The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-28
BABES IN WOODS
 CASE SOLVED
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 the bodies of the man and the woman are held, and to Carlisle, where the bodies of the children are. These witnesses operate tour- ist camps where the Malones or Cuwdens or Gardners stopped on their trip across Pennsylvania. If a good proportion identify the bodies police will regard the mystery solved and the case closeds
 Saturday, Nov 17. a man and 9 woman and three young girls Tn an old Oakland automobile stopped at tourist camp at Waynesboro, Pa. The main said they were hard up" and asked for reduction in the 75 cents per person charge for accommodations.
 The request was refused and they drove on, eastward. The man was between 35 and 40 years old, wore eye glasses and had a pair of overalls drawn lover a blue serge suit.
 At Tourist Camp
 That same night at Gettysburg, 20 miles from Waynesboro, the group halted at tourist camp operated by Mrs J. Snyder, paying l SAYS. At Waynesboro the man gave his name as J. c. Cowden, of Val lejo. The Gettysburg register was ink spotted and police could make out only J. C.-Vallejo, Cal.
 Sunday, the following day, the same party ate lunch in restaur- ant in North Philadelphia, 100 miles away. A diner noticed they divided a meal barely ample for two among five, and bought them more food. The following morning they breakfasted in the same place, and that afternoon registered at a tourist camp kept by Mrs Goodwin Dill at Longhorne, Pa, 20 miles from North Philadelphia, on the main highway to Trenton, N. J. Tho man registered as J. c. Malone, oi Vallejo, Cal.
 That night, Mrs Dill was asked tc take care of the girls while the man and the woman went to the movies. The next night she per formed the same task. The next day | "Wednesday, Nov 21,) they checked l out. Dill remembered part of the license number of their car. It wet 611-C, California. She remem. bered they drove toward Philadel- phia.
 Suitcase Is Found
 The following morning a suitcase containing children's dresses it three sizes was found behind tree 50 yards from the highway neal Carlisle. That night at Altoona, g man and a woman, the man wear. ing glasses and overalls pulled lover a blue serge suit, registered at a boarding house as Mir and Mrs J. c. Gardner of Philadelphia. They had no baggage but the woman ! carried a long coat over her arm The next day, (Friday), they checked out.
 Saturday the body of a man who wore glasses and overalls pulled | over a blue serge suit, was found in an abandoned railroad statlor at Spring Meadow, 15 miles iron Altoona. The body of a woman was beside him. At about the same time, the bodies of three little girl. were found under one blanket in the south mountains near Carlisle three miles from where the bag oi | children's clothing was found. Man and Woman the Same Police said there could be nc doubt but that the man and wom. an who appeared at all these place. were the same. The camp keepers remembered the children as gray eyed and fair-haired, fitting the de. scription of the dead girls. They established that the dresses in the bag belonged to the dead children Also found in the bag was a wash cloth marked with an "X" by black threads drawn through with a nee. dle. A cloth, marked in the same way was left behind by ths Malones at Langhorne.
 Coroner M. A. Haegele of Car. lisle announced that the girls had died of suffocation. He believed SC meone had killed them one by one, either by holding 2 thumb or the wind pipe until life ceased, oi accomplishing the same result by pressing a pillow over the mouth and s0aa