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...eleven days, while scores of G-men and thousands of neighbors scoured lower Florida in vain, the dead body of James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, lay in a palmetto thicket not a mile from his home in Princeton, Fla. Heavy rains and scorching sun left the body unrecognizable except for the white-&-rose pajamas Skeegie wore when someone took him from his crib (TIME, June 13). But not even a sharp-eyed buzzard found the remains, till late one night last week, a surgeon, a State prosecutor and twelve G-men led by Chief John Edgar Hoover came...
...suspicious of him when: 1) he "found" one of the ransom notes under Brother Cash's store door, 2) he remarked how easy it would be to break into their house. They told Sheriff Coleman, who trapped McCall in a fake alibi and turned him over to the G-men. Not for a week did he "crack" under their questioning...
McCall also helped the G-men find the ransom money. All but $5 of the $10,000 was recovered. McCall admitted taking that, but not the child...
...cold three-day rain, Chief Hoover's men at Miami set to work. He himself arrived by chartered plane and 14 more G-men flew in after him. Divers groped in old limestone quarries and pools; volunteer speedboats toured the keys; Seminoles and white trappers searched in the poisonous Everglades; planes scoured the wide, wild tip of the peninsula-all looking for a child they no longer expected to find alive...
...signed newspaper piece last week, Chief Hoover wrote: "George ('Machine Gun') Kelly is supposed to have coined the name G-men while Special Agents of the FBI were pursuing him for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel of Oklahoma City. Kelly and his wife had fled from town to town until Kelly, who was a blowhard and a coward, got panicky...