The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-17
Mother Killed His
 Sister, Said Jimmy
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happened. I think mommie hit me on the head but don't remember" :"
 Asked where he lived, the boy mumbled something that sounded like Bryant street." He said he thought the number was 32. Officers found no such address in directories available here.
 Jimmy, who was clad in a sailor suit with blue trousers and a white blouse when officers found him yes- terday, told questioners he was a Catholic and went to church at "Our Lady of Mount CarmeP church.
 Officers followed bloodhoundS from state police barracks through the woods for further clues.
 Efforts to identify the children failed as rapidly as possible clues were turned up. The boys words led officers to believe he went to school at a Catholic institution in Astoria, but a check disclosed the children were not known there.
 One Clue Fails
 Officers believed for while that the children might be the son and daughter of Raymond Cataldo, 9 Riverhead, N. Y, salesman who said he had not seen his estranged wife and two children for years. He looked at the girls body and vis- tied the boy and was unable to say whether they were his children. Detectives, however, established con- tact with Mrs. Cataldo in Brooklyn and learned the children were safe Riverhead police quoted Cataldo earlier as saying the girl was hls daughter.
 Detectives checked the story o1 Mrs. Theresa Moscato, operator of a filling station near the woods III which the children were found. S11e said she saw "frail-looklng woman carrying a cardboard box enter the woods Saturday afternoon with boy and girl. A couple oi hours later the woman emerged, Mrs. Moscato said still carrying the box but no longer accompanied py the children. ., Mrs. Moscato refused to view the girls body or visit the boy. She Sald she couldn't stand" to see them She remembered the incident, she said, because the boy was "so cute" Ofhcers saw significance in the wolnan's statement because of the fact that the children's coats, hats and shoes were missing. They might have been carried out of the woods in the cardboard box, police believed. Girls Body Found The girls body was found by May Savage and Warren Brady who were strolling in the woods yesterday. The girls body was about 135 feet from where the boy lay. She had been cut with a hatchet, the blood stained handle and head of which were found by officers, and her throat had been cut. Her clothes had been sprinkled with gasoline, officers said, and ignited. Large blisters on her back, physicians said, indicated she still was conscious when the fuel was touched of.
 The boy, his throat slashed with knife, has a chance to recover, physicians said.
 District Attorney L. Barron Hiu said at Riverhead that he would dl- rect the investigation personally.
 My name is Jimmy" he salo over and over.
 Mumble Some Name
 The authorities told him gently that his last name was more im- portant. He was slow to understand, then mumbled something that sounded as if it might be Kiernan, Keenan or Keane. He talked of a companion named Helen. Police be- lieved Helen was the dead girl, his sister.
 By patient questioning, it was learned that Jimmy had been riding with his father and mother and a man named "Joe." He was asked who had hurt him, and he said:
 Joe did, and he hurt mama"
 Then Jimmy exclaimed:
 Mama is in the woods yeti"
 Through the night Brookhaver policemen, sheriff's deputies and scores of volunteers beat through the woods and thickets in an at- tempt to find some trace of the child's parents.
 Knife, Scissors Found
 A bloodstained bread knife and 2 small pair of scissors, also stained were found about 40 feet northeast of where Jimmy had fallen, weak from loss of blood from the 4-inch gash in his throat.
 There were indications of severa! attempts to fire the underbrush near where the girls body was found, but the ground was so damr from recent rains, that the fires had soon gone out.
 The girls throat had been cui from the right side to the center Her body was badly blistered across the shoulders, along the back arac down the legs. Her face was black leading some authorities to believe that she had been strangled. There was no indication of criminal as sault. ] Medical examiners believed that