“…was committed yesterday…”

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