For eleven days, while scores of G-men and thousands of neighbors scoured lower Florida in vain, the dead body of James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, lay in a palmetto thicket not a mile from his home in Princeton, Fla. Heavy rains and scorching sun left the body unrecognizable except for the white-&-rose pajamas Skeegie wore when someone took him from his crib (TIME, June 13). But not even a sharp-eyed buzzard found the remains, till late one night last week, a surgeon, a State prosecutor and twelve G-men led by Chief John...
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