
authorities working on the case by
means of which they hope to catch all
those implicated in the abduction.
The moment the baby is returned or
the accomplices in the kidnapping ar
rested "The Crank" and his associates
will be rushed either to Norristown or
Philadelphia for preliminary hearing.
A detail of SIX troopers has been
stationed in Norristown since the be-
ginning of the week. 1t is working
secretly on separate angle of the
case Attempts are being made to con-
meet Passed. with mysterious man seen
in Norristown and the vicinity shortly
before the kidnapping on June 2.
Police records in Philadelphia and
other large cities are being scanned by
the authorities to discover whether the
woman implicated in the kidnapping
has q criminal record.
Finger prints of Passed. were com
pared yesterday with impressions
taken at the Coughln home Accord
ing to Captain of Detectives Souder
and Postal Inspector McVickar the i'm
prcssions are not the same. The au-
thorities are tracing all funds held by
Passed. in the hope of obtaining a re-
turn Of at least a portion of the $40 900
which he cxtorted from Coughln.
Passed. was released from the Phia-
delphla County prison on March 26, at
which time he had only S426. Shortly
after the middle of June, when Cough
I'm deposited the ransom money, Pas
col appeared at rooming house here
with large supply of money. Since
that time he has displayed either bills
or checks for sums running into thou
sands of dollars. He is unable to ex-
plain satisfactorily how he came into
possession Of all this money.
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 5-Atlantc
County detectives started out this
morning on a still hunt for little
Blakley Coughlin, who, "the crank is
said to have minated, was secreted
in this city. Prosecutor Edmund c..
Gaskill jr. called of the men tonight
following a conference with a govern
ment agent from Philadelphia. If any
further clcws are being run down, the
government agents are conducting the
search without assistance of either the
county or city authorities
Prosecutor Gaskill, after hearing the
reports of his men, expressed his tirb
belief that the baby was not hidden in
Atlantic City.
There is a feeling in police circles
here tonight that the child is some
where in the vicinity of EGG Harbor.