The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-23
CHILD KILLER
IS HUNTED BY
POLICE ARMY
Far Flung Search Launched
for Murderer of Gin
Cinnati Girl.
SUSPECTS ARE CHILLED
CIeWS Are Few to Fiend
Who Kidnapped and
Slew Victim.
BVUnifed Press


CINCINNATI, Dec. ga far
flung search carrying authorities
into every quarter of the city fol-
lowed today the discovery of the
body Of Marian Mclean, 6, kidnapped
and murdered as she joyously
awaited the arrival of Santa Claus.
The search, linking all resources
of police and fire departments,
yielded arrests of two suspects, who
were questioned
One of the suspects was a AZ
year-old hermit, who lived in a
shack in the neighborhood. In one
corner of his hut, police found a
bucket, partly filled with murky,
red-coloHed water. The suspect ad-
mitted, police said, that he had been
hopping the floor with the water.
City chemists we're to make an
analysis of the water today, in an
endeavor to ascertain if the coloring
is blood.
Start Systematic Search
The child'S body was found in the
cellar of a tenement house Tues
day, five days after she disappeared
in company with dark looking
stranger, her suspected murderer.
She had been criminally attacked.
These attacks and loss of blood
caused her death, in the opinion
Of DR.. j. M. Patterson, deputy
coroner.
Aroused by the brutality of the
crime, the department of safety
flung every resource into the search
for the murderer. More than $50
firemen and policemen joined in a
systematic search of the neighbor-
hood adjacent to the tenement,
which was less than 100 feet from
the spot where Marian and the
stranger last were seen by
neighbor boy.
The quest, yielding few clews, was
extended to a general manhunt
throughout the city.
Knife Is Found
One of the meager clews which
police held was a knife, found
plunged into the soft dirt of the
cellar floor near the body. The
knife contained no blood stains and
its presence, police felt, was a crude
ruse designed to screen the real
cause Of death.
The chief object of search was
for the prison chamber where the
pretty fair-haired child had been
held captive before her death. This
occurred, the assistant coroner re-
ported, less than fifteen hours be-
fore the body was found. The body
had been carried to the tenement
basement from some other place,
presumably in the same neighbor-
hood, police said.
While the most frenzied search in
the city's history was in progress,
Marian's mother, Mrs. Mildred Nc
ACdL, was BIlel-SbTlCken
Funeral on Saturday
Il don't know how 1 can face
Christmas now" she sobbed, bury
ing her eyes from the toys and
trinkets, which she had bought for
Marian her only child, last week.
Services will be held Saturday at
st. Patrick's Catholic church, Cow
ington, KY. Six of Marian'S play
mates will be pallbearers.
Evidence that the murderer in
tended to bury the child was dis
covered today. In the soil of the
cellar where she was found, a small
excavation had been made. It ap-
parently was intended as a grave. A
shovel was nearby.
The grand jury today returned a
John Doe indictment to prevent de-
lay in prosecution and possibility of
habeas corpus proceedings in case
the attacker is found after the Jury
adjourns.