The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-17
|LINDY AND ANNEPIN
ALL HOPE ON BELIEF
THEIR BOY IS ALIVE
Sorrowing Parents Have Feel
ing Kidnapers May Nego-
tate For His Return
EXCITEMENT IS DYING DOWN
Police Urged to HurriedIy Erase
Blot on Fair Name Of
New Jersey

Hopewell, N. j., Mar. 17.-(AP)-
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh,
waiting stoically through the drag
ging days and nights, were reported
Thursday to pin their hopes on:
(1) A police belief that Charles
Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., kidnapped
16 days ago, still is alive.
(2) A feeling that when the Juror
subsidies, the kidnapers may nego-
tate the 20-month-old child's return.
The world excitement that followed
the crime already is dying down.:
Wednesday newspapermen here sent
cut by telegraph only $4,000 words.
On March 8, at the high pitch, 24O,-
600 words streamed over the wires.
A high police authority, declaring
belief the child is alive, based it on
the contention the kidnapers would
be afraid to destroy the infant. 1t
would be just as easy to leave it in
a hotel room if the hunt pressed too
close, he said.
No Nearer Solution
Although detective ingenuity law
ished on the case, he said, would rival
that of any of the master sleuths
of fiction or real life, the police are
no nearer solution than they were
two weeks ago.
They do not even know, he indi-
Gated, whether the worlds most noted
kidnapping case was the work of
professional infant snatchers or
amateurs with amazing luck.
Tho 1ofocf %hon~y ", tho v,%V.c$ avn,
fell apart Thursday.
For several days police from the
Lindbergh home have been investi-
eating the story of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
Leandto Lightfoot, Of Franklin Park,
who told Of their foreign servants
leaving the day after the kidnapping.
The Lightfoots reported also wood
similar to that used in the kidnaper's
ladder was missing from their home,
as was chisel like the one found be-
meath the Lindbergh nursery window.
Thursday the Lightfoots found the
chisel, and police acknowledged they
were just about back where they
started on the night Of March l when
the baby was stolen.
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, SUI
perintendent of state police, told Of
the finding Of the chisel in his mid
morning bulletin. He said there Is
no suspicion placed on Mr.. and Mrs.
ThornEurg the missing servants) In
this particular instance any more.
The other parts of the story are being
further checked.
The rest of Schwarzkopf's bulletin
dealt with angles Of the case already
proven to be Of no value.
Appeals For N. ].
A call for all police departments
in the state to act in concert to re-
move "the blot on the fair name of
New Jersey" was issued by Herbert
e. Wildey, Morristown chief Of po-
lice and president Of the New Jersey
association Of police chiefs.
Belief the undercover agents of
Col. Lindbergh had made little head
way in their attempt to get the child
back was expressed by the same high
official who said he believed the in
FAINT was alive.
The New York Daily News said
the colonel had hired a private de-
tective agency to augment the
searching forces and had given it
full power to act for him in nego-
tiating with the kidnapers.
Another of the many "leads" col
lapsed Wednesday when William
Gleason was released and cleared of
all suspicion. Charles Oliver, in
mate of a New York City peniten-
larry, had accused Gleason of plotting
t. kidnap the child months ago.