The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-09

and his wife, Angellne, who live in the Degnan neighborhood.
 Inseparable Companion
 Mrs. Smet was released after questioning. But her husband was held for Q lie detector test.
 Smet, known as "five-by-five" because of his stocky built, is GUS. todian of three apartment buildings near the murder scene and an inc separable companion of Verburgh, police said.
 Detective Sgt. Jack Hanrahan said he saw ernet at { p. m. yester- day in an alley near the Degnan home and that Smet promised to help search for the missing parts of Suzanne'S bdoy.
 Mrs. VerbuEgh Released
 Mrs. Verburgh was released early today after chief of detectives Wal ter Storms said she was "the type who can not successfully take . lie detector test"
 Police said they did not yet have sufficient evidence to place a forHn- al charge agS.nst Verburgh.
 The arms Of allEAlsae, daughter of James D. Degnan, 6 $7,0O0-a-year OPA executive of whom the kid- naper demanded 320,000 ransom, were StiIl missing.
 Speculate On Bones
 Her head, torso and legs were found Monday night from the filth of separate sewer openings within @ block of her parents fashionable Edgewater Beach area home.
 Bits of bone were found in ashes in the furnace of the apartment house where the child was killed and dlsmembered and police be- lieved they might be all that re- mained of the child's missing arms,
 As one of the greatest manhunts in Chicago's history continued, an autopsy showed yesterday that the chubby first.grade Catholic school pupil had been strangled before the sadistic killer slaslled her to pieces.
 Haclsaw, AK Found
 Verburgh, janitor for three near" by apartment buildings, lives In a basement flat . scant block from the apparent scene of dismember. ment and directly across the street from the Degnan home.
 Police said they found 6 five. inch-bladed hackSaw in a locker near the home where the body ap- parently had been dismembered. In Veyburghs apartment they found an ordinary saw and an ax. De. tectiveS said any of the tools could have been used to nutilate the body.
 Coroner's physicians, however, said they did not believe the axe and saw were used to disSect the girls body, but rather sharp knife was the dismenberment tool.
 Analysis Made
 A paper bag bearing the name. Frank Sd, had been used Eo wrap one of the girls legs. They said they learned this belonged to 6 l0-year. old occupant of the building, and probably was stolen. The bag had held tinker toys, one of which was imbedded in the slain girls body.
 Chemical analysis were being made of these gruesome finds.
 Although verburgh denied any connection with the brutal kidnap- staying. detectives said that hand. writing on his ration book was siTrl- liar to the printing of the ransom note found by the girls father on the floor of her bedroom.
 Suspect Denies
 Storms said that Verburgh denied everything and claims he went to bed at 10 D. m. the night before and arose at five a. m. the day Of the murder. Mrs. Verburgh said 1t would have been impossible for her hus.. band to have left the bed without her knowing it."
 Clues considered important by police included four fingerprints on the window sill of the Degnan girls bedroom, a 5O-pound paper sugar bag in which the victims torso was found, a muslin dressmaker's pat tern found in the bag, . six-rlng ladder believed to have been used by the kidnaper to enter the room, and footprints outside the bedroom
 Nine other suspects were scheo- uIed to be released today.
 Supported By Alumni Suzanne's 36-year-old father eali- ed newsmen to his home late last night and thanked them for what you have done" Degnan said funer- al services for the kidnap murder victim would be held Friday. A pub lie Mass will be recited.
 The father ssid that he, his wife, Helen, 3A, and their only other chiid' Betty, 10. would leave for WoSces- ter, Mass. Sunday to visit Degnan's mother.
 The Holy Gross Club os Boston revealed last night that t he'd promised Degnan 1t would raise the e2O. 900 demanded by the kidnaper- The chiId's father formerly attend- ed Holy Gross.
 Suzanne was born at St. Eiiza- beth's Hospital in Brighton, Mas.