The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-22
BODY OF CINCINNATI GIRL.
KIDNAPPED and KILLED BY
FIEND, FOUND In CELLAR
Tragic Discovery End of
Widespread Search for
Five Days.
SLAIN NEAR HER HOME
Clerk Makes CHASTITY Find
as He Goes to Basement
of House for Wood.

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By United Press
CINCINNATI, O., Dec. %.
The body of Marian Nc
Lean, fair-haired 6-year-old
child, who was abducted, at
tackled, and slain, was found
today.
The child lay, face up, in a
musty cellar a block from the
cottage where she and her
mother, four days ago, were
making exciting little plans
for Christmas.
The child's torso had been mutt
lated. She had been choked.
After a general hospital autopsy,
it was announced that Marian died
of bleeding and shock, the result
of an assault.
Marian was the victim of a
mental defective, there can be no
doubt of that said Coroner M.
Scott Kearns, who sped to the
scene with a squadron of police
cars sent to control a fury-driven
throng milling through the neigh
borhoOd.
Body Found in Cellar
For four days, since her disap-
pearance with a tall, dark Stran-
ger" late Thursday, officers pressed
the search through the city and
surrounding territory
Then today Charles Bischoff went
to his cellar to chop kindling wood
He lived on the second floor of the
house.
Lying on boards, dinly revealed
in the light of a candle Bischoff
was using, was the body of Marian
Her tiny blue tam o. Shanter had
| slipped from her tusled hair. Her
eyes were swollen. The cheeks
were stained from tears.
Death doubtless was caused
within the last twenty-four hours
the coroner said.
The childS disappearance had
laid a touch of sadness and anxiety
on homes throughout the city
where Christmas day was awaited
with suspense by children.
Mother in Mysteries
Mrs. Mildred Mclean, weakened
and dazed by the days of unccr-
tainty, lost herself in hysteria when
the news reached her.
Police opened lane in the
throngs of curiosity driven persons
who shouted madly for revenge.
Mrs. Mclean was escorted from
the cottage where Christmas pres
entS remain concealed. They are
gifts she can not bestow She lived
alone with Marian. The father
Joseph Mclean, left his wife two
years ago and is in Phoenix, Ariz,
The mother was taken to police
headquarters, where che might have
privacy in her grief and she coulC
be cared for by matrons and rela-
tives.
Three men gave police their only
clew to the slayer. They had seer
man enter the cellar where the
body was found.
They were Harry Cox, Aller
Clark and Albert Overlook.
THE man stood on corner hall
an hour" they said. He was nerv-
Gus, obviously, and kept eating ap-
pies from a sack he had.
Three Others Slain
FINALLY, he walked into the house
at 428 East Twelfth street"
It was in this house Marian's body
was found.
1.-The man was about 30 years
old. He was rather tall and dark
complexioned. We did not see him
leave, although we stood conversing
near by for half an hour
Three other small girls have met
like fate here in the last dozen
years. Two of them never were
found. The body of the third was
tossed on the porch of her home
None of the abductors was appre-
hended.
The house where Marians body
was found is about 100 feet from
the place where she last was seen
alive by Julius Servuzzi, II, neigh
Dor boy.
Servuzzi said Marian watched him
washing his motorcar and laughed
at the antics of a dog which put
its dirty paws on the bright tenders
after he sfined them.
"A little while afterward," said
Servuzzi, II saw her with tall man
going down an alley. He was a
dark man, foreign looking"
Servuzzi's statement was borne