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...MCCLELLAND GALVESTON, TEXAS...
After five years as a New Jersey schoolteacher, Edward M. Hough, 28, took one more look at his five-day job-at $74 a week-and decided that he was through. He liked his job teaching fifth grade at Trenton's McClelland School, and, with a master's degree in education behind him, he had long planned to make teaching his career. But he also had to support his wife and three-year-old twins, and to make ends meet, he was on a treadmill of odd jobs outside of school hours: bill collecting, refereeing occasional basketball...
Reunion & Doubt. Last week Reporter Wright got a final piece of evidence. A fingerprint expert said that Mrs. McClelland's finger and palm prints showed some of the same characteristics as the Moroney family's. The News flew Mrs. McClelland to Chicago for a reunion with her "mother," carefully hidden from rival newsmen. At a tearful meeting in the News's executive offices, Mrs. Moroney whispered hoarsely, "You look like her. Mary, it's been so long." Said Mary: "Somehow it feels right...
...could they do when we had the case all sewed up?" Actually, the case seemed far from sewed up. Chicago police records showed that as a baby Mary Agnes Moroney had an operation for a ruptured navel, and doctors said it would probably have left a lifetime scar. Mrs. McClelland has no such scar. The Richmond (Calif.) Independent printed a story saying that Mary's foster mother got her from a foundling home 2y½ears before the kidnaping, though she could produce no records to prove it. A California doctor thought he remembered delivering the child in Martinez...
Nevertheless, Mrs. McClelland was staying in Chicago to get better acquainted with the Moroneys. Said Mrs. Moroney: "I would like to believe that this girl is Mary Agnes, but I just don't know." Added Mary: "I probably will never know for sure...