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BABY STEALING
STILL MYSTERY
Every C.eV in CCughlln Case
is Run to Earth.
"CRAEWKS" STORY A LIE
Not a Trace Has Been Found of the
Two Alleged Corfederates or the
Baby.

Two Alleged corfederates or the
Baby.
Philadelphia, Aug. 9-While Angus
! to Pasquale, The Crank" brooded
in his cell in city hall, detectives
fe,.eral agents and state police comb
ed the city and countryside for traces
Of the kidnapped Coughlin baby.
E|ery clew that turned up was
| promptly run to earth by eager
81, .,;us, whose aim was to place little
y kelly Coughlin back in his mothers
arms.
=, alr-broken and sick with worry,
| G C.@e II. COghlin, the father, paced
the veranda of his home in Norris
town waiting for the word that failed
to come THE Crank" sat stolidly
staring into space smoking cigaret-
trS lis lips sealed his secret unds
ti,scd
.I11rly it becomes more evident
Mat pasGualC has told nothing def
ri'c enough to incr'h nate others in
tie kidnapping, ana that he has furn-
| iSaed no Information winch would
hep To uncover he whereabouts of
| tl,e baJ%. While tie sieuths vii! not
admit that such is The case, it seems
apparent that the have run against
ii stone wall
More than forty-eiGLt hours have
| elapsed since THE Crank made his
alleged c,u.Tss:oT. alI tie .s,}y has
| uOt been fcr"d. The police now
| brand his whole story as a lie.
Since last Friday. when he told the
| police what lie alleges TO be the real
story Of the kidnapping, lie has had a
compai>,:iH 2ly easy line of il. Grill
ed without mercy since his arrest at
! Egg Harbor, n. J., The Crank" has
| presumably weakened and made
| confession, vas given good meals,
| plenty Of cigarettes and allowed to
sleep until he regained his composure.
In the meantime the police set about
| running down the clews arising from
| his confession.
These cIews have been run into the
ground, and the baby has not been
| found. Not a trace has been obtained
| of THE Crank's" alleged confeder
ateS, either and detectives have
| branded his story as Pigment of the
| Imagination. Feeling runs high in
| NOrristown. Unquestionably he will
be taken to the Montgomery county
seat for trial 1t was there the crime
was committed, and there he must
answer for it. The charge against
him will be kidnapping; it may be muir
| der.
The state police have declared that
there is evidence enough to convict
him of stealing the Coughlin baby. in
/ addition, he will face q federal. cha Ne
of misuse of the mails and blackI
There is no question of his convi
! on that charge, for he has adm
his guilt
/ Police are loath to admit their
use to uncover any valuable evidence
since the alleged confession. The
story had the ring of truth, but its
vagueneSs has made it valuless. Pas
Quale insists the actual kidnapping
, w. done by a man named Joe, a for
mer cell-mate.
/ He declares that he and Joe plan
ned a robbery in Norristown, but be-
came separated the night of June 2.
| The next day he met Joe, who said
that while he wasn't able to pull off
| the job he planned, he had done some
thing better-that he had kidnapped
millionaire'S child.
Pasquale said Joe and a woman of
| the tenderl0in took care of the baby,
and that because of the illiteracy of
the pair he was compelled to write
| the ransom letters He admits he got
| his share of the $4,000 Mr. Cough
lin put back of a trolley station at
| Swedeland, and that they planned to
get an additional $4,000 at Egg Har-
| Dor
This scheme was frustrated by the
state police who captured Pasquale.
'rhe Crank" declares he never saw
the baby, and does not know where
Joe and the woman now have it.
However, Pasquale has failed to
identify Joe from any pictures at
the H0lr.esburg reformatory, where
he said lie served time, or from the
extensive ra%ues' gallery at city hall.
He las, ll.Cy ise, failed to establish
the identity OF the girl. He has, in
fact. prepared an alibi for himself,
but has thrown no light upon the ac-
tuaI kidnlping.