The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-22
MYSTERY AID is
ONLY new hint
IN Indy HUNT
New York PERSONAL Might
Relate to Kidnapped Baby,
but Probably Not.
BY BATES RANEY
United Press stan Correspondent

HOPEWELL. N. j., March "a
classified personal" ad published in
New York today limited that Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh has received
evidence from kidnapers Of his baby,
but all other sources indicated the
twenty-two-day search had been
futile.
Authorities declined to comment
on the ad, apparently one Of a series
signed "Jafsie," which have APP
peared in the New York American
and Bronx Home News
The ad read
Thanks. That little package you
sent was Immediately delivered and
accepted as real article. See my
position. Over fifty years in bust
ness, and can pay without seeing
goods? Common sense makes me
trust you. Please understand my
position. Jafsie."
This might be interpreted to mean
the kidnapers had sent some article
TO Lindbergh, but were being in
formed he was unwilling to pay the
ransom until he saw the goods"
and was convinced he would receive
his own child back.
Sisters Pay Visit to Anne
A cold sleet enveloped the desc
late Sourland mountain area today,
making the Lindbergh home seem
even more isolated than ever. A
raw wind howled outside, so Mrs.
Lindbergh spent most of her time
at the fireside.
Monday She was visited by her
sisters, the Misses Elizabeth and
Constance Morrow. Constance is at
home with her mother, Mrs. Dwight
w. Morrow at Englewood, for the
Easter holidays. She is a student at
Smith college, Northampton, Mass.
All clews developed yesterday we're
found valueless, but investigation of
one was not yet complete. It is
the message found on a carrier
pigeon in Connecticut, and decided
by a local bootlegger' as reading:
All lines unsafe. Kid in yacht.
Making no port. Well-trained care
outside United States jurisdiction.
Return bird"
1t was learned the pigeon carried
a 1880 registration band, and there
fore was being used improperly.
Police Agencies Quarrel
Another carrier pigeon, with a
cryptic message signed Red" was
found at East Stroudsburg, Pa, but
proved to be a hoax thought up by
boys.
A quarrel between various police
agencies working on the kidnapping
was indicated Monday when Elmer
Hand, chief detective of Hunterdon
county, announced the case would
be presented to the grand jury
April II.
Hand criticised the stupid bar
rier' placed about the Lindbergh
home by state police, and said the
baby would not be returned until it
had been eliminated.
But Acknowledgement William A.
Stevens, who has charge of the case,
contradicted hands statement re-
garding the grand jury.
The questioning of Henry (Red
Johnson, friend of Miss Betty Cow.
the kidnapped baby's nurse, by Frank
Brex of Newark deputy police chief.
was regarded of minor significance.
Deny Help from Chicago
If the Secret Six, a Chicago Or
ganization of business and profess
slonal men to fight crime, is help
ing in the Linobergh case, police
oflclals here refuse to admit it.
1t was reported that H. Wallace
Caldwell, former president of the
Chicago board OF education, con-
ferred with Colonel Lindbergh and
his personal representatives at the
Llndbergh home Monday.
Caldwell, the report said, was rep
resenting the Secret Six"
Colonel II. Norman Schwartz
kopf, in command of New Jersey
state police, when asked about the
report, said:
Police know NOTHING ahout II