The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-16

ton, Pa, taxi driver, who drove mysterious passengers to Hopewell recently, and claimed that nt thelr behest he took d verbal note say ing:
 Baby safe; withdraw police March 9 and 10. Direct communt- cation Lndbergh phone. Call spi- tale (Lindbergh's go between) from Longacre, Important" Longacre Is a New York Telephone exchange. The police said an investigation of his story of his strange passen- gers and their stranger maneuvers had not proven "any facts of his story"
 Hopewell, N. J., March 16.--- (UP)-Search for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby whose parents still believe he Is safe and well doubled back to-day on an old trail-the trail of two German servants who vanished the day after the crime, two weeks ago to-day.
 The servants, professedly man and wife, went to work for Mrs c. L. Lightfoot of Franklin Park near New Brunswick about a month before the crime. They left suddenly after reporting they had news of illness abroad.
 Next day, Mrs Lightfoot report ed, she found a chisel that had been in their home was missing, Also missing was a crate that had been used in packing bedroom fur niture. The crate was lumber similar to that used in the kidnap- ers' ladder.
 The Lightfoots reported the in- cidents to state police shortly after the Kidnapping. The incident was dismissed along with hundreds of other suggestions and clues as im- material. Failure of every other clue has resulted in the 'recheck which lends more importance to the Franklin Park report.
 Faith of the Lindberghs that Charles A. Lindbergh Jr will be returned safely to the big home on Sorrel mountain persists despite failure of all clues so far re-
 Both are bearing up well de- spite the strain of the long search. The colonel spends most of his time near his private tele. phone line. Anne Morrow Lind- bergh spends all the time possible at his side. Her mother helps her in the home. Both frequently walk together on the terrace. Colonel Lindbergh wants to keep out of the headlines as he feels that will best aid the search for his son. And he has let 1t be known that some reports, labelled "false," may interfere with the search. Among such reports were these:
 That the Lindberghs have re-
 ceived authentic communications from the kidnapers.
 That the underworld has assur. ance of the baby's safety.
 That incinerators are being searched for evidence.
 That J. P. Morgan has furnished a quarter million dollars taken to Detroit to be paid as ransom.
 Such information, the colonel let it be known tends to mislead the
 parties whose confidence Lind.
 bergh believes he must win to re- cover his baby. t1
 Among the incidents that have led Investigators down the trail of the two missing Lightfoot ser- wants are these:
 The night before the servants ' vanished, they asked for the Light 1 foot car to make a trip to New
 Brunswick, four miles distant. The speedometer showed 60 miles next ! day. The car was undiscovered. 1 Roads to New Brunswick are paved.
 The day after the crime, the l Lightfoots went to New York. That afternoon. after their return. the servants announced they had just received a cablegram from Europe, that a relative was i'll, and that they would have to leave at once. The chisel and crate lumber were missing; and 1t was recalled that the butler had built an ex- tension for their ladder used around the house.
 The word 'gut", German for good, is reported to have been used in the ransom note left in the i baby's nursery.
 The couple had given conflicting surnames, although claiming. to be man and wife. Their reports on this country were conflicting. RCPOkNo OA OtACk GAdGo 4hvSotA- gated, in brief were:
 Charles Oliver, the mysterious prisoner questioned by the mysteri- ous Morris Rosner, undercover man, was relieved of suspicion along with two others questioned on a story he had told of six month-old Kidnapping plot. Others released were Daniel Murnane. Bayonne N. J., and Mrs Gather inc Duchek. boarding house pro- prietor. William Gleason. for- mer fellow prisoner of oliver, probably will be released later on disorderly conduct charge pend- ing. Gleason and Oliver charged each other with suggesting kid- naping of the Lindbergh baby. Neither could have participated. prison records showed.
 John vannerman In Paasaic county jail had claimed he over- heard three men plotting. That investigation extended from Yonk- CTS te East0n. pa. to Newark. No evidence was found.
 stanley crandail. ex.convict, is under investigation by the New