Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
HYATTSV|ELE CLUE
IN KIDNAPPING FAILS
Mysterious Car in Garage
Now Believed Property
of Salesman.

A clue leading to the belief that Baby
Lindbergh and his kidnapers might be
in Washington or vicinity apparently
collapsed early this afternoon after the
police had ordered an intensive search
Of all hotels and rooming houses for a
couple and curly headed child who left
an automobile in a Hyattsville, Md,
4 garage at midnight Tuesday.
The car which bore Pennsylvania
1 tags, was still In the garage today, al
though the proprietor said the owner
] promised to return for it Wednesday.
Investigation by The Star and Asso-
ciated Press disclosed that the tags we're
issued to a Harrisburg, Pa. chocolate
salesman, who had been away from
there since last November.
He is the father of two children, one
aged 212 years. Although the police
had not located the couple or child late
this afternoon, the fact that chocolate
boxes were found in the machine and
that the owner had called at the garage
on two previous occasions during the
past three weeks seemed to remove sus-
picion from the automobile which had
been described as similar to that be-
lieved used by the kidnapers.
Police, however, made photographs of
the child's f1ngerprints found on the
car, which will be forwarded to the
Lindbergh home.
Officials at the Rush Motor &C,
where the Pennsylvania automobile was
abandoned, first notified police of the
incident this morning.
They told police the man and woman
drove into the garage about midnight
Tuesday. The baby, wrapped in blan-
kets, was held in the arms of the
woman.
The man, who was driving the ma
chine, according to garage officials,
asked to be allowed to leave his ma
chine overnight signifying his inten-
ton Of returning for it the following
day. The couple failed to return, and
officials grew suspicious.
Investigating, Detectives Larry ODea
and Paul Jones of Washington found
that a car of similar description had
stopped for oil and gas at the King
Motor Co., on H street northeast. on
Tuesday night. They were attempting
to determine the time the car was seen
at the washington motor company in
order to figure whether it could have
been driven from the Lindbergh's New
Jersey home to Washington in the time
p that had elapsed after the kidnapping
J. j. Crowley, chief of the Prince
Georges County force, ordered his men
to search Hyattsville and the vicinity
for the couple and child
The proprietor of the King Motor Co
told police he has regular customer
with car somewhat resembling that
described by Hyattsville authorities. He
consented to 60 to Hyattsville and look
AT the in 0IIoSfi0Y
Detective Sergt. Fred Sandberg.
Washington f1ngerprint, expert, went
to Hyattsville early this afternoon and
obtained f1ngerprints from the car. An
attempt will be made, he said if New
Jersey police have fingerprints of the
Lindbergh baby, to check them with
those taken from the machine.
In the car were found samples of
candy and ice cream cones, which
police suppose the owner of the ma
chine was selling.
local radio stations in the search for
the couple and child At intervals of
a half hour the following announcement
was being broadcast
About midnight Tuesday evening. a
man and woman with I1s-year-old
BABY wrapped in a blanket, drove to a
garage at Hyattsville and left their
Studebaker automobile, stating they
would come for 1t Wednesday morning.
They have not returned for the car
and Inspector Burke requests all hotels
and rooming houses to notify him i'm
me0lately II they have seen a couple
with a baby since Tuesday night"