Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1934, Page 9

14 POLICE SEIZE TRIO INRACE BET RAID Elaborate Switchboard Is| Found at Fourteenth Street Address. The three men arrested late yester- | day during a raid at 1712 Fourteenth | street, where police found an elaborate | telephone switchboard, supplying rac- ing information, were released under $2,000 bond each, pending a hearing before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, December 19. The men were arraigned before | Turnage shortly after the raid yester- day and he set the amounts of their bonds. Each was booked on charges of conspiracy to violate the gambling laws and setting up a gaming table. Three Are Booked. Those arrested were booked as El- | mer Clayton, 36, 1500 block of D street northeast; Joseph T. Tilghman, | 40, of Baltimore, and Jeremiah Ross, | 30, colored. of the 200 block of Third | street southwest. | A total of 10 telephone trunk lines | and 140 connections were found in the switchboard set-up, which Lieut. | George M. Little, head of the vice squad and in charge of the raid, said | had been used to supply racing infor- | mation to cigar stores throughout the city. After the switchboard operators had been arrested, police intercepted many calls coming over the wires from *“customers,” who knew nothing of the raid. The detectives carried on con- versations in a matter-of-fact way as if nothing had happened. ‘The raid was made on & United Btates commissioner’s warrant for a man Little said was using a fictitious name. The man for whom the war- rant was issued was not in when police arrived. A well-known Washington | gambler has been operating the estab- lishment, Little said. Doors Broken Open. Police gained entrance by breaking through several barricaded doors. While this was in progress, the two men, who had been operating the switchboard, climbed through a win- dow and over a roof projection in an air shaft into another apartment. Police followed and found also the colored man, who, they said, had been placed as a “lookout.” The building had been surrounded by police to pre- vent any one escaping. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair tonight, minimum temperature about 27 de-| grees; tomorrow fair, slowly rising| temperature; moderate west and northwest winds. Maryland and Virginia—Fair to-, night; tomorrow fair, slowly rising' temperature in west portion. West Virginia—Fair tonight; to-| morrew increasing cloudiness, slowly rising temperature. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature.' Barometer. Degrees. Inches. 29.85 29.94 30.02 Yesterday— 30.05 30.13 Noon . 30.13 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 44, 1:45 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 36. Lowest, 30, 6:15 a.m. today. ago, 26. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 101, on June 29. Lowest, —812, on February 9. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 56 per cent, at 8 a.m. today. Lowest, 45 per cent, at noon today. | Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today. ‘Tomorrow. 2:10am. 3:12am. 8:48a.m. 9:45 a.m. 2:42p.m. 3:40 pm. 9:28 p.m. 10:29 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises. 7:19 Year Sets. Sun, today.... 4:46 Sun, tomorrow 7:19 4:47 Moon, today.. 12:36pm. 12:53am. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): 1934, Average. Record. 1.97 709 '82 322 418 2.27 384 2.87 2.88 . 521 Beptember. 17.45 October.. 0.75 November.. 358 8.69 December.. 1.32 7.56 Weather in Various Cities. 6.84 8.84 9.13 10.69 10.94 10.63 14.41 1745 857 "84 91 89 '89 '00 '86 ‘28 '34 '85 '89 01 £ 1 1 uTuey Statlons. 2591314 ** 1%9woreg quBiu_ 359 *** gupIa1sa. ‘weg o) weg Abilene. Tex Albany. N. Atlanta. G Cloudy Cloudy . Clear Clear Clear . Clear Denver. Colo. Detroit. Mich.. Indiananolis Jacksonville Kans, City. Los Angeles Louisville. K Miami. Fla. Minneapolis 0.18 64 . "3012 44 FOREIGN. (7 am.. Greenwich time today.) Station Temperature.Weather. London._Engl P (Noon. Greenwich time. today.) Horta (Faval), Asores... 62 Cloudy (Current observations.) 8t. Georges. Bermuda San Juan Py Havan Ctzblderw - Colon. Canal Zone . Cloudy Cloudy loudk, { ment home of the Budds, whose son | by delicate little Grace, with her big | blue eyes and brown hair, and marked View of the elaborate telephone equipment installed at 1712 Fourteenth street, where police conducted a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934 raid yesterday and arrested three men. —Star Staff Photo. B0 KDMAP IYSTERY SOLVE Slain Child’s Body Recov- ered After Six Years and Man Confesses. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 14.