Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-21
FIND BODY
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began an intensive search for a spot
ted face man who, Six-year- Old girl
told them. invited her q few weeks
ago into the basement where the
murdered boys body was discovered
today.
Irving was the only son of Mr.
and Mrs. SAM Pickelny. His father
has tailor shop on Grand street,
and the clothes he made for Irving,
always spic and span, were the envy
of the other boys in the block. -
Four weeks ago Irving's mother
took him to visit his aunt on Orch
ard street. while she went shopping
In mid-afternoon Irving disappear
ed. All that night. and every day
and night since then. his father has
searched for him, accompanying de-
tectives. as more and more of them
were assigned to the case. in run
ming down the numerous tips" and
''clues" furnished by anonymous let
ter writer's
The mother was Frustrated. 4
few days ago another grieving moth
err whose three months old baby,
Lillian Mckenzie, was kidnapped
last spring. prayed with Mrs. Pick
elny that their children might be
returned to them unframed. A
newspaper offered $4,000 reward for
news of Irving's fate.
While the father persisted in re-
fusing to believe Irving dead, police.
on a mysterious tip. began sys-
tematic search of the thousands OF
Easements between Canal and Grand
streets. from the Bowery to the
East river.
Just outside the scene of search.
hn n
their lights through the cluttered
basement of u five story tenement on
Suffolk street. 1t was gloomy.
creepy place. reached by tortuous
stairway at the rear which opened
on six sided areaway overshadow-
ed by high buildings and accessible
to hundreds of tenement dwellers.
The basement was pitch dark and
quiet. Occasionally, piece of plaster,
loosened by the vibration of trucks
rumbling over the cobbleStones of
the street thudded on the earthen
floor. The lights of the repairmen re-
vealed piles of rubbish, boards and
empty crates.
When they first saw the boyish
form on the box, the men thought
1t wax figure, remembering the
tailor shop overhead. A few. min
ures later 200 police were trying,
with little success, to keep back the
thousands of outsiders who thronged
the street at news that the. Pickelny
boy had been murdered.
The boys faher heard of It as he
waited at a police station, red-eyed
from sleepless nights. for detectives
to renew their search of the neigh
borhood. He wanted to rush to the
scene but was restrained until the
body could be taken to Bellevue
Morgue. There he identified. bit by
bit. the clothing. his boy had worn.
When finally the face was revealed
to him he sobbed. "My boy My boy"
and was carried away.
Mrs. Pickelny collapsed when the
news was brought to her. Not until
this evening, when her husband wasN
able to accompany, her. was she per-
mitted to see the body
Through the description given
them by the little girl on Suffolk
street the police have a. good picture
of the degenerate they believe mur-
dered Irving. Their theory is that
he saw the boy playing outside his
aunt's home and lured' him to the
building occupied by tailor shop
like his fathers. The man did not
give the boy candy or anything else
to eat, as the autopsy disclosed. He
may have enticed him into, the base
ment, police believe. by promising to
show him some rabbits or birds. for
Irving was known to have been very
fond of such pets.
The crime committed down there
where not even a loud cry would
have been heard upstairs or on the
street, the murderer could have es-
capped to the tailor shop, through a
freight trap-door. by.tway of the
courtyard to half dozen other
apartment Railways with street exits.
or up any one Of three fire escapes
which led to surrounding housetops.