Evening star., 1934-12-16
MYSTERY COTTAGE
YIELDS 50 BONES
Budd Case Prisoner Ques-
toned on Other Girl
Disappearance.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December i5.-The
discovery of 80 bones, buried in the
basement of the Westchester County
cottage in which Albert H. Fish says
he killed l0-year -old Grace Budd, was
announced tonight by investigators.
Medical Examiner Amos o. Squire,
supervising the search of the aban-
doned death house. said the bones
would be analyzed to determine
whether they were those of human or
animal.
"All I can say is that they are SIM
liar to human bones" he said. "Of
course. it is possible that the people
who lived in this house may have
buried their dogs under the basement
floor. But I would be better satisfied
with that theory If We could find a
few dog skulls"
Fail to Fit Skeleton.
None of the bones, which varied
from about one to eight inches in
length, fitted in with the skeleton of
the Budd girl, whose remains were
found buried outside the house, at q
spot to which Fish led authorities.
Fish. 65-year-old painter, has
steadfastly denied knowledge of any
of the other children who have dis
appeared in this area during the last
few years.
Coincident with the discovery of
the bones, DR.. Squire announced re-
ceipt of a report from DR.. Gilbert
Daldorf. a pathologist, saying the
stains on a butchers cleaver found
at the house were made by human
blood.
Fish has told authorities he dis
membered the body of the Budd girl
with a knife, a cleaver and a saw.
after Turing her to the cottage six
years ago.
Another Mystery Unsolyed.
In an effort to solve the mystery
of the finding of child's body near
Darien, Conn, last July, two officers
from that community came to New
York today and questioned Fish for
half an hour in the Tombs.
When they left they made no COM
ment.
The bones unearthed at the cottage
were sent to Columbia University lab
oratories for microscopic scrutiny by
anatomy experts.
The house having been thoroughly
ranSacked, Dr. Squire declared the
search would be continued tomorrow
by pumping dry two wells on the
property.
Explaining the renewed search Of
The cottage, DR.. Amos o. Squire, county
medical examiner, remarked that the
slayer of the Budd girl would be apt
to commit other similar crimes"
Although stolidy anxious to clear
up all angles in the Budd case, the
wizened little prisoner disclaimed
knowledge of any other children who
have vanished from their homes.
Wryly he told police they might as
well accuse me of all" of the unsolved
cases, saying you can't do me any
more damage"
Prosecutors encountered their first
knct in the rapidly unwinding skein
of evidence when a dentist who had
treated Grace Budd before she disap-
peared six years ago failed to make a
positive Identification of a skull un-
earthed near the death cottage.
The dentist, DR.. H. L. Bielefeld, said
he had made two extractions, but had
not filled any of the girls teeth. An
effort was underway to find the dentist
who put in three filings.
Positive Evidence Sought.
His identification of the filings,
coupled with DR.. Bielefeld's recollec-
ton Of the extractions, would give
prosecutors, they said, a positive
enough identification to establish that
Grace Budd was dead, step neces-
sary to prove she had been murdered.
District Attorney Frank H. Coyne of
Westchester, asserting he would seek
the death penalty, said he would ask
the grand jury to return first degree
murder Indictment next week.
Whether Fish would be transferred
Immediately to that county for trial
remained in doubt, as Assistant Dis
trict Attorney P. Francis Mario of New
York said he was not through investi-
eating the abduction possibilities.
Fish was arrested Thursday by
Detective William F. King, who said
today that a Summer course in
psychology had helped him break the
ca CO after a lonc search