—The grave of Grace Budd disgorged evi- dence to clinch solution today of the kidnaping and killing of the child and incrimination of Albert H. Fish. Fish, after mocking her family by mail since the crime was committed | six years ago, was captured finally through the letters, which he himself sent; confessed and led officers to the | little girl's timberland burial place. | Butchered with a meat cleaver, thel body was found in three parts, the skull buried in the woods near a ram- shackle house in East Irvington, the | other bones by a road. | “The blood lust seized me,” the wiz- ened 65-year-old house painter said.| “But I'm glad it's over now. Helping the police find the body somehow makes me feel better.” | To the family, which had never known what had befallen their child, | then 10 years old, since she walked | hand-in-hand with a stranger into one | of America’s most mystifying kidnap- | ings, the swift solution came as a shock. Only Another Horror. “It was a horrible thing,” said her father, Albert Budd, “and this makes it worse.” The father and a brother of the girl, Edward—who originally had been marked for the murder—confronted Fish and identified him as the man | who disappeared with Grace. He was charged with homicide and kidnaping. Police pounced upon Fish in a mid- town post office substation yesterday while he waited for a remittance from a son in a C. C. C. camp. The last,of a series of cruel letters to the Budd family had been received only a few days ago, written on the statiopery of an employment agency, and tracing it back, police came to the catch. Spontaneously Fish launched into a confession, but he was cut short and taken to police headquarters, where he told a complete and co- herent story. Its text was not di- vulged, but Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine said it ran thus: Contemplating the killing in ad- vance, the man had bought a meat cleaver, saw and butcher knife, wrapped them in a tarpaulin and checked them at a newsstand. Boy Object of Plot. Then he went to call at the tene- Edward had advertised for a farm job. Fish represented himself as one Frank Howard, and said he had a farm near Farmingdale, a farm that existed only in his imagination. He intended to take the 18-year-old boy with him and kill him, but upon meeting the family was captivated her instead. He returned a few days later—it was June 3, 1928—said he was not going to his farm until the next dqy, and invited Grace to accompany him that day to a party he said his sister was giving for some children. Delightedly, the child pinned a rose on her white dress and went with him. After picking up his baleful bundle, Fish took her by train to the West- chester hideaway, which he knew to be unoccupied. He had lived in a nearby house eight years ago. Telling the child to play in the yard until the other guests arrived, he went into the house, laid out his tools and called her. She came to him. It was there that they found the body last night. REFORM GR(SUP TO MEET International Federation Session Opens Here Today. Delegates from various sections ar- rived here today to attend the annual meeting of the International Reform Federation at the organization’s head- quarters, 134 B street. President Robert Watson of Boston Confesses PAINTER ADMITS KIDNAP- ING BUDD GIRL. ALBERT HOWARD FISCH, 65, a painter living in New York, shown in New York police head- quarters yesterday after confessing, according to the police, to the kid- naping and killing of Grace Budd, 10, who disappeared from her home in New York on June 4, 1928. Po- lice say that Fisch led them to a spot in Westchester County, N. Y., where part of child’s remains were found. —A. P. Photo. PARK AIRPORT HIT BY WASHINGTONIANS | Resolution Recommends Erection of Memorial to Late Hugh Thomas Taggart. Opposition to the use of East Po- | tomac Park for airport purposes was | voiced in a resolution adopted at a meeting of the Washingtonians last night at the home of Mrs. Frederick ‘Yates, 2343 Ashmead place. In another resolution, sponsored by Mrs. Charles Wagner, the organiza- tion recommended the erection in East Potomac Park of a memorial to the late Hugh Thomas Taggart, who spent 14 years campaigning for devel- opment of the present park there. | Copies of the resolution will be sent | to the chairmen of the Senate and | House Districc Committees and to | the Commissioners. A committee composed of Mrs. Harry Steimer, chairman; John B. Dickman, jr.; A. J. Driscoll and Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter was appointed to consider plans for control of District recreational facilities. 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