The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-06
Peggy McMath And
 Strange Kidnapping
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| Thursday afternoon, when Me- Math asked that all officers be withdrawn from Cape Cod, and Needham refused.
 Less than twelve hours after this request Peggy, blindfolded, was placed in an automobile beside her father not far from the Me- Math home, according to the girls own story. She was taken imme- diately aboard a boat, she said. But 1t was not until late yester- day that police discovered Peggy was back. They had their first tip through Boston policeman who reported being commissioned to guard the transfer of $S0,000 In currency from a Boston bank to Harwichport.
 After questioning associates of the McMaths and members of the family, police sought Coast Guard aid, and yesterday evening a picket boat moved alongside the 50-foot auxiliary sailboat of William Lee in Wychmere harbor. Coast guards men, armed and ready for Q fight went aboard Lees boat, the Bob They did not know what to expect but what they found was pretty domestic scene. Peggy was drink. ing milk and eating fruit beside her father, with Lee and Buck and others sitting nearby.
 McMath explained then hii promise to the kidnapers that ht would keep Peggy on the boat fol the police disagreed. They brought At.A ssttS SntA eku NAAAa LavA ard immediately started the grill. At first Peggy, McMath and Lee were examined in different rooms their stories being checked con. later by Needham, added little oi value to police, though 1t was a dramatic story coming from the lips of the ten-year.oid.
 Later others joined the confer ence, including:
 George Bacon, vice. president of the Merchants National bank of Boston, from whose vaults the ran- som money apparently came; Ralph Fl. Snow, treasurer of the Cape Cod Five Cent Savings bank at Harwich, to whom the money was consigned, and who was be- lieved to have delivered 1t to Me- Math; E. E. Hall, chief of the Harwich police; and Frank D. Smith, assistant prosecutor of Q district centered at Taunton. Will liam c. Crossley, district attorney of New Bedford, had been asso- ciated in the examination from the start.
 Needham seemed particularly in- terested in learning whence had come the $S0,000 of which all but S10,000 later went to the kidnap- CTS. McMath himself, e boat build CT here, had been represented by Lee as having little money, though his father, Francis c. McMath and his father -in-law, William Robert Kales, both of Detroit, are regard ed as wealthy.
 some phases of this case are worth the utmost scrutiny" Need. ham said.
 On one thing. at least. all off, cials in the case were agreed. Peggy, they said, unanimously, is a brick. She told her story straight. forwardiy, and showed unusual powers of observation for ten- year-old. She assured them she was not afraid at any time, and she stood up firmly for the man who had cared for her at hide- away where she was held most of the time. He was a friend, she in- sisted. who sought only to return her to her parents without letting kidnapers get her.
 Mrs McMath, 1t was learned for the first time this morning, visited Peggy on Lees boat yesterday morning, while police of dozen states still were maintaining viz liant watch for signs of possible kidnapers. The mother spent half an hour on the boat and then re- turned to shore lest suspicious be aroused that the girl was aboard.