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Show Friends of the Coucjhlins to Conduct Nationwide Search for Kidnaped Babe . NORRISTOWN. Pa.. Juno 18. A IH fund which, It is hoped, will approxi-mate approxi-mate 550,000 is being raised by friends of Mr. and Mrs. George II. Coughlln. to conduct a nationwide search for their 13 months old baby, who was jH stolen on June 2 and for the appro-- IB hcnslon of the kidnapers. Thrco Norrlstown men announced they would contribute $ 1,000 each to the fund and a number of -others sub-scribed sub-scribed smaller amounts. It is planned to offer a large revrard for the return of the child and to employ a big force of detectives In an effort to run down 'the abductors. I Local authorities, private detectives and state police renewed their search today for the missing child. They al-!ao al-!ao were exerting overy offort (,o run 1 1 down the writer of several letters signed "The Crank." -who swindled Mr I Coughlln out of $12,000 byclalmlng ho had little, Blnkelev and that he would bo returned upon payment of that sum. Charles A. Ellor. chief of the Nor- IH ristown police, said tonight he wa positive "the crank" had nothing i whatever to do with the kidnaping. |