Show K Child Attacked and d Slain lain By Fiend BODY OF OLD YEAR MARIAN McLEAN FOUND IN IiO HOUSE E NEAR NEAR- HER HOME MOB HOWLS FOR VENGEANCE VENG ANGE By United Press Pres CINCINNATI 0 Dec 2 The Thc The Marian Marlan McLean 1 hatred haired year 6 6 year who vho was abducted attacked and slain and slain w was s found today The child lay f face face- ce up in In- Ina a musty cellar ellar cellara a a- a block from the cottage where she and her mother four days ago ago were making exciting little plans for Christmas The childs child's torso had been mutilated She had been choked Marian Marlan was the victim of a mental defective there can be no doubt about that said Coroner M. M Scott Kearns who sped to the scene with a squadron of p police lice cars cars sent seni to control control control con- con a fury driven en throng g milling ng through tt the neighborhood For four days since her disappearance disappear ance with a a. a tall dark stranger tranger late Thursday officers pressed the th search through the city and surrounding surround ing lag territory Then today Charles Bischoff Bi went wen to his s cellar to chop kindling wood He lived on the second f floor of t tin the e house DISCOVERS BODY Lying on boards dimly revealed ir is inthe the light of ot a candle Bischoff Bischof held was Marians Marian's body Her tiny blue tam tarn oshanter had fallen aside Iron from her tousled hair hair- Her eyes were swollen The cheeks checks were stained with tears I IDeath Death had had occurred I within the last 24 hours said th tin thel coron coroner r. r I After a 1 general hospital autopsy it ii was announced that Marian Marlan died o oi of bleeding and shock the result of ar as assault County commissioners offered a r reward reward re re- ward of 1000 for arrest and conviction conviction con of f the person responsible fo tor the abduction abdu tion and murder of Maria Mariar McLean Other rewards totaling 1200 already already already al al- ready had been offered Mrs Mildred McLean weakened and dazed by the days of uncertainty lost herself in hysteria when the news new reached her Police opened a alane lane in the throng throngs of driven curiosity persons parsons and e s s. s cor ted Mrs McLean from the cottage where Christmas Christmas- presents were hid hie hid hid- d den n. n They are gifts she cannot bestow She lived alone with Marian The Th father Joseph Josepn McL McLean an left his wl two years ago an and is in Phoenix Ariz Aria Ari GIVE ONLY CLUE The mother was taken t to police headquarters where her grief might and she could be cared for by matrons and relatives Three men men- gave police their only clue to the slayer They had seena seea seen see seena a a- aman aman man enter the cellar where th the body was found They were Harry Cox Allen Clark Clar and Albert Ove The man nina stood on on a corn comer ha haan halt half haltan an hour they said He was nervous obviously and k kept pt eating apples apple from froma a sack asack he had Finally he walked into the house hous at East Twelfth street It was was in this house Marians Marian's body was found The man was about 30 y years ars old He was ather tall and imd was d dark rk complexion com com- d. d We did not see him leave although we stood conversing nearby for or half an hour Three other small girls have met met- a like fate ike fate here In inthe the past dozen years Two of them never never were found The Th body ody of the third was tossed on th the porch of her home None of the abductors abductors ab ab- ab- ab was apprehended The house where Marians Marian's bod body was wa found is about from the place where she was last seen seen alive by Julus Ju Ju- Ju lus lius S 17 a neighbor boy LAUGHED AT DOG said Marian watched him washing his motor car and laughed at the antics of a dog which put its dirty paws on the bright fenders after he le shi shined ed themA them A little while afterward said I I saw her with a tall man going down an alley altey He was a dark man man- foreign looking statement was borne ou out by y reports report of children who were Ma Marians ians ian's friends Several of them th m told of f being offered sweets and money by y a stranger who the they said followed hem them when when- they they- left their h homes mes SEARCH TWO STATES Police searched through all nil southern south south- ern rn Ohio and northern Kentucky Gypsy c camps ps were were Visited A desert desert- Pace ue Eight KIDNAPER KILLS YEAR OLD GIRL GIRt Continued From Prom Pare Pan One cd ed subway here was explored with flashlights Houses Homes were ransacked No lio word and no clue clus was found The Cincinnati Enquirer took up the cry that the child chUd must be found It was the Christmas season and the despair in the McLean cottage was throwing a blight bUcht over the homes of the entire city where children excitedly ex ex excitedly cx- cx awaited the big night The Enquirer offered 1000 re reo re- re ward Smaller rewards offered totaled totaled totaled to to- several hundred dollars Reports leads rumors advice came cameto cameto cameto to police in increasing volume All proved useless I ISo So agitated was the neighborhood that when a second hand dealer visited visited vis vis- vis one Of t the homes yesterday to buy odds and ends and asked the child who answered the door if it she was there alone her mother screamed frantically A crowd gathered gather d. d and the dealer bewildered and in innocence nce of the cause of the scene was rescued by byl police from probable violence |