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UUlg,wardhavetold jrnith ielingBabcock Crime.ther, at a r hisThomas Smith lived Near w®cthat[ himid to e spring, iome.heory fe redandhadjmhliwoumhad il the keep-ORS-(Atawuedghenylquirywhichatives ester n whichon of trag-epart-; Col.dvisor : andi-(/p:kancic■would;h. Hes on ames■O—'/P)broke l larged but e and , thre-WheWasLiItiBUFFALO, N. Y.. March 30— /P— Police Commissioner J mes W. Higgins announced today that an 18-year-old Buffalo youth had confessed that he killed Mary Ellen Babcock, 18,whose knifed body was found in a field Feb. 6.District Attorney Walter Newcomb, to whose office the youth was taken, .said he was booked as Tnomas Smith, who live., several blocks from theSouth Buffalo field in which theBabcock girl’s body was found.Newcomb said that the young prisoner had made a “complete statement admitting tfte killing.”He said no charge hac. been placed against him, however.Newcomb said he could not divulge other derails of the statement whichCf agric ru h tier matt to na offeiIved fto^nplancharv_^ » w -- - w w — — —-he, too, ,said the prisoner had made.Commissioner Higgins jaid th .t theff A A ■ T + fe ^2; o ancik*saunl **ty cmoLliUi.widearrest of smith grew out of police investigation of the injury of a young girl here Sunday night. At that time, he said, physicians removed an ice pick blade from the ba k of ^ourteen-year-old Frances Fitzgerald, who also lives in a South Buffalo neighborhood.rolice refused to accept the first report that the girl had slipped on ice and had fallen on the pick, Higginssaid. , , ,Smith wa, taken into custo,iy, and made a statement, Higgins said, about the injury to Frances Fitzgerald,^aud the Babcock statement followed.Mary Ellen Babcock, attractive daughter of a Buffalo railroad employe and his wife, disappeared the night of Feb. 5. She left home after supper, met a girl friend and attended a wake.Then the two girls parted.On the following forenoon MaryFUen’s bruised tody was found in a dit h in a field several blocks from her home. Her clothing was torn anddisarranged.Near the body police found a jack-knife, open and staine i The girl’s fingernails contained fragments ofcloth and hair.In a drastic house-to-house search. police questioned thousands of Southi Buffalo men. Some were given lie-..... — released.01Siin «ledcservithenayl«utMviswne-jfwlOw.alleqc.£ieuBmucomscru is t j stoo j assi cessteni'Hthe!tiometfe’ttheierm-im—over » thir-ChosenTURTLEIJi'M30——c
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Somerset Daily American
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Mar 30, 1937
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