The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-05

mountain.
Yet today the anguished
parents still only could hope
for an answer to their prayer
that the kidnapers would sur
render the child, take the
$4,000 ransom, and escape
prosecution by the Lind
berghs.
Police work meantime centered in
Hartford, Conn, where Henry (Red)
Johnson, the sailor -suitor Of the
Lindbergh'S nursemaid, Betty Cow,
was under police examination as to
his whereabouts on the kidnapping
night.
The story he was understood to
have told did not entirely tally With
word from the home Of Mrs. w. L.
Sherman, where Johnson roomed.
johnson had talked with the
comedy Scotch maid about 8To'eloek,
two hours before she went to Baby
Lindbergh's room and found the
crib empty and the child gone.
Conflict in Stories
According to the Hartford ver-
sion. johnson said he left home
about an hour after the call and
drove to his brothers home in West
Hartford, arriving early in the
morning.
From the Englewood home came
word that he stayed home Tuesday
night and drove of Wednesday
morning, arriving in the afternoon
at West Hartford. The Hartford
authorities said he had arrived in
the afternoon.
At his rooming house, they said
he was "all right and merely the
victim of the coincidence that he
knew a member of the LinGbergh
household.
Police Aces Convene
Meantime, in Trenton, police
faces" from many cities assembled
with Governor A. Harry Moore to
consider the case and Commissioner
Edward P. Mulrooney of New York
suggested a powerful organization
of ministers or lawyers to. act as
Intermediates with the kidnapers.
Calling of the conference at a
time when Lindbergh was striving
to get the abductors to come clean"
without fear of prosecution Trom
him. brought criticism in an edito-
rial of the influential Newark Eve
ming News today.
Lindberghs Show Suspense
Meanwhile, at Hopewell, the Lind
berghs began to show the ravages
of suspense. Lindbergh's eyes showed
plainly that efforts at self-control
were difficult.
His telephone line has been
opened, free of police surveillance,
and he waits. agonized, for some
word from the kidnapers that they
will give back his child. Mrs. Lind
bergh, normally a woman of I'M
usual poise, is becoming tenser as
the hours pass with no word.
The Lindberghs have the $4,000
ransom in cash ready at Newark to
pay over.
They have given their word of
honor that any negotiations will be
secret and confidential. They will
not turn the police on the kid
napers' track.
All they want is their baby home
again.
The hours since the kidnapping are
like nightmare.
It was 10 o'clock Tuesday night
when Miss Cow went to the nursery
to look after her charge, who had
been suffering from a cold. Mrs.
Lindbergh had kissed the child
good night before 8 p. m, at which
time Lindbergh came home.
Nnrsemaid Gives Alarm
He had an appointment for din
ner in town, but through con-
fusion of dates had failed to keep it.
The Lindberghs. usually only
week lending at their Sourland
mountain place, had extended their
stay.
Did the kidnapers know this, and
how did they obtain the informa-
ton?
Whe-l- Miss Cow gave the alarm,
the police were asked to go to the
Lindbergh home, and some time was
lost because they were not told on
the telephone that they were want
ed in kidnapping case.
That night and the next day the
police cordons searched for cars.
Check Hundreds of Tips
They had tips OF strangers asking
their way to the Isndberah home
Tuesday evening and they found