Evening star., 1934-12-14
BUDD KIDNAPPING
MYSTERY SOLVED
Slain ChiId's Body RecoV-
cred After Six Years
and Man COnfeSSeS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 14-The
grave of Grace Budd disgorged evi-
dence to clinch solution today of the
kidnapping and killing of the child
and incrimination Of Albert H. Fish.
Fish, after mocking her family by
mail since the crime was committed
six years ago, was captured finally
through the letters, which he himself
sent; confessed and led officers to the
little girls timberland burial place.
Butchered with a meat cleaver, the
body was found in three parts, the
skull buried in the woods near a ram
shackle house in East Irvington, the
other bones by road.
THE blood lust seized me-" the wiz
ened 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 10 years old, since she walked
hand-in- hand with stranger into one
of Americas most mystifying kidnap-
ings, the swift solution came as a
shock.
Only Another Horror.
"It was a horrible thing" said her
father, Albert Budd, "and this makes
it worse"
The father and brother Of the girl,
Edward-who originally had been
marked for the murder-confronte
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 post Office substation yesterday
while he waited for remittance from
son in a c. c. c. camp.
The last of series of cruel letters
to the Budd family had been received
only a few days ago, written on the
stationery of an employment agency,
and tracing it back, police came to the
catch.
Spontaneously Fish launched into
a confession, but he was cut short
and taken to police headquarters,
where he told a complete and CO.
herent story. Its text was not di-
vulged, but Police Commissioner Lewis
j. Valentine said it ran thus:
Contemplating the killing in ad-
vance, the man had bought a meat
cleaver, saw and butcher knife,
wrapped them in tarpaulin and
checked them at a newsstand.
Boy Object Of Plot.
Then he went to call at the tene-
ment home of the Budds, whose son
Edward had advertised for a farm
Job. Fish represented himself as one
Frank Howard, and said he had a
farm near Farmingdale, farm that
existed only in his imagination.
He intended to take the 18-year-old
bow 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.
He returned a few days later-it
was June 3, 1928-said he was not
going to his farm until the next day,
and invited Grace to accompany him
that day to a party he said his sister
was giving for some children.
Delightedly, the child pinned rose
on her white dress and went with him
After picking up his baleful bundle,
Fish took her by train to the West
chester hideaway, which he knew to
be unoccupied. He had lived in a
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
tools and called her. She came to
him. 1t was there that they found
the body last night.