The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-27
SCHOOL Girl OF
MASS. MISSING
WOburn High School Pu-
pill Disappears; Chinese
Doctor Being Held

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woburn. Mass, Oct. T-(UP)-l
Police announced in district court
today they have uncovered 'damag-
ing evidence" against Q Harvard
educated chinese physician held In
the strange disappearance Of a 16
year old Woburn Junior high school
girl.
AS result Of this statement, Judge
Curtis w. Nash rejected the pleas
of DR.. Ensang w. Cheng, 81, and
Henry J. McCue, "a, Woburn florist
and state prison parolee, that their
bail of $4,000 each be reduced.
Meanwhile, state and local police
continued search Of the 70-acre es-
tate of the Chinese doctor in ada
cent Reading for traces Of dark
haired, brown-eyed Catherine Their
esa Dulong, feared the victim of IL
legal surgery. The girl visited the
doctors home September 10 and has
not been seen since, according to her
mother Mary.
Doctor Enters Plea
In a packed courtroom, DR.. Cheng
pleaded not guilty to charges Of IL
legal surgery and kidnapping, while
McCue pleaded not guilty to an IL
legal surgery charge. They were Or
dered held in $4,000 each for hear.
ing November 10 on the illegal sur
gerry charges, and DR.. Cheng was
held in $1,000 peronal recognizance
on the kidnapping charge.
Protesting the high bail, Attorney
Anthony w. DiCecca of Somerville.
representing DR.. Cheng, asserted:
"Dr. Cheng is professional man.
If this is a fishing expedition, his
future will be ruined"
DiCecca and Attorney Names e.
Henchey of Wobllrn, representing
McCue, asked that bail be reduced
to $4,000 in each case. 81
Police Chief jeremiah Cullinane
Of Reading told the court that he
had been investigating the case since
yesterday morning and that he AL
ready had uncovered damaging evil
dence." He did not reveal the nature
of the evidence" but urged con-
tinuance to permit further search,
and his request was granted.
Hope She Is Alive
IT hope that she is still alive"
said Middlesex District Attorney
Robert F. Bradford today as he took
personal charge of the search.
Less optimistic was Police Chief
Charles r. McCauley, who said there
were indications she may have been
slain"
DR.. Cheng, who graduated from
Harvard medical school In 1911 to
become New England's first Chinese
physician, was seized at his office in
Boston's Chinatown late yesterday.
Almost simultaneously, Woburn po-
lice arrested McCue who was freed
from prison in 1886 after serving
five years of o Is to 20 year term
for criminal assault.
Police entered the case yesterday
when Mrs. Dulong, wife Of a WPA
worker and mother of seven other
children, told social worker that
Catherine had failed to return from
DR.. Cheng's Reading home.
II thought everything was all
right" the mother said. Catherine
telephoned me three times. She
asked me to come up and see her, but
told her I couldn't"
Last Time She Heard
The last time she heard from
Catherine, she said, was September
%. Prior to that, the mother said,
a younger sister had visited Cath
crime three times and another girl
had made two visits while she was
confined to the Cheng home.
The district attorney said DR..
! Cheng had reported to the Reading
health board September 20 that he
had treated Catherine for social
disorder"
Suave, polite little DR.. Cheng told
police that Catherine visited his
office only once, and on that occasion
! he treated her and she left in an
| automobile driven by a man. DR..
Cheng's white wife, the former Linda
Basse Of New Orleans, La, corrobo-
rated his statement, adding that on
two occasions when Catherine ap-
peared at the house, the doctor was
away and the girl left without seeing
him.
McCue was quoted by police as say
ing he drove the girl to the doctors
house on September 3 and September
10 but categorically denied the
| charges lodged against him.