Evening star., 1938-06-10
NO0NE A|DEDH|M
IN K|DNAP CASE,
FLOR|DAN SAYS
Placed Handkerchief Over
Lads Mouth, Found Him
Dead Later, He Says.
TELLS OF TOSSING BODY
INTO DENSE THICKET
Prosecutor to Present Evidence to
Special Grand Jury for
Action Monday.
hy tie Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. June 10. Edgar
Hoover announced today Franklin
Perce Mccall had confessed the entire
Cash kidnap and that he killed
5-year-old James Bailey Cash, jr.
The director of the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation said McCall's admis-
sion detailed that he stole the boy
from his bedroom while he slept.
placing . handkerchief over the
child's mouth and another over his
eyes and took Skeegie to his home,
where he found the boy was dead.
Mccall had no conferedates at any
stage Of the case, Mr.. Hoover reported.
Flung Body in Thicket.
Mccall said he thought at first the
boy stiIl was asleep, Mr.. Hoover de-
clared, but when he found after about
IS minutes he was dead he took the
child in his arms and ran and walked
to a spot in the woods near his home,
with which he was well acquainted
from hunting trips. There he flung
the body into . dense thicket, where
it was found early yesterday morning.
Having disposed Of the body, Mr..
Hoover continued, Mccall returned to
his own home to get the first Of three
ransom notes, which he had written
| in advance.
Then, despite the death OF the little
| victim, he took it to the shack of
colored man, John Emanuel. Disguis-
| ing his voice, Mccall tried to persuade
the man to take it to James Bailey
Cash. ST. When Emanuel became
frightened and fied Mccall placed it
under his door,
Although no formal charge has been
entered against the husky young truck
driver, Mr.. Worley said he would pre-
sent evidence to q special grand jury
Monday on which 1t might indict Nc
Call for the two crimes, both capital
offenses in this State
Mr.. Worley said he xASped to bring
the case to trial speedily, possibly
within three or four weeks
Wife Is Frustrated.
McCall's father-in-law, Joseph Hill
Hard, said Mrs. Mccall was prostrated
and that Mccall had acknowledged to
her his part in the case yesterday
when she and other members of the
Hilliard family were questioned at the
r. B. L ONCE and released.
"She never expects to see him again."
Mr.. Hilliard said. "She wishes Moth
ing more to do with him.
| THE boy has ruined two families,
his and mine, and We want to see
justice done"
He added Mccall had sent his wife
to North Florida just before the kid
naping and expressed the opinion hes
was planning it then.
At Princeton the parents prepared
to bury their 5-year-old only child.
whose body was found early yesterday
II days after he was stolen from the
Cash home.
Recovery of all but IS Of the ran
som money, 9,750 from one place and
$245 from another, presented a puz-
zling angle which Mr.. Hoover did not
explain.
He said Mccall directed agents to
both hiding places. The major por-
tion Of the money was found cached
in an orchard early Wednesday. but
where officers discovered the $245 late
yesterday was Mr.. Hoover's secret.
A coroner's jury examined the body
and the spot where it was found. but
adjourned until tomorrow afternoon
without returning verdict.
Mccall, truck driver and minister's
son, had lived until last April in an
apartment in the Cash,s residence. He
accompanied Mr.. Cash on a mission
which resulted in the finding of the
nrst OF three ransom notes at the
home Of Asbury Cash. an uncle of the
boy.
Delivered Third Note.
The second note was found in a
Negro shack. Mccall himself delivered
the third note, saying he discovered it
under the door of a filling station
owned by w. P. Cash.
This led to his arrest. Sheriff D. C.
| Coleman said he noticed the note had
been wadded in a ball and became
suspicious because 1t could not have
been slipped under the door in that
shape.
Then, the sheriff said, he learned
Mccall had established false alibi.
Taken to Federal agents by the
sheriff. Mccall was released after
questioning. He returned to Princeton
and Joined the widespread search for
the boy while G-men secretly kept
watch on him.