The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
SLAIN CH|LD'S
BONES FOUND;
KILLER HELD
Confession Is Claimed by
N. Y. Police: Girl Missing
Six Years.
By United Press

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WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Dec. IA
Police digging in dirt and debris in
Worthington Woods for the body Of
1O-year-old Grace Budd this after
noon found bones of a child's legs,
arms, toes, fingers and vertebrae.
The find was near where a small
skull was found yesterday.
Search for the body of the child
who disappeared from her home
six years ago followed the arrest in
Ney York of Albert A. Fish, IS. Who
is alleged to have confessed the kid
mapping and murder of the girl. Fish
led officers to the Wesctester County
Woods where the skull and several
other bones we're found.
Bones of 10 Year-Old
DR.. Amos o. Squire, Westchester
County Medical Examiner, inspected
the bones unearthed this afternoon
and said they were from the body
of a 10-yeear-old.
Nearby in a rubbish heap were
found five small shoes, one of which,
a sandal, was described as the type
of shoe worn by Grace when she
left her home.
Fish, a wizened little man, blinked
in the spotlight at the police lineup
this Afternoon and told of the ''lUSf
for blood" that led him to kidnap
the 10-year-old girl six years ago
and hack her body to pieces.
Something overcame me-" he
mumbled, his restless eyes straying
over the audience that included DR..
Allan r. Dafoe. savior of the Dionne
quintuplets.
Fish, "a, gave brief, low-voiced re-
plies to questions of Acting Captain
Thomas Dugan as the investigators
found the additional verif1cation of
his story in the childs bones.
st can't account for it," the gray
haired petty thief said in the line
up, twisting his hat in his hands.
Il never had anything to do with
any other children . but when I
saw her the temptation overcame
me-"
Twice Under Treatment
He admitted he had been twice
under treatment for mental dis
order. Then he repeated to District
Attorney Frank Coyne of Winches-
ter County, the confession that he
took the girl to the cottage On the
pretext his sister was giving party
there and, as she came into the
house laden with wild flowers,
choked her to death.
In Brooklyn, the child's mother
said bitterly:
Il wish I could get my hands on
him. I would rip his face off. I
would pour kerosene on him"
Later Fish was arraigned in
Homicide Court and charged with
the homicide and strangulation"
of the girl. The hearing was put
off week, pending determination
of whether the prisoner shall be
tried in Westchester or New York
County.
Takes Six Years Work
New York detectives have worked
continuously on the case for six
years, but probably never would
have solved it had not Fish set out
to deliberately torture the parents
Last spring, Albert Budd and his
wife began receiving anonymous
letters, diabolically phrased and
limiting the child had met a horri-
bic fate. but still leaving grounds
for hoping she was alive.
The letters were mailed mostly
in one Manhattan slib-station
Finally one was written on an en-
ployment agency's stationery. The
agency described Fish, who fitted
the description of Howard He was
arrested at the main postoffice
where he presented a check from
his son, a CCC worker, for payment.
Estranged from his wife, Fish has
five children. He was surrounded
by detectives and postoffice in
spectors.
You are wanted for the kidnap-
ing of Grace Budd," he was in
formed.
Through his small, steel-rimmed
spectacles he stared at them. Then
he launched into confession.