The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-12-14
SLAYER Of Child
LEADS POLICE TO
CUMBERLAND TOMB
Tells Story Of Deliberately Kill
ing 10-Year-0Id Girl With
Meat CIeaver
LETTERS REVEAL IDENTITY
Painter, IS Years Old, Declares
Blood Lust Seized Him,
Feels Better Now
LETTERS REVEAL IDENTITY

Feels Better Now
New York, Dec. l4.-(FHA number
Of human bones and q child's slipper
were found by searchers in Westchest-
er county Friday as police questioned
in the lineup here Alfred H. Fish, 60,
confessed slayer Of Grace Budd. 10
year-old girl who disappeared six
years ago.
The slipper was of the sandal type
and in it were found number Of
small bones.
DR.. Amos o. Squire, Westchester
county medical examiner, said after
the bones had been found that he
believed there was q sufficient num-
Der to reconstruct q skeleton. Au-
thorities also rely on the slipper as
quick means OF Identification in order
to satisfy the legal requirement Of
establishing the corpus deficit In the
case. They planned to bring it to
New York to have members Of the
family identify it as slipper worn
by Grace when she disappeared.
Police said Fish who has been iden-
titled by members Of the dead girls
family as the man who lured Grace
away on the promise to take her to a
birthday party. spent sleepless
night and had not eaten.
Leads Police 10 Spot
Fish led police to deserted house
in the Worthington woods, Worcester
county. late Thursday. Buried in the
vicinity was the body, butchered BY
a meat cleaver.
Detective William King said the
prisoner. in his detailed description
Of the staying, left no doubt that the
crime was committed to satisfy blood
lust
King said an anonymous letter IL
legedly sent by Fish to the Budd fam
lily after the girl was killed contained
IN intimation Of the possible founda-
ton for the blood lust" motive. The
letter said the writer's brother served
in the navy in China In 1894 and was
forced to eat human flesh.
Butchered by q meat cleaver, the
body was found in three parts, the
skull buried In the woods near ram
shackle house In East 1rvington. the
other bones by road.
1.-THE blood lust seized me-" the
wizened 65.year-old house painter
said. But I'm glad it's over now.
Helping the police find the body
somehow makes me feel better"
To the family which had never
known what had befallen their child.
then ten years old, since she walked
hand -in-hand with . stranger into
one OF Americas most nystifying KID
napings, the swift solution came - =
shock.
1T was horrible thing" said her
father, Albert Budd, land this makes
it worse
Identified by Father
The father and brother Of the
girl, Edward-who originally had been
marked for the murder-confronted
Fish and identified him as the man
who disappeared with Grace. He was
charged with homicide and kidnapping.
Police pounced upon Fish In mid
town postoffice substation Thursday
while he waited for remittance from
son In CCC camp.
The last of a series Of cruel letters
to the Budd family had been received
only q few days ago, written on the
stationery Of an employment agency.
and tracing It back, police came to
the catch.
spontaneously Fish launched into
confession, but he was cut short and
taken to police headquarters where he
told q complete and coherent story.
It's text was not divulged. but Police
Commissioners Lewis J. Valentine said
It ran thus:
Contemplating the killing in adj
vance. the man had bought q meat
cleaver, saw and butcher knife,
wrapped them in tarpaulin and
checked them e. news stand.
Then he went to call at the tene-
ment home OF the Budds, whose son
Edward had advertised for farm
Job. Fish represented himself as one
Frank Howard, and said he had
farm near Farlningdale, farm that
existed only in his Imagination.
Intended to Kill Boy
He intended to take the 18-year-old
boy with him and kill him. but upon
meeting the family was captivated by
delicate little Grace, with her big blue
eyes and brown hair, and marked her
instead for the massacre.
He returned few days later-it
was June 3, l928-said he was not 60
ing to his farm until the next day.
and invited Grace to accompany him
that day to q party he said his sister
was giving for some children.
Delightedly, the child pinned rose
on her white dress and went with him
Ito death.
After picking up his baleful bundle.
Fish took her by train to the west
leicester hideaway which he knew to
be unoccupied. He had lived ~ 2
nearby house eight years ago.
! Telling the child to play IN the YARD
until the other guests arrived, he went
Into the house, laid out his gruesome
array Of tools and called her. She
came to him.
It was three days later he returned.
1T was there that they found the body
Thursday night. the skull, . few bones
and tattered remnants Of tarpaulin.
i ROBBERS GET sls.soo
Toledo, O., Dec. H.-(R)-Three
robbers escaped with more than $l0,-
600 Friday after holding up two en-
; ployes Of the WQQdville, o. STATE