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NEWSPAPER:  The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York - Wed. May 27, 1925
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                           GOES TO QUESTION
                            KIRBY IN KILLING
                             OF BROOKLYN GIRL
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                     Police Lieutenant Acts in Be-
                      half of Relatives of Lillian
                      White, Slain in 1922.
                      
                      Governor Smith may be asked to
                   appoint a Special Attorney General
                   to supplant District Attorney Morton
                   Lexow of Rockland County in the
                   investigation of the murder of Lil-
                   lian White of Brooklyn, inmate of
                   the Letchworth Village Home for
                   Feeble Minded, whose skeleton was
                   found on top of Cheesecock Moun-
                   tain in April, 1922.
                      This was the announcement made
                   today by Julius Hochfelder, attorney
                   for the family of the murdered girl,
                   who yesterday wired to police at
                   Augusta, Me., asking them to hold
                   Harry A. Kirby, in jail there charged
                   with the murder of Miss Aida Hay-
                   ward at Winthrop, Me.
                      "I have written to District At-
                   torney Lexow, calling his attention
                   to evidence linking up Kirby with
                   the murder of the Brooklyn girl."
                   said Hochfelder today, "and asking
                   him to lay the case before the Grand
                   Jury.
                            Goes to Question Kirby.
                     "Lt. Grant Williams, formerly of
                   the Missing Persons Bureau, who
                   reconstructed the face of the mur-
                   dered girl from the skull found on
                   the mountain top three years ago
                   so that it was identified by her fam-
                   ily, has gone to Augusta to question
                   Kirby.  I expect to hear from him
                   by telegraph any moment.  I will
                   forward the additional information
                   we hope to obtain to Rockland
                   County, and if District Attorney
                   Lexow still declines to take any ac-
                   tion we will ask Governor Smith to
                   look into the case."
                      Hochfelder declared that there
                   was no doubt that Kirby was the
                   James J. Crawford who worked in
                   the Letchworth Home before the
                   murder of Miss White and who had
                   been constantly in her company be-
                   fore her dissappearance from the in-
                   stitution.
                        Escaped From Jail in Queens
                      Shortly after the disappearance
                   of the girl, and before the discovery
                   of her weather-beaten bones on the
                   hilltop, Crawford disappeared, de-
                   serting his wife whom he had mar-
                   ried at Nyack earlier in the year.
                      Kirby, in Augusta jail, is charged
                   with the murder of Miss Hayward
                   and the attempted murder of her
                   aunt when he abducted the girl and
                   set fire to the cottage in which she
                   lived.  The body of the girl was
                   found in a cottage which Kirby had
                   rented about a mile and half from
                   the Hayward cottage.
                      Under examination by police there
                   he has admitted that as James J.
                   Crawford he was married in Nyack.
                   He said that he escaped from the
                   Queens County Jail where he was
                   serving a sentence for grand lar-
                   ceny.
                   
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