Evening star., 1946-07-02
Degnan Case Suspect
Denied Writ; Faces
D Serious Charges
By the Assccjoted Presx

BY the Assccioted Press
CHICAGO, July 2.-Chief Justic,
Harold G. Ward in Criminal Cour
today denied a writ of habeas CORPUS
to William Heirens, IT, Chicago Uni
persity student, questioned about tn,
Suzanne Degnan kidnap-slaying
The court ordered Heirins remandee
TO the custody of the States attor.
ney and of police.
James V. Cunningham assistant
States attorney, told the court hi
offlce would not ask a further con.
tinuance, and said formal charge.
involving assault and burglary woule
be filed "as soon as possible prob.
ably within an hour.
Mr.. Cunningham told Judge Ware
these charges would total 10, includ.
ing one of assault with intent tt
murder, three of assault with intent
to kill and IS of burglary.
None Involve Degnan Case.
None of the charges involved the
Degnan case, the States attorneys
office said.
Heirens was brought into court at
Has am. and sat dejectedly on the
front benches of Judge Wards court
The judge appeared at noon and the
ruling was given at 1902 pm.
After several hours of questioning
Of the youth in the kidnapping, slay-
ing and dismemberment of the g.
year-old Degnan child last January
7. States Attorney William J. Tuohy
disclosed plans for filing charges.
Police officials said there were sew
eral new developments in the case,
which they said further linked the
youth with the Degnan crime. They
said the FBI reported that prints of
Heirens left palm was "identical'
with palm print on the Degnan
$4,000 ransom note. The FBI said
Saturday the print of Heirens' left
little finger was identical with a
finger print on the note.
Heirens Shown Telegram.
Mr.. Tuohy said Heirens had been
shown the telegram sent by the FBI
IN connection with the palm print
and that he said: 1T looks pretty
bad for me. but I wasn't there"
The States attorney said the
youth had remained firm in his
denial of any connection with the
Degnan crime. He has been oues
TONED several times since last Fri
day. Yesterday after he was re-
moved from the Bridewell Hospital
to the detective bureau at Central
Station, he volunteered to take a
second lie detector test, but Chief
of Detectives Walter Storms said
results were "inconclusive" and
Heirens was "unco-operative."
Police officials also announced
that in test samples of Heirens
writing he misspelled two words
waite" and salty" exactly as those
words were misspelled in the ransom
note. They also said that police
had found pad of paper similar
to that used in writing the ransom
note in a washroom at Gates Hall,
at the University of Chicago, where
the youth lived.
$3.50 in War Bonds Recovered.
Police also said they recovered a
bag containing $3.50 in War Bonds
in a checkroom of the Howard
street elevated North Shore line sta
ton. officials said some of the
bonds were taken in three burglaries
they attributed to Heirens.
Tuohy and police officials also dis
closed that ballistics tests showed a
gun found in Heirens dormitory
room on the university campus had
been used in the mysterious shoot
ing of Mrs. Marian Caldwell in her
home last December. Mrs. Cald-
well, who was not seriously wound
ed, signed a complaint against
Heirens charging assault with in
tent to kill, Chief Storms said
Three similar charges, in connection
with the attempted burglary last
Wednesday, also will be filed, police
said.
Mr. Tuohy said that one case of
assault with intent to kill, in con-
nection with an assault on Miss
Evelyn Peterson, Fort Dodge, Iowa
a former Army nurse, would be pre-
sented to the grand Jury today,