The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-11
DENIES INTENTION
OF Staying CHILD
BY II. J. ARoNSTAM
United Press Staff Correspondent

United fresS Staff Correspondent
MIAMI, Fla, June II. (UP)-
A young Florida farmland con-
fessed late yesterday that he kid
mapped fve-year-old Jimmy Cash
for $4,000 ransom because he
wanted the things of life" and
that he accidentally strangled the
boy by stuffing handkerchiefs, in
his mouth as he snatched him
from his crib on the night Of May
%.
The confessed kidnaper, 81
year-old Franklin Pierce Mccall,
broke down after more than go
hours of almost steady grilling by
Federal Bureau of Investigation
men, and gave a "full and COM
plete" description of the crime.
Mccall, who has been in GUS
tody since last Monday, previous
ly admitted he was the writer Of
three ransom notes, which result
ed in payment of the $4,000 by
James B. Cash, SIR, the boys
father, and later led Omen to
the place where the boys body
was found.
He denied, however, that he
had been the kidnaper. Federal
men continued to question him all
Thursday night and Friday, and
shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon (EDT), ]. Edgar Hoo
yer, chief of the FBI, called in
newspapermen and announced the
case had been Solved"
He said McCall's "full and. com.
plete confession" had exonerated
other suspects in the case.
Hoover said the young farm.
hand, married but childless and
the son and brother of ministers,
told him he did not intend to kill
the little blue-eyed boy, but the
child apparently suffocated while
he was carrying him to a hide
away.
The tall, husky farmland was
removed secretly from the FBi
headquarters to a "mob proof"
cell in the new Miami county
iaiI. He was booked "for inves.
tipation" and a 24-hour guard
was posted over his cell.
Meanwhile the body of his VIC
tim was buried at Graceland Me-
mortal cemetery in southwestern
Miami, with only the child's par
ents, a few relatives and a dozen
close friends of the family at
tending.
Hoover told newspapermen he
had been convinced that Mccall
was the sole kidnaper two days
ago when he first began to crack,
hut he did not want to announce
the solution of the case until all
susnects had been exonerated.
He said Mccall had attempted
m involve R. A. Cash, the kidnap
victims uncle, and that it had
been necessary to "exonerate
Cash completely" before breaking
the case. AS soon as this was
done, McCall's confession was re-
Mccall said he had planned to
kidnap the Cash boy to get mon
CIV to buy "the things of life ne
wanted for himself and his wife.
He explained he first planned two
other kidnapings in princeton,
Fla, where he lived and where
Little Jimmy was kidnapped, put
finally decided upon the Cash boy
because he formerly had lived IN
the Cash home. L..
The prisoner said that on the
night of May % he went to tne
Cash home, the lower floor OF
which is a combination genera
store and filloing station, and
found Mr.. and Mrs. Cash tnere;
He asked the time, and Cash toid
him it was $3.50 o'clock.
After spending a few minutes
there, Mccall said he went around
to the rear of the Cash home, cut
the screen door with his knife and
unlocked the door and went into
the bedroom where the boy was
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