The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-22
Mrs. Jennie Leach's , Slayer Is Uncaught
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one J. Henry, retired criminal 1 ogist."
 | "rhe only thing that appears de- | finite in this affair is that the wo- | man iS dead and someone IS suS- | pected of killing her, q young man | named Calabrcse for the time be- l ing, anyway. Stories give one the l impression that if Calabrese does- mt weaken and confess the police will have to take cold trail again and seek new motives and new suspects. There certainly has been plenty of effort made to solve this | case, but from disinterested point l of view 1t appears SS if there are too many fingers in the pie and
 every one is working on the quiet
 and in opposition to the other. The papers are carrying denials from officials, which is indicative that someone is saying or doing something that someone disagrees | with.
 Let's look at the case from the beginning. Within q few minutes after the body was found the vi- cinity of the sand pit was overrun l with cops, detectives, members of the "Crime-a- Week" Club or some similar associations. They Mussed up all the essential footprints in the snow and destroyed lot of possibly good leads.
 After all the excitement 1t was discovered that everybody was present but tho chief inspector of the detective bureau.
 T understand that he is q vet eran investigator of some 35 years of service and somewhat of an au- thority on fingerprlnts and has all the qualifications of q good detec- tive. He was informed of the mur- der about ten hours after 1t had been committed"
 'The young detectives who worked on the case. as I see 1t, went home early the morning fol- lowing the crime and left no print cd reports for their associates to study and carry on. Naturally they were tired and your system doesn't require written reports of progress made. Well some hours later de- tectiyes working on what someone heard from someone else, not off, clally connected with the depart ment. took some pictures and tried tc find q clue where the conven- ton of curious spectators was held the night before.
 That same day your detective burcaus most experienced men were sent out on minor complaints. to drive fl bank messenger around or to take up some case of no rel atlve importance. In the afternoon the night men came back on duty and told what they knew or learned. The trail was cold then and some valuable time was lost
 It was apparently figured that
 Hith Calabreac's arrest everything was jake.
 "r understand that your coroner between hearings in court made some inquiries from the witnesses, but was not provided with any in- formation obtained by detectives or policemen. Calabrese was left alone for few hours to sober up and rehcarse his alibls.
 Next we learn that the state's attorney's office is working on the case, which is news to the police and the coroner. When the states attorney assistants learned that the coroner and the police didn't know they were in on 1t, 1t was news of course to them. The investigations have became series of surprise tp LIP OhtN'oiDs " "fh pV rather tough on them all. If Gala brege upseta their hunch, demands his release or is brought into court
 within q reasonable time on habcas corpus proceedings and says I'm not guilty. You're all suspi. cious, but prove It." 1 would suggest that all the boys go into a huddle and agree on a course of action 1 They will get somewhere then and that won't be in each others way. What information one officer ob- tains in this probe Is his secret. They ought to pool their collections Of information and try to i'll in the missing parts of the puzzle"
 "As I sec things in Waterbury you have some mighty fine talent among your police, but it's being wasted. Your system of whatever you call criminal procedure around here is something terrible. One good detective is worth flock Of so-calIed investigators. Waterbury has plenty of material in which to fashion several good detectives but for some reason nobody appears interested in such serious matters. Whats the tie-up in this town any way. From my observation this city has been lucky to get anywhere under the system in yogue.'
 Some day when l have time l