The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-08

started to cry out.
 Police still were searching for Su- Eanne's chubby arms, the only por- tions of her body which had not been found.
 The child apparently had never been taken from the neighborhood after she was lifted from her bed early yesterday, carried through Q window and down a seven-rung lad- der. The ladder, with one rung missing, was found nearby.
 Look for BlOOdstaIns
 Police searched darkened corners of apartment house basements In the neighborhood for tell-tale blood- stains that might show where the body was dismembered,
 More than one hundred police aided by two-man squads enlisted from the Chicago department of sewers, hunted for the girls missing arms, believed to have been hidden nearby.
 Mayor Edward J. Kelly spent more than four hours during the night personally directing the in- vestigation.
 The mayor was closeted early to- day with the distraught parents, MT. and Mrs. James E. Degnan, in their home. Degnan, 80, who dis- covered his daughter missing and found a ransom note demapding $20, 900, is a Chicago OPA official,
 Allays Mothers Fears
 Emerging from the Degnan home, Kelly issued this statement:
 T want to give assurance to the mothers of Chicago that police are carefully guarding all districts to prevent recurrence of such 8 crime against Chicago's children.
 Tt was a terrible thing and must have been done by maniac"
 There were strong indications that the pretty first grade student may have been killed accidently, then dismembered and hidden in an effort to conceal the crime,
 Police said an axe or meat cleav- CT was used.
 Police said they were questioning seven suspects.
 One suspect, a 17-year-old groc- cry clerk, was taken into custody after neighbors reported he was slightly demented" and might have had access to a cleaver or other sharp implement.
 NegrO's Hairs Found
 In one of several telephone calls to the Degnan home, where detec- tives had tapped wires, a man de- manded ransom and said he had lock of Suzanne's hair and a part of her blue pajamas.
 Police said the same man had called the home late yesterday.
 Investigators said they found on the victims chest two black hairs, believed to be those of male Negro, which were to be chemically anal yzed.
 Coroner A. L. Brody, who pro- the head-found floating face upward in a catch basin-as that of Suzanne, said:
 Tt could possibly be that the per- son entered the bedroom, the girl awakened and probably recognized him or her and started to scream. Then the murderer might have grabbed her throat to stif1e the scream, perhaps accidentally stran- gling her"
 No PrOwlers Seen
 No one had yet reported any sus- picious figure proving the alleys of the neighborhood. The killer ap- parently worked in the pre-dawn darkness, dropping the disrTembered body into the sewage filth a few hours after taking the child from her bed.
 The head, legs and and torso, were severed by clean strokes of a sharp instrument.
 Chief of Detectives Walter Stormsj said the head, discovery of which was the first evidence that Suzanne had been killed, was found first, 12 hours after Degnan reported his daughter missing from her first floor bedroom.
 Storms said the head had just been identified by two family IEHCI4OS W1lc1l LAlc 1AB4lI ACS WoS found less than a block away by de- tectives.
 Torso Found in Bag
 The torso, Storms said, was dis covered in @ fourth sewer half a block from the head and left leg. The torso was encased in a 50- pound paper bag, bearing the one word-"sugar."
 The legs had been severed at the hip.
 Police experienced difficulty in holding back hundreds of "very high strung" curious and sympathetic persons who thronged the area.
 Police, so hard hit by the atrocity that they could not face Mrs. Deg nan, asked her parish priest, the Rev. George Kearney of St. Ger trude's Catholic Church, to break1 the news.