The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-14
Indy IS AT
BLANK WALL
IN BABY HUNT
Night Trip on Mysterious
Errand by Colonel Fails
to Bring Results.
NEW RANSOM DEMAND
Norfolk Trio Say Their
Contact Asks Payment
in Advance.
BY Fl. ALLEN SMITH
United Press STAFF Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 14.-Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh was as far
away today from solution OF his
babys kidnapping as on March ],
when the child was stolen from its
Hopewell On. j. nursery.
A night trip on a mysterious err
rand brought the colonel nothing
tangible.
1t was learned reliably that the
colonel and his associates are at
blank wall, their clews exhausted,
but their hopes still keen.
Lindbergh is striving to rebuild
contacts to restore the child, now
that his first effort through pay
ment of $4,000 ransom has come
to an unhappy conclusion.
Colonel Lndbergh spent the bet
ter part of the night on trails said
to have brought him to New York
City, but his trip was unproductive.
Demand Ransom at Norfolk
Meantime, from Cape Cod came
word of mysterious airplane
scouting that region, perhaps on the
trail of a clew 10 the kidnapers, or
answering a new tip that the child
might be aboard a boat in that vi
cinity.
From Norfolk, Va, came advices
that the contact" established by a
trio of Norfolk citizens was de-
handing payment in advance be-
fore proceeding to fulfill his claim
that he could have the baby pro-
duced.
Colonel Lindbergh hitherto has
been skeptical of this offer, fearing
the contact" merely was "chiSel-
Ter" seeking to profit by the Lind
bergh tragedy.
In New York City, secret service
agents we're striving to run down a
slender clew offered by discovery
that one of the ransom bills-a $40
note-had been deposited in a Bronx
bank soon after DR.. Condor (Jafsie)
paid over the $4,000 to the kid
napers.
"ShrewIsest Gang in u. S."
1t was an almost hopeless task,
however, for hundred Of depositors
had dealt with the bank in question
on the days after the payment, and
there seemed little likelihood that
the person who passed the $40 bill
could be found
Meantime, there were reports that
Condor had received new commune
cations from the negotiators, but
these reports lacked verification.
DR.. Condor left his home this
morning and for more than an hour
spoke with reporters in a neighbor-
hood drug store. He would not dis
cuss the kidaping case other than to
say:
I'VE are dealing with the shrewd-
est gang ever organized in the
United States.
New Jafsie Note Printed
In Halifax, police searched for
Harry Fleischer, of the Detroit Pur-
pie gang, wanted for questioning by
New Jersey state police IN connec-
ton with the kidnapping.
In Europe, investigation into the
kidnapping was proceeding in Lon
don, Glasgow, Birmingham, Eng
land, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin,
Hamburg, Villefranche, Rotterdam
ard The Hague
Major Charles Schoeffel of the
New Jersey state police was in vi
emma in connection with the case.
While the old "Jafsie" message,
saying what is wrong? Have you
crossed me? Please, better direc-
tons" continued to appear in
New York paper, a new message
was inserted in the Washington ID.
c. Times. It read:
"A. T. O.-Yes. Well work with
you alone; tell no one about it,
Jaffie."