The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-16
TWO GERMAN SERVANTS
SOUGHT BY POLICE FOR
LINDBERGFI KIDNAP QUIZ
Pair Vanished Suddenly on
Day After Baby Was
Stolen From Home.
BY BATES RANEY
United Press staff Correspondent

Search for the kidnapped Lindbergh
baby doubled back today on an old
trail-that of two German servants
who vanished the day after the
crime, two weeks ago today.
The servants, professedly man
and wife, went to work for Mrs. C.
L. Lightfoot of Franklin park, New
Brunswick, about a month before
the crime. They left suddenly,
after reporting they had news of ILL
ness abroad.
Next day, Mrs. Iightfoot reported,
she found a clliSel was missing, as
was crate used in packing bed
room furniture. The crate was Of
lumber similar to that used in the
kidnapers' ladder.
Clew Is Revived
The Lightfoots reported the in
cidents to state police shortly after
the kidnapping. The incident was
dismissed, along with hundreds of
other suggestions and clews, as i'm
material. Failure of every other
clew has resulted in the recheck,
which lends more importance to the
Franklin Park report.
Faith of the Lindberghs that the
baby will be returned safely to the
big home on Sourland mountain
persists, despite failure of all clews
so far reported.
Both are bearing up well, despite
strain of the long search. The
colonel spends most of his time near
his private telephone line. Anne
Morrow Lindbergh spends all the
time possible at his side. Her mother
helps her in the home Both fire.
quently walk together on the ter
race.
Would Avoid Publicity
Colonel Lindbergh wants to keer
out of the headlines, as he feels
that best will aid serach for his son
And he has let it be known thai
some reports, labeled false" may
interfere with the search. Among
such reports were these:
That the Lindberghs have re-
ceived authentic communication;
from the kidnapers.
That the underworld has sssur-
ance of the baby's safety.
That incinerators are being
searched for evidence.
That j. P. Morgan has furnished
quarter million dollars, taken tt
Detroit, to be paid as ransom.
Such information, the colonel lei
it be known, tends to mislead those
whose confidence Lindbergh be-
lieves he must win to recover his
baby.
Among incidents that have lee
investigators down the trail of the
two missing Lightfoot servants are
these:
The night before the servants
vanished, they asked for the Light.
foot car to make a trip to New
Brunswick, four miles distant. Tht
speedometer showed sixty miles
next day. The car was mud.
covered. Roads to New Brunswick
are paved.
Left Jobs Suddenly
The day after the crime, The
Lightfoots went to New York. Thai
afternoon, after their return, the
servants announced they just hac
received a cablegram from Europe
that relative was i'll and that they
would have to leave at once.
The chiSel and crate lumber were
missing; it was recalled that thu
butler had built an extension fol
the ladder used around the house
The word gut" German TO,
good, is reported to have been il
the ransom note left in the baby
nursery.
The couple had given conflicting
surnames, although claiming to b.
man and wife. Their reports on pas
employment and residence in thi
country were conflicting.
Other CIews Fail
Reports on other clews investi
gated, in brief, we're:
Charles Oliver, mysterious pris
oner questioned by the mysteriou
Morris RoSner, undercover man
was relieved of suspicion, alonI
with two others questioned On
story ne had told of a six-month
old kidnapping plot. Others releases
were Daniel Murnane, Bayonne
N. j., and Mrs. Catherine Duchek
boarding house proprietor.
William Gleason, former fellow
prisoner of Oliver, probably will b.
released later. Geason and Olive,
charged each other with suggesting
kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby
Neither could have participated
prison records showed.
John ZIMMERMAN, in Pascal
county jail, had claimed he over
heard three men plotting. That in
vestigation extended from Yonker
to Easton, Pa, to Newark. No evi
dence was found.