Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-13
MANIACSEEN
KIDNAPER
IN MICHIGAN
Body OF Five-Year-Old
Girl Mutilated After
Mother Saw Her
Seized Near Home


FLINT, Mich, Jan. 1s.-tRp-A
man who police said answered I'm %
general way the description Of
man sought as the kidnaper and
slayer OF year old Dorothy
Schneider was arrested here today.
His name was withheld pending .
further investigation.
FLINT, Mich. Jan. Is.-tFt-The
most intensive msn-hunt in Michigan
history today sought tha kidnaper
and slayer o. five year old Dorothy
Schneider.
Kidnapped from ardsr the eyes OF
her mother, wife OF an automobile
factory worker. the child was taken
In an automobile 10 tha country-side
near Mt Norris. not far from hera.
and bruta1y slain. The child slayer
then disse ted the body and stuffed
a portion of IL under the ledge OF ice
bordering q creek.
Some portions ot the body vsrs
still missing today.
Dorothy was hrrrying home from
kindergarten shortly after noon yes-
terday. She was snatched from the
sidewalk a block from her home. Her
mother, watching for the child from
the porch, saw q man drag her into
an automobile and then drive away.
Trace Body
Discovery OF the body was made
By posses and officials, stirred To
action by the mother, who ran
screaming TO the nearest police gtA-
ton, after witnessing the kidnapping.
The officials traced a dilapidated
sedan which the man was driving to
n spot adjacent TO the farm of Archie
Bacon, near Mount Morris. Bacon
told police he saw the man alight
from the car carrying n bundle which
he hurried to the woods. The man.
according % Bacon, returned TO the
car two hours later, minus the
bundle, and extricating the machine
from q mud hole where 10 was stuck,
drove away. In the creek which runs
through the woods officers found the
mutilated body.
Coroner Brasie. who conducted an
inquest, said indications were that
the child died OF a stab wound IN the
heart and that the body was dis
sected after death. He expressed the
opinion that the deed was the work
Of q maniac.
The fugitive was described m
about feet 10 inches In height, OF
and slender. He was wearing a light
suit, and dark overcoat.
Enlist Troops
Chief OF Police Scarvada enlisted
the aid OF state troopers who threw
out a Gordon several hundred miles in
circumference. Every highway and
side artery in this section was under
rigid patrol within an hour after dis
covery Of the body, while possemen
secured the inner terrain.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Schneider were pros-
trated. The couple, in modest cir
cumstances, have one other child.
Kenneth, years old.
"A grim object lesson 20 persons
unduly sympathetic with criminals
was provided last night BY Sheriff
Frank Green, who called In members
OF every woman's civic organization
in the city and invited them 20 view
the remains Of the child.
The invitation was accepted and
the club women filed silently By tha
slab where the mutilated body lay.
At the conclusion Of the episode. the
women were ushered quietly out or
the morgue. They were deeply ~
fected.
II wanted % bring home 70 thess
people," Sheriff Green said, "the
danger and futility ot pGmperins
criminals"
FLINT, Mich. Jan. l3.-fRf-Mr-
and Mrs. Leslie 9. Schneider, grieY-
stricken parents of five year oid
Dorothy Schneider, kidnapped, brutal
" slain and her body mutilated yes
terdsy, spent a sleepless night a.
their home on the outskirts ~ Mount
Morris, anxiously waiting word from
searchers who kept up an all-niEht
1 hunt for the slayer.
"They must find him." the fatner
repented over and over again as IN
paced the living room of their little
horne. stirred By emotion. Of sorro"
ard bitter anger. "He can't get away,
They won't let him"
TrwAN F0T-~D DEAD