The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-04
Cash CIYESUP
HOPESON WILL
RETURN ALIVE
Florida Kidnap Case May
Settle Down to Pro.
longed Affair
BLOOD-SMEARED RAG
NO CLUE in CASE

PRINCETON, Fla, June 4.
(UP)-James B. Cash. Sr., today
abandoned hope that his kidnapped
| son, Jimmy, still is alive and pre-
dicted that the body of the five
year-old child will be found in a
week or 10 days.
Acknowledged and weary after
a week of frantic efforts to locate
the blue-eyed little boy, Cash said
he had resigned himself to the
conviction that his son is dead.
During the hectic days since the
boy was kidnapped and the $4,000
ransom was paid, the father had
chung staunchily to the belief that
he would see his son alive once
more.
az have given up all hope of
finding my son alive" he said.
The small town businessman
whose son was kidnapped from his
baby bed one week ago tonight,
gave no explanation of his belief
that the body shortly will be
found. ....s
After three days Of the most
exhaustive manhunt ever under
taken in Florida, an army of 5000
soarehers, virtually, had. concluded
that if the body is in this area, it
never will be found.
Cash talked with newspaper
men for the first time since the
abduction. He displayed obvious
indications of the strain under
which he has lived since the kid
naping. Mrs. Cash, near postra-
ton and under care of a physician
since her only child was snatched,
appeared with her husband.
The father told of his converse
ton last night with j. Edgar Hoo
yer, chief of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation who is leading u
men in the attempt to track down
the baby snatchers.
"Mr. Hoover visited us last
night and said he naturally ex-
poets to solve this case" Cash
said.
At his belief the child is dead.
Cash showed no animation at
prospects of a solution which
could not involve the safe return
of his son.
Both he and his wife thanked
the thousands who conducted the
inch-by-inch search of southeast
ern Florida for clues" :.
"Both Mrs. Cash and myself
want to express our deepest and
most sincere thanks for the hund,,
reds of people who have dropped
their work and jobs to come TO
our assistance in the attempt to
find Little Jimmy and the kidnap-
ers," he said.
Owe are very grateful"
Il was Cash's second appearance
outside his apartment since the
kidnapping. Yesterday, he rushed
TO a flooded rockpit near Home
stead in belief he was about TO
identify the body of his son. The
object, however, proved 10 oe
mains of a dog. o,.
Weary after the frantic week,
he returned to his home, reviewed
the situation with his wife, and
resigned himself to the belie1 MS
son is dead.
Meanwhile, Omen took a new
IL =; +boir marhunt.
Thev decided that the criminals
had been motivated by a oeslre
for vengeance on the father al
most as much as by desire 1or
money. ,, ,f tho
Federal Bureau of lnvestlgaton'
directing a small army OF G:m men,
personally interviewed the tatnet
in his apartment adjoining his
Genera, store last right. They
were closeted for as minutes ana
when they left, Hoover,s assistant
carried bundle Of clothingM;un
derstood to be the baby's clothing.
It was reported that the 1atner
had GONE over in detail his entire
business career in this Rediands
farming county rs miles south OF
Miami, and had named any enc
mics he had made. l., h;s
Acting on Hoover's orders, ms
men established semi-permanentt
headquarters here, indicating tna'
the federal determination to cap.
ture the criminals would not aoa9e
no matter how long it takes. IL
was apparent that they had not
single clue to the Whereabouts OF
the child's body (no one pelleSea
that there was any but the bares arrest
possibility of his being yet alive
and very slender clues, If any, 70
the kidnapers. Though authoritl-
es maintained the customary Sc
crecy, it was a general impression
that the case might drag on for
weeks-even months.