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ADAMS BELIEVES
CHILD is ALIVE
State Police Head Looks For
Results in COughIin Case.
NOW SEEK PRISONERS WIFE
His Attorney Says He Located House
Where Joe" Lived Until a Short
Time Ago.

His Attorney Says He Located House
Where "Joe" Lived Until a Short
Time Ago.
Philadelphia, Aug. 1O-"T believe
III" Cou@hlin baby is alive, and expect
results within a week." said Major
Lynn G. Adams, head of the state pol
lice, in spite of the absolute failure
Of state police detectives and feder-
III agents to locate the missing baby
up to date.
Major Adams retained his optimis-
tic attitude in spite of threats to kill
Blakely COughlin made in the letters
written to George II. Coughlin, the
father, by Augusta PaSquale, the self
confessed Crank
In one of "The Cranks" letters this
sentence occurs: Il kidnapped another
baby two years ago and put him in
hole in the ground. because his par
ents wouldn't coma through, and
that's what will happen to your baby
if YOU don't pay the money"
All letters contained threats of
much the same sort, Major Adams adj
mits, but he still holds to the belief
that the baby is alive.
Major Adams, however, made no
attempt to be evaSive. He admitted
that up to date results from the in
VeStigatiOn have not been of the
brightest. He said every effort is
being made to locate Pasquale'S wife
and daughter, who are believed to be
able to throw considerable light on
the prisoners movements between the
time he got out of Holmesburg pris-
on, March &c last. and his capture at
Egg Harbor, n. J., a week ago.
The State police head declared that
his men have been looking up the rec
ords to see if they can connect Pas
quale with any previous kidnapping in
which the baby was never returned
to its parents, but does not place too
much credence in the mans statement
that he kidnapped another two years
ago and buried it because its parents
wouldn't pay ransom. PasQuale de-
MES it and says that he wrote the
threat merely to scare the Cough
Inns.
Major Adams said that he has over
100 men on the case. They are work
ing everywhere throughout Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey, running down
even the slightest of clews. Nothing
is overlooked that might tend to show
the Whereabouts of the baby or cap
ture the person who has him in Gus
tody
Especial attention is being paid to
abandoned babies. One theory of the
police has been that the woman who
took Blakely away after the kidnap-
ing became frightened after Pas
quale's capture and has abandoned
the child. 1t is pointed out that
there are many places in Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey where a baby
might be abandoned, and the outsi
world rot learn of it for weeks.
Isolated hamlets or farmhouSeS
list in both states where a city NJ
paper is rarity" said Major Ada
persons living in such places are
Of touch with the world and mig
know nothing of the Coughlin kidnakS
ing They might find a baby on their
doorstep and take the child in with
out realizing who he is 1t is this
theory that has caused orders that all
cases of abandoned babies which
come to light are to be investigated
at once"
While wild tips and wilder letters
have been pouring into police head
quarters and the Coughlin mansion,
Benjamin F. Goodman, counsel for
Pasquale, has been doing a little de-
tective work on his own hook. He
said he believes that the real kidnap-
ing was done by a man named "Joe'
and his wife, and that Pasquale mere
" wrote the ransom letters Good
man says if Pasquale is telling the
truth he will be successful in locat-
ing them.
"Joe" is supposed to have been a
former client of GoOdman's and the
latter says he found the house where
"JOe" lived n week ago, but hasn't yet
been able to find Joe" or the wo--
man.
Two Killed in r. r. Wreck.
Huntington. w. Va, Aug. 10.-Two
persons We're killed and several re-
ported injured in railroad wreck on
the Lexington division of the Chesa-
- axe and Ohio, near Ashland, XIV.
t'hn ira Il MS carrying carnival