The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-18
Infamous Fiction COnCuCted
by Faker Forms an
Amazing Web.
NAMES MYTHICAL MEN
Women and Boats That
Never Existed Also Men,
toned by Fraud.

profit by selling to newspapers the
story of his "Lindbergh kidnapping
negotiations" is told in three ram
bling confessions now in hands of
the state police.
He gave names OF men, women
and boats. He told Of mysterious
telephone calls. of radio signals sent
up from a gray Ford automobile. Of
the description Of the actual kid
naping" of the Lindbergh child, and
of mysterious moves up and down
the Atlantic seaboard. through New.
Jersey and the metropolitan dis
tricts of New York.
"Hilda," one of his mythical char
acters, told him how the kidnapping
occurred and in one statement he
related her" incoherent story.
Planned 80 Days Ahead
The plan started thirty or forty
five days before it occurred.
That the green Hudson was put
about 800 or 400 feet away and the
Buick with Sam in it was over on
that road where he could see the
lights of the house.
They went in by the ladder and
came out by the front door and
they said that when he came down
the key was in the front door of
the pantry and she said that they
had inside help to take care Of them.
They went down the steps and
went out the door They had some
one there to lock the door if it was
necessary"
Curtis already has confessed that
the names he gave were purely
imaginary, but he reeled of the fol-
lowing:
Dynamite" John, Sam, Meals,
Hilda, Inez.
The later was augmented with
description which showed "Dyna-
mite" to be Captain Olaf Larsen,
or Lauren" a 42-year-old man who
spoke with broken Scandinavian
accent. Sam was Sam Goldberg
or Sam the Gas Man." further
described as a large Norwegian Jew.
Baby on Phantom Ship
John was large, athletic Scan
dinavian,n who spoke broken Eng
lish. Both "Hilda" and "Inez" spoke
with an accent. were well formed
fairly well educated and both mar
ried.
Inez worked radio sending and
receiving station from Ford auto
mobile which contacted the 'phan-
tom ship" upon which Curtis said
the baby was held.
Curtis said Sam" approached him
at the Norfolk Country Club March
9, and asked him to get in touch
with Colonel Lindbergh. The Rev.
H. Dobson Peacock and Rear-Ad-
miral Guy H. Burrage we're called
in by Curtis to facilitate getting in
communication with Colonel Lind
bergh.
There were many mysterious con-
facts in New York City-at a cafe
terra on the west side-and at New
ark. Once, Curtis said, he carried
one of the negatiators in his mo-
tor car eighteen hours while trying
to get in touch with Lindbergh. The
man, Curtis confessed, had a note
sealed with wax, and addressed to
Lindbergh.
Shown Ransom Money
Another time he met the group in
Newark and they showed him the
ransom money which DR.. John F.
Condor had paid to kidnapers in
Bronx cemetery. He said he com
pared notes that they showed him
with newspaper clipping listing
the serial numbers Of the bills Col.
Lindbergh had paid out in his
frantic efforts to reclaim his baby.
The notes checked with the list, he
said.
At another time, he said, he went
on board craft which the negotia-
tors used.
I'VE had quite a session." Curtis
confession said. lin which John
suggested that I was in their power
and that they could do anything
they wanted with me, and I told
them was not afraid of them. and
from then on 1 sort Of halfway con-
trolled the situation.
II told then that had in locked
box a whole record Of this trans
action and If they did anything to
me they would be worse of than
they we're before. To that they
agreed"
Cursed the Colonel
Then he related how he and his
aids followed a charted course-as
given them by the negotiators-off
Block island without finding the
child, of a conference in New York
City. at which 1t was agreed to
make a trip of the Virginia Capes,
and Of how he went on another boat
and was shown more Of the ransom
money.
He said he told them at a confer
ence that Colonel Lindbergh desired
more information, to which one of
the negotiators replied:
TO hell with the colonel. II he
don't believe you. he can go to hell.
What more does he want? We got
his money"
Curtis told Of the trips out OF
Norfolk in search Of the Contact
vessel" and how many directions
had come from the woman ''Hilda."
whom he had first met az a confer
ence at Cape May. The woman
communicated with Captain Ken
meth Whiting at the naval base at
Norfolk, he said. and he telephoned
her first at Cape May telephone
number ard later az Freeport
telephone number.
A checkup Of the latter telephone
shows ii to be a reputable dancing
academy where no one OF the name
OF Hilda Is known. Further checks
at Norfolk show Curtis did not make
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