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Reporter Wright went to work in earnest. She interviewed retired policemen who had worked on the case, collected specimens for blood analysis from everyone in the Moroney family and from Mrs. McClelland. Doctors reported that, on the basis of the blood tests. Mrs. McClelland "could be" the missing child. Anthropologists compared physical characteristics, found striking similarities. Reporter Wright had dental casts made...
...Moroney family and of Mrs. McClelland and sent them to an anthropologist who studies "genetic factors in teeth." After examining the Moroneys' dental impressions, he easily picked Mrs. McClelland's from a group of 34 unmarked casts...
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...
Soundly beaten on the kind of story that Chicago dearly loves, the rival Tribune did its best to pooh-pooh it, even quoted Mrs. Moroney as saying: "My mother's instinct tells me that this is not my daughter." Mrs. Moroney flatly denied ever saying that. "I don't blame the Trib for making it up," said Reporter Wright. "What else 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...
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...