Evening star., 1933-05-09

HARWICHPORT, Mass, May 9.-
Chief Of Police Emulous E. Hall today
announced he had discovered the true
hiding place in which Margaret Peggy
| McMath was kept by kidnapers before
her recovery last week. He said he
had found pit feet deep and so feet
from the dungeon" previously pointed
! out, but under the same rambling va
! cant house
A water bottle tin cracker case, q
| jar that had contained cocoa, sand
wiches and fruit: a mattress, quilt
| and an old sweater were found, he said
after he and Patrolman Robert Whiteley
had crawled 80 feet on their hands and
knees under the house. The chief said
| he expected the utensils found might
yield f1ngerprints that would be i'm
| portant as evidence in the case.
Suspects Quizzed Again.
He drove this morning to the Barn.
| stable Jail and began a further ques-
| tioning of Kenneth and Cyril Buck
| brothers. who have been arrested in
connection with the kidnapping of the
! little girl, daughter of Neil C. McMath
| formerly of Detroit.
Chief of Police Hall said he was not
satisfied with the dark hole that had
been pointed out earlier as the place
Where the girl was secreted. He said
, 1t failed to answer the description she
had given, and he set out to make a
complete search Of the premises last
light.
No cellar ever had been dug under
| the house, but, crawling beneath the
structure, he said. they came to the pit
which he said Tailed more closely with
the girls description Of the place where
she was hidden.
Lighted by Small Window.
1t was lighted by small window in
the foundation of the house, but too
high above the bottom of the pit to
permit the girl to look out The place
was about 10 feet long and feet wide
and contained three-quarter size bed
mattress, an old yellow quilt and an old
sweater, which lay beside the mattress.
bottle filled with water, a jar partly
filled with cocoa and a cracker tin.
upon which lay several ham sandwiches
wrapped in paper. were lying in the pit
| One end Of the paper wrapping of the
sandwiches had been opened and the
sandwiches laid back on the cracker
tin. This, Chief Hall pointed out, cor
| responded with the girls statement that
she had become very tired of her diet
any more.
| In addition, a banana and two
oranges were found in the pit
Peggy" today was attempting to re-
| turn to the normal tenor of her childish
| ways as two men, charged with her alb
| duction, languiShed in Barnstable Jail
In low, rambling house on a hill
| overlooking Wychmere Harbor. where
| the child was found aboard a yacht
last Friday night, her father and family
were trying to forget the sensational
| events of the past week, in which their
| names were bruited across the country.
| Lieut. Detective Ernest Bradford Of
the State police. in charge Of the Cape
Cod district, was expected to return
here to check certain angles of the
case. He refused to discuss his inten-
tions, but observers were puzzled by
discrepancies in the stories of the 10
year-old girl and Kenneth. Kenneth
was charged with kidnapping and his
brother with extortion.
Yesterday the Buck brothers were
| arraigned in Barnstable District Court
at Provincetown. They pleaded not
| guilty and were held in $780, 900 bail
/ each. Their cases were continued until
May %.
! Peggy" had said a Negro man OF
a man with a blackened face had called
for her at the Harwich Center School,
on the day she was abducted, but Ken
meth, although police said he admitted
he blackened his face with burnt cork
shoppers and then drove to the school,
| to pick her Up, told reporters while
seated in the dock of the Provincetown
District Court that blackened face
was not part of his alleged machina-
| tions.
| Voices Were Different.
| Peggy" also said she believed the
man who picked her up at the school
house was a different person than the
one who transported her from the Gran
berry shack to the dingy, low cellar
of the house She said the voices were
different. The alleged confession indi-
Gated that only Kenneth was involved
i In these operations
Chief of police Hall asserted that
/ the rehearsal by Kenneth of his ac-
tions during the kidnapping was not
an exact duplication. Kenneth, ac-
cording to police. had confessed that
when he took the child from a cram
berry shack, in which he had first
/ hidden her, to the cellar in the house
in which he kept her until he made his
final contact, he took a route along the
edge of bog and jumped over a ditch
with her in his arms. This happened
in the dead of night, according to the
! confession police released.
| Hall said it would have been ex-
tremely difficult for Buck, a small man
to hold the child in his arms and leap
the ditch, feet wide and about 3
feet deep. There were two logs laid
across the ditch but in the re-enact-
ment In daylight, Buck slipped and fell
as he attempted to negotiate it alone
Intimates Another Involved.
Kenneth at the court house con-
tinually intimated there was at least
one other person involved in the crime
but when questioned further he refused
| to elucidate. He did say that he would
| tell the whole story" to his lawyer,
but officials were little concerned with
| his assertions.
Cyril had contended that he was
! innocent of any wrongdoing and that
his sole interest in the case was to re-
turn the child to her parents
Meanwhile, William Lee, associate of
McMath in the boat building busi-
ness, had relinquished his position as
contact man and started off in his
automobile with his wife for Balti-
| more, Md. Before leaving he obtained
permit to carry pistol saying he was
taking precautions these days"
MRS. B. W. LEWIS DIES