New York Times, March 9, 1946, p.14

Frank Pape, 17 years old, of 815 Eagle Avenue, the Bronx, indicted for first-degree murder in the death of William Drach, 4, in October. 1944, was freed yesterday in Bronx County Court, having been declared sane after a year’s treatment by psychiatrists. The youth was adjudged insane at the time of the murder. Pape, who strangled the Drach boy while they were playing, was placed under the supervision of two Lutheran ministers, the Rev. Otto Plagemann of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, 156th Street and St. Ann’s Avenue, and the Rev. Henry Schumann of Bethany Lutheran Church, 583 East 163d Street, both the Bronx. The ministers told the court they felt confident they could control the youth.
New York Times, March 9, 1946, p.14

New York Sun, March 8, 1946, p.12

After a year in a hospital for the insane, 17-year-old Frank Pape, under indictment for murder in the first degree in the strangling of a 4-year-old child, walked out of the Bronx Court today and broke into a run as he spied his parents and younger brother. He embraced them one by one, clung to them, but not a word was spoken.
New York Sun, March 8, 1946, p.12

New York Sun, February 14, 1946, p.15

New York Times, February 9, 1946, p.1

Frank Pape, 17 years old, of 815 Eagle Avenue, the Bronx, who was committed to Pilgrim State Hospital as insane after the “thrill slaying” of a 4-year-old boy, has been declared sane after treatment and will stand trial for the killing, Sylvester Ryan, Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Bronx, said yesterday.

Pape admitted that on Oct. 29, 1944, he strangled John Drach at 825 Eagle Avenue by trussing him up with a clothesline then covering the body with a burlap bag. The boy was the son of the superintendent of 825 Eagle Avenue. Pape said at the time he was re-enacting a scene from a motion picture that he had seen, and that he got a thrill out of doing it.
New York Times, February 9, 1946, p.1

New York Times, February 3, 1944, p.13

After a two-day sanity hearing in Bronx County Court, Frank Pape, 16 years old, who strangled William Drach, 4, last October in the basement of 825 Eagle Avenue, the Bronx, was committed yesterday to the Pilgrim State Hospital by Judge Harry Stackell. The boy’s attorneys, who at first had opposed the commitment, agreed that he needed mental care. The boy was found insane by the psychiatry staff of Bellevue Hospital. Dr. Morris Herman, assistant director of psychiatry at Bellevue, testified yesterday that Pape was abnormal and that he displayed “early manifestations of dementia praecox.” Judge Stackell said this convinced him Pape should be sent to a State hospital. The boy, according to psychiatrists, showed no remorse over the killing during the many tests they subjected him to.
New York Times, February 3, 1944, p.13

PM, February 2, p.12