BODY FOUND IN FURNACE
CHILD VICTIM OF CRIME
NEW YORK YOUTH ARRESTED
NEW YORK, October 14.
The incinerated body of Nancy Costigan, the five-year-old daughter of tha sales manager of an English silver firm, was found tonight in the basement furnace of one of the most exclusive apartment buildings of Mount Vernon, a suburb of New York, the child being a victim of one of the most fiendish crimes in. recent years.
The body was discovered by a building employee who followed a trail of blood. The police arrested Lawrenea Stone, a youth with a criminal record.
A police automobile, responding to a call, collided with another automobile near the scene of the crime. As three injured policemen wei;o being lifted into an ambulance, Stone, whose clothes were bloodsoaked, climbed in, claiming that he had been injured in the same accident, but this was disproved and his arrest followed.
Witnesses allege that they saw Stor talking to the child earlier.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 92, 16 October 1934, Page 9
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