The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-28

again." Marks on his arms had appeared as though made by a hy- podermic needle. This, he said was an example of his historionic art.
 Had Worked Alone
 Hoover said he was convinced that Milne worked alone. Federal agents had questioned Robert Keaser, his brother, John L. Smith, and Max Ritkin, who found Milne in the ditch, and his brother, Fred eric, who received the first note.
 Milne and his brother, had been living in furnished room in New York. Caleb received $10 month allowance from his grandfather. Frederic is a clerk employed by J. P. Morgan and Co. "Hellish t1nan- cial affairs" caused him to carry out the hoax, Milne said.
 Reveals All Details
 Milne said he went to Trenton, N. J., by bus and stayed there until the following Wednesday, spending his time reading books in 8 public library. There he mailed 8 note demanding ransom to his grand father.
 Wednesday he went to Lambert vile, N. J., by bus. That night he set out on foot toward Doylestown and when about five miles from his starting point, threw away his hat and overcoat. He walked a few miles further, choosing a likely place where he could be found.
 There he taped his lips and eyes with adhesive tape and tied himself with rope he had brought along. Then he threw himself into a ditch. where he was found later by four youths.
 They took him first to 8 nearby doctors home, then to the Doyles- town hospital where his realistic performance of man suffering from hunger, exposure. and the after effects of narcotics was, fed eral agents admitted, first class art. The hospital doctors apparently took his symptoms seriously and told Harold Nathan, Hoover's assistant, that they would not be responsible If they questioned him too severely. Milne was kept under guard at the hospital several days, then taken to his mothers home in Woodstock.
 Federal Agents Suspected
 Federal agents, checking his story, became more and more convinced that 1t was q hoax. Yesterday aft ernoon they brought Milne here and confronted him with their evidence After hours of questioning, he broke down.
 The questioning was conducted by Nathan, Rhea Whitley, chief de- partment of justice agent for the New York area, and Inspector Michael F. McDermott, New York police department.
 Hoover refused to divulge the full text of the confession, but read summary of Mines account Of his plot and events during his absence while police and federal agents hunted him over virtually all the east.
 Milne said he conceived the hoax Dec. 4 to 5, while worrying in the furnished room he and his brother occupied about his inability to ob- tain work. He mulled the idea over for three or four days, determined definitely on its execution about Dec. 8 and immediately began prep arations to put 1t into effect.
 Prevented Finger Prints
 He bought a pair of cotton gloves tube of mucilage and 8 rubber printing set at 5-and-10 cent store the gloves, he said, were to be used manner of criminals about whom he wrote in detective stories he had attempted unsuccessfully to sell. ! At home, when Frederic was ab- sent at his clerical work for J. P. Morgan & O., Caleb painstakingly clipped letters and words from newspapers and pasted them on