“…declared sane…”

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