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SUNDAY NEWS JULY' 18, 1965 By WILLIAM TRAVERS AND HENRY LEE As their mother knelt and sobbed her estranged husband beside her a Mass of the Angels was offered yesterday in a Bronx church for slain 4-year-old Alice Crimmins, and prayers were offered for the safe recovery of Alice's 5-year-old brother, Edmund. A few minutes earlier Mrs. Crimmins had collapsed into her husband Edmund's arms while she was being led into the church. The two blond children vanished mysteriously early Wednesday morning from the Queens ground-floor gar- si I (NEWS foto by Seymour Wally) Alice Crimmins' coffin is carried into church. Following (at right) are the parents.

Face IHiearai Cp and 3 'n Narcotics ShaEcedown Suspended Patrolman Richard N. Lang, 26, was held in $2,000 bail yesterday in Criminal Court for hearing Wednesday on charges growing out of asserted extortion of money from three persons under threat of arrest for narcotics possession. Lang, who is assigned to th Fifth St. station, and three sus pected confederates were named Foto of Alice and Edmund Crimmins at play was taken two week ago by a playmate, 7-year-old Joey O'Haire. den apartment of their mother, attractive redhaired Mrs.

Copter Crash Kills 2 Woodward, July 17 (UPI) A small helicopter crashed on Main Street In front of the county courthouse today, killing two men. Witnesses said the motor stopped while the craft was flying at a low altitude over the business district. who never showed. But, the cops added, they spotted Meola tailing Florio and Guagenti, so they bagged him. In turn, he reportedly implicated Lang, who'd had a good record since joining the department in 1962.

Gibson denied there'd been any narcotics or drug equipment in his studio in the first place. Alice Crimmins, 26. The body of the girl, who had been suffocated, was found the same in complaints signed by Bob Gibson of 185 W. Houston a folk musician playing at the Cafe Au Go Go, 150 Bleecker and by George L. Peters, of the commissioner's confidential inves- ttfrnttnn unit -mr Two Killed in Staten Island Smashup afternoon in underbrush about half a mile away from the Crimmins' apartment at 150-22 72d Drive, Kew Gardens Hills.

Despite an intensive four-day search, police have found no clues to Edmund's whereabouts, and fear that he is dead. Although police have interviewed "hundreds of persons," there have been "no new developments in the case," Deputy Chief Inspector John Greene, Queens detective commander, reported late yesterday. Search Continues "The search is continuing for the boy, and we are following up all possible leads," he said. Two Homicide Squad detectives were sent to the Bronx, where Alice's funeral was held. Her father, Edmund, 29, was born and brought up in the Throgs Neck section and his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edmund Crimmins, still live there. In a white dress, a white prayer book in her hand, the child lay in a white coffin trimmed with gold at the Walter B. Cooke funeral home. 2135 Westchester Bronx.

From there, the hearse traveled a short distance to St. Raymond's Church, Castle Hill and E. Tre-mont Aves. With the coffin were ten floral pieces. In Second Car Alice's parents followed in the first car, accompanied by parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edmund Crimmins Sr. Also in the car were Crimmins' two bothers, Francis and Thomas, the latter a member of a religious order, and John Nowak of New Bruns- (ContinutJ on pais of, 1) Patrolman Theotherthree Ian held in bail of $6,000 each for hearings on Wednesday, are Emil Meola, 32, of 110 Christopher and two Bronx men, Michael Guagenti, 24, of 1137 Feeley and Philip Florio, 22, of 3442 Wilson Ave. 3 Accused of Shakedown According to the charges Lang and two other men shook down three friends of Gibson in his rehearsal studio at 428 Hudson St. after claiming to find heroin, a syringe and a needle there.

The victims assertedly paid $170 and promised to pay the rest of $800 that was demanded. Later, according to police, Gibson got a phone call demanding $2,500. Working with them, the cops said he passed over $800 to Florio and Guagenti, who were then arrested. The cops said they shadowed them as the pair were allowed to seek contact with a "pickup man" Water Supply Dwindling The city's water shortage remained critical yesterday, with 231.6 billion gallons in the reservoirs. The supply on hand represented 48.6 of capacity, as compared with 79.7 on the same date last year.

A lei (NEWS foto by Jim Romano) Fireman pries open door as William Mlymarick, 19, awaits removal from car that hit pole at Clove Road and Mosel Ave. in Grasmere, Staten Island, early yesterday morning. Two Linden, NJ. youths were killed and two others injured. Dead are the driver, John Nedelsky, 20, and Dennis Keane, 19.

The other injured youth is Michael Tyerech, 19..