MOST FIENDISH CRIME
INCINERATED BODY OF CHILD. , YOUTH’S BLOOD-SOAKED CLOTHES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 7 p.m. New York, Oct. 14. The incinerated body .of Nancy Cos- :■ tigan, the five-year-old daughter of the sales manager of an English silver firm, was found to-night in the basement furnace of one of the most exclusive apartment buildings of Mount Vernon, a suburb of New York. The child was 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 have arrested Lawrence 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 were being lifted into the ambulance, Stone, whose clothes were blood-soaked, climbed in, claiming he had been injured in the same accident, but this was disproved and his arrest followed. Witnesses claim they saw Stone talking to the child earlier.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 7
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