CRIME ADMITTED
THE CASH KIDNAPPING CASE CONFESSION BY SUSPECT. NO AID FROM ACCOMPLICES. (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) MIAMI, June 10. Mr J. Edgar Hoover announced that Franklin Pierce McCall (whose arrest was reported yesterday) had confessed to the kidnapping of the Cash child, thus enabling the. Federal Bureau of Investigation to consider its case against McCall as completed. McCall finally disavowed having any accomplices and said he had placed handkerchiefs over the eyes and mouth of the boy when, he carried him off from the Cash home, and that the child was suffocated accidentally. He then threw the body into a palmetto swamp.
McCall’s reasons for the kidnapping were that he “had been wanting the good things of life for my wife and myself and was unable to get steady employment.” McCall at first attempted to implicate the child’s uncle, but Mr Hoover declared that the latter was completely exonerated.
McCall will be charged with murder and kidnapping, for both of which the penalty is capital punishment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 7
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168CRIME ADMITTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1938, Page 7
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