Seward daily gateway., 1932-03-07
LINDDE.YGH NAMES
 TWO GANGsTE TERS
 AS 'GO-BETNEENS
BELIEF IS EXPRESSED THAT KIDNAPPERS MAY BE ON
 RUM SHIPS

SO1I O1 GUA. S44dA AESS A. AAlAlAAOCA SAA was still missing today while the best minds of criminology tried desperately to develop two clues.
 A sailor, former chauffeur for the Lindberghs, was being ques- tioned in Hartford, Conn. In Hope we'll, microscopic examination of the ladder used in the Kidnapping was expected to reveal some evil dence leading to the identity of it's builder.
 Officials at Hopewell have com plete faith in the integrity of Betty Cow, the baby'S nurse, and issued an official exoneration of her and they placed little faith in the Hartford development.
 Later, the wood in the ladder found at Colonel Lindberghs home after his baby had been Kidnapped was described by a county officer as the kind used at a Bronx ship yard, frequented by Henry Red" Johnson, Lindbergh's former chauf- feur, held at Hartford for inveSti- gation
 It was also stated that milk bottle cap, found in the car in which Johnson came to visit brother here, controverts his contention as to the hour of his arrival
 Check Up Johnson At EngleWood, N. J., Mrs w. T. Sherman, proprietreSS Of the room ing house where Johnson stayed, said Johnson was at her home. Tuesday night but she cannot re- member whether he was there all evening The Lindbergh child was kidnapped Tuesday night
 She was equally uncertain re- garding a telephone call Johnson is reported to have made Tuesday evening to Miss Betty Cow. Mrs. Sherman, whose hearing is defect i've, displayed extreme annoyance at being questioned on her earlier alibi for Johnson and after an swering in sharp laconic sentences one or two questions, she slammed the door in a reporters face.
 New Angle
 Another new angle of the kidnap- ping case was revealed when it was learned that two underworld characters, both Italians, were all legged to be go-betweens in the case. Because of their connection authorities are now looking be- yond the 12-mile limit of the At lantic Ocean as the hideout of the kidnappers.
 The waters of the Atlantic are not far from the Lindbergh estate at Hopewell-an hours distance by automobile and it was stated that transferring the child to waiting motorboat would have been an easy matter. 3*
 - Mystery Ships
 All winter, rum ships are an- chored beyond the Emile limit, and this winter business has not been as flourishing as usual. The Coast Guard cutter patrol recall, on the night of the Kidnapping, a mysterious motorboat was sighted; also, mystery ship which another vessel sighted and went to her aid.
 The mystery ship apparently was in trouble but when the passenger ship came alongside, the mystery ship immediately protested from being boarded and sped away. Two men were aboard the mystery ves- sel, it was said, but it would have been an easy matter for others and the baby to be hidden below. This mystery ship from that spot may have proceeded on to rum row and one of the theories is that the LlndDergn child Is being nelu nere.
 This latest angle is made more plausible by the fact that the ran- som money could be transferred at sea with much more ease than on shore, as there would not be so many interested outside persons as newspaper men, photographers, private detectives, etc.
 Communication between Colonel Lindbergh and the gangster inter nediates was believed to have been established. New York police, how ever, refused to discuss this feature