Evening star., 1938-06-05
G-MEN PUSH WORK
ON K|DNAP CLUES
Carpenter Apparently Is Still
/ HeId-'Trouble With
S Cash Is Reported.
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
PRINCETON, Fla, June At was
o full week ago tonight that kidnapers
snatched slumbering James Bailey
Cash, jr., from his bed, and his father,
commenting publicly for the first time,
said today he and his wife had aban-
doned hope they ever would see their
only child alive again.
Agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, with Director j. Edgar
Hoover personally on the ground,
doggedly pushed their examination of
clues.
M. F. Braxton, 50-year-old Prince
ton carpenter who was taken dra-
matically by G-men from a crowd
near the Cash home Wednesday, had
not returned to his bungalow here and
his son-in-law, Ray Rayburn. was
absent from the homestead, so it was
presumed they still were being held.
Willard Campbell, one of those ques-
toned and released, told the Miami
Daily News in copyrighted interview
that the Braxtons figured they were
being held because they had a little
difficulty with Bailey Cash-it was
something about debt they owed
Bailey"
Lie Detectors Used.
Mr.. Campbell also said all those
questioned were subjected to lie de-
tector tests. He was we'll treated, but
was not allowed to consult counsel.
In two noncommittal press confer
ences, however Mr.. Hoover emphasized
that all persons questioned so far
had been voluntary witnesses" that
no arrests had been made and no
charges filed. No Federal law viola
ton has yet been found and the kid
napers, If apprehended. would be tried
In the State courts under law max
ing kidnapping for ransom a capital
crime.
Mr.. Cash, his face gaunt and his
shoulders sagging, came to the porch
Of his frame apartment house and
was asked if he thought the case would
be solved.
Yes, think so. as far as catching
the fellows who did it is concerned"
he answered. Once we catch them
we will be able to find out what they
did with the boy"
Posse Shrinks.
He posed for pictures for the first
time since the abduction, but said Mrs.
Cash was too indisposed to appear.
She has been under physicians care,
but is improved.
Search for the body and for possible
clues went forward in the area north
and south of here. Henry Cypress,
spokesman for group of Seminole |
Indians participating in the hunt, ex-
pressed certainty the boy would not |
be found in the Everglades, to the |
west.
I'VE search all sections Everglades |
where automobile go-boy not there"
he explained. Lazy white men not |
carry boy far from automobile. Him
too heavy"
In contrast to the army of 1000
volunteers who beat over every inch |
of ground in this vicinity Wednesday.
when the search started, and the
posses OF double that number Thurs
day. only about 400 men were in the
field today. Half of them continued
the search through the Florida Keys
and the desolate Cape Sable region
which started yesterday and the others
explored the area between here and
Miami
Planes and Boats Used.
Planes and boats were used in ad-
dition to ground crews. Divers de-
scended into rock pits and coastal
waters.
The Cash boy, blond, blue-eyed
lad who would have been years old
August 2, was stolen from his bedroom
by abductors who let themselves in the
back door after Sitting a screen. The
father received three notes in which
$4,000 ransom was demanded and
paid the money on a solitary drive
Tuesday morning over a route mapped
In a note.
Mr.. Hoover said every bank and
police station in the country had been
furnished a list of the serial numbers
Of the ransom bank notes.
If any of the bills are spent, agents
believed, it will be only question of
hours before the F. B. I. is notified
and the trail of the kidnapers un-
covered
The volunteer fleet cruised among
the Florida Keys and along the south
eastern coast. The planes circled the
Cape Sable region.
Foot searchers near the cape pushed
through some of the worst country
yet to be covered.