Editing Albert Fish (section)

==Capture==
The letter was delivered in an envelope that had a small [[hexagon]]al emblem with the letters "N.Y.P.C.B.A." representing "New York Private Chauffeur's Benevolent Association". A janitor at the company told the police he had taken some of the [[stationery]] home but left it at his rooming house at 200 East [[52nd Street (Manhattan)|52nd Street]] when he moved out. The landlady of the rooming house said that Fish checked out of that room a few days earlier. She said that Fish's son sent him money and he asked her to hold his next check for him. Detective William King, the chief investigator for the case, waited outside the room until Fish returned. He agreed to go to headquarters for questioning, then brandished a razor blade. King disarmed Fish and took him to police headquarters. Fish made no attempt to deny the murder of Grace Budd, saying that he meant to go to the house to kill her brother Edward.<ref group=notes>Fish supplied the following biographical information in captivity: "I was born May 19, 1870, in Washington, D.C. We lived on B Street, N.E., between Second and Third. My father was Captain Randall Fish, 32nd-degree [[Freemasonry|Mason]], and he is buried in the Grand Lodge grounds of the Congressional Cemetery. He was a [[Potomac River]] boat captain, running from D.C. to [[Marshall Hall, Maryland|Marshall Hall]], [[Virginia]] {{sic}}. My father dropped dead October 15, 1875, in the old [[Washington Union Station|Pennsylvania Station]] where [[James A. Garfield|President Garfield]] was shot, and I was placed in St. John's Orphanage in Washington. I was there till I was nearly nine, and that's where I got started wrong. We were unmercifully whipped. I saw boys doing many things they should not have done. I sang in the choir from 1880 to 1884, [[soprano]], at St. John's. I came to New York. I was a good painter, interiors or anything. I got an apartment and brought my mother up from Washington. We lived at 76 West 101st Street, and that's where I met my wife. After our six children were born, she left me. She took all the furniture and didn't even leave a mattress for the children to sleep on. I'm still worried about my children, you'd think they'd come to visit their old dad in jail, but they haven't."</ref> Fish said it "never even entered [his] head" to rape the girl,<ref name="SerialKillers">{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Colin |last2=Seaman |first2=Donald |title=The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence |date=2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9780753547229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTtOwm5BJK4C&q=the+serial+killers |language=en |page= 70}}</ref> but he later claimed to his attorney that, while kneeling on Grace's chest and strangling her, he did have two involuntary [[ejaculation]]s. This information was used at trial to make the claim the kidnapping was sexually motivated, thus avoiding any mention of cannibalism.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Colin |last2=Seaman |first2=Donald |title=The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence |date=2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9780753547229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTtOwm5BJK4C&q=the+serial+killers |language=en |page= 69}}</ref>