The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-18
POLICE ANNOUNCE
GIRL COOPERATING
ON CURTIS ANGLE
Asserts She Wants to Clear
Herself of Connection
With Deception
PEACOCK APPEARS SURLY
Divine Gives No Cooperation
Despite Fact He is In
voIved in Hoax
PEACOCK APPEARS SURLY

HOpeWell, N. D., May 18.-(H)-A
mystery woman entered the Lind
bergh case, most amazing in modern
criminal annals, Wednesday.
She was Miss Ruth Gay. who, po-
lice said, is cooperating with them in
an attempt to determine the actual
facts of the activities of John Hughes
Curtis land to vindicate herself SO
far as any inferred implications of
her connection with this deception
might exist"
1t was Curtis who confessed, Tues
day, that all of his alleged activities
as an intermediary to obtain return
of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby were
Pigments of his own imagination, but
no previous reference had been made
to any woman in this phase of the
mystery.
The same police statement said
the authorities were getting no help
from the Very Rev. H. Dobson- Pea
cock, companion of Curtis in the
negotiations. They had asked Pea
cock to come to Hopewell and con-
front Curtis but he had ignored two
kilograms and had said in tele-
phone conversation that he could not
get to Hopewell today and that he
did not know If he could come here
at all.
Answer Is Vogue
The official statement said HE
would give no definite answer as to
when he would come to Hopewell and
shows no desire to cooperate with
thu o,,tl,nr;fioc a. %I,;c v>r3>,t oNI,os,rI,
he was told that he was involved by
the statements of Curtis and hts
presence was wanted for the purpose
Of facing Curtis.
At Norfolk, Va. the Ledger Dis
patch said that Curtis had requested
Colonel Lil1dbergh to deposit SOS, 900
In Norfolk bank as an evidence of
good faith and down payment on
the ransom for the return of Lind
bergh's baby.
1t further declared that Dean Dob
son-Peacock flew to Hopewell on
March % to advise Colonel Lindbergh
of demand made by the alleged
kidnapers for earnest money"
Dean Dobson-Peacock refused to
comment on the report.
In statement admitting the false.
ness of his whole story and which he
wrote himself and signed, Curtis asked
the forgiveness Of Col. Lindbergh
for 1.-The inconvenience, worry and in
justice / did him in his time of grief"
For the last seven or eight
months" his statement said. Il have
not been myself, due to financia;
troubles.
Curtis. a Norfolk. Va, boatbuilder
went bankrupt several months ago
later recognizing his company.
: Police Keep Watch
Police Wednesday were keeping
close watch on Curtis lest he commit
suicide because of remorse for his act
but denied reports that he had at
tempted to take his own life.
Because of his monstrous lie. some
suspicion was directed toward the
idea that he may have knowledge Of
the actual kidnapping and scrapings
were taken from an automobile. found
in his shipyard at Norfolk. to ascer-
tain If it recently had been In New
Jersey. His wife, however. insisted
that he was at home on the night of
March 1, when the baby was kid
mapped.
S. w. Ironmonger. chief OF police at
Norfolk, said he feels sure Curtis had
withheld something important in his
confession and had not told the COM
plete story
II Curtis Is held on state charge
it probably will be that Of making
false statements" which means ham
per:ng the ends of justice. He also
could be charged in federal court
with tampering the functions Of gov
eminent, since it was on the strength
Of his story that the coast guard
searched the entire Atlantic coast TO:
a ship which never existed.
It was announced that questioning
Of Curtis was continuing but the re-
suits obtained were not made public
Frank Parzyck. New York dope
fiend. who Tuesday confessed to
part In the kidnapping, was proved
Wednesday also to be faker, admit
ting that he had concocted the story
from q drug-ridden brain.
The Bronx grand jury started Its
inquiry into the payment Of $4,000
ransom money by another intermedi-
ary-Dr. John F. Condor to mar
who represented himself Is acting for
the kidnapers.
Condor himself was not called be-
fore the jury. He Is to tell his story
Friday.
Disastrous Says Condor
Condon, whose negotiations for the
return Of the baby led him. despite
his u years, into adventures in
strange places-the silent Bronx Gem.
etery where he paid over the ransom
money. the day where he took duck
inR on the cold water while seeking
to renew his contact. and to Journeys
in the dead II night, following the
lure Of messages given him by q n,ys-'
terious. yelled woman-said the Cur
Ills hoax had been disastrous to his
own efforts.
He said publication Of statement
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