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Show Week of Searching Fails to Find Babe .,- .- :. , NKW TORK, Aug. If (By U. PJ Today and of tha first week alnce tha kidnaping of three months old Lillian McKensle found the myctery apparently aa far from solution so-lution as ever. Police admitted they did not have a alngle hopeful clue and had aaalgned -women deteotlvea under Mra Mary Hamilton, known aa the cleverest woman criminal hunter in New York, to make a search ot all "baby farms' In an effort to locate tha missing 'child. It seamed that every possible theory had been worked ta the limit, lim-it, but police and amateur Inveetl-gatora Inveetl-gatora did not lag la their efforta and were spurred by additional rewards re-wards offered by tha newspapers for the return of the child to Its parents. Among police the ease was beginning begin-ning to ba oalled "the great kidnaping kidnap-ing mystery," for It wsa polntsd out that practloaily the whole wwun-try wwun-try has been looking frr the Infant, which ehould ba recognld easily "since It erica almoet continually' for a week and net one tellable olue haa been found. Police believed tha ransom lettera let-tera received by the parents wars tha work of cranks and paid little attention to them. They also failed to get satisfactory clues from scores of is tiers received from all over the country from persons who offered Information they thought might boar on tha caaa. - ' NEW TORK. Aug. U. The aggregate ag-gregate reward offered for the return re-turn ot Baby Lillian McKensle, kidnaped a week ago. mounted to 19000 today, one newspaper adding taooa to tha ftftoa already offered two o there. The police admitted that while hundreda of tips hsd poured In from all porta of thla and adjacent cities, they were without a alngle clue to the whereabouts of the daughter of Mr. and Mra. Peter McKenkle, who waa enatched from her gocart while her mother was shopping. |