Seward daily gateway., 1932-03-03
K|DNAPPERS ASK v s5O,OOO RANSOM
 L|NDBERCH'S S0N
FIRST DEFINITE CLUE HAS BEEN
 FOUND; THREE MEN ARE SUSPECTED

TRENTON, N. J., Mar. 3.-Ine whole world is seemingly engross- ed in the horrible Kidnapping ot one of the worlds most famous babies. the 2O-month- old blue-eyed, curlv-headed Charles Augustus, son of Col. and Anne Lindbergh.
 Governmental agencies, detective agencies and other agencies, which can possibly be of any assistance in solving the Kidnapping case, have been placed at the disposal of the authorities who are handling the case.
 Much mystery surrounds the kld- mapping note which was left in the bed from which the baby was snatched, but it is said that the contents specified that the abduct- brs wanted S5O,0OO for the return of the child. The note did not, It is said, specify any rendezvous for the transfer of the money to the abductors.
 Colonel Lindbergh, when inter togated by newspaper men regard ing this note, told them that they must not ask him anything regard ing the note. Lindy's attitude was courteous and because of his re- tlSal to talk about the note, 1t IS taken that death, in no uncertain terms, is threatened should the notes contents be divulged.
 Lindbergh said last night that he believed that the baby would be Returned safe within 12 or 15 hours or before dawn today. He ordered the road to his home cleared so that it would be easier for the kid nappers to approach the house should they desire to communicate with Lindbergh himself or to re- turn the baby
 The Lindbergh family is facing the situation with admirable cour- age Lindbergh was exhausted from a frantic search throughout the nearby woods and said that he had received about an hour of sleep until last evening. Mrs. Lindbergh continued on with her household duties.
 Early clues. which developed as 8 result of the investigation-the jmprovised ladder, the note left in the child's nursery, the footprints and the snudges on the ladder, all seemed very futile and disappoint- +og to the investigators.
 Later developments gave addi- tional promise tha t these first clues would be of some import ance, officials disclosed early today
 The most tangible clue discovered so far as to the identity of the ab- auctors was contained in a report 5y Chief Thomas Wolf, of the Jer- Sey City department, who reported that one of his Subordinates, h. Spector Charles Wilson, had dis covered a waitress named Keating iii restaurant at Pennington, eight miles from the Lindbergh estate, who identified pictures i'll a rogues gallery as being those of three men who had stopped at the restaurant four days before the ab- duction. While they ate a light hlnch, they had asked directions as to the Lindbergh home. They came back again Monday night, about three hours before the time set for the Kidnapping.
 A second tangible clue was the discovery of an abandoned car, 1927 model, near Greenwich, Conn in the back seat of this car was found a piece of pink baby ribbon, about a foot and one-half long. A receipt for $270 from a lumber company was also found as well as a piece of paper with six kinds of writing on it and some kind of a cipher. The receipt for the lum- Der company may be receipt for the lumber which went into the making of the improvised ladder. The writing on the piece of paper is believed to be the paper on which the kidnappers practiced various styles of writing before they wrote the note which was found in the crib.
 A postal clerk in a Newark post office spotted a post card addressed