Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-03
EANEAR HOME CLEARED
HOPE OF AIDING RESCUE:
MANY STATES SEARCHED
Woman Is Sought
After She Mails
Lindbergh Note

BOSTON, March tH).-Ine KID
mapped baby of Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, according to a letter mailed
by a woman in Boston today ad-
dressed to the famous aviator, is held
in a house in a small New Jersey
town.
The letter gave the name of the
place as 'Provincetown, N. j." But
the police interpreted this as re-
ferring to Provinceline, not far from
Princeton. The police and postal
officials said the tip appeared to
be the best clue in the case thus
far, and, basing their judgment on
their experience in such matters,
said they believed 1t to be genuine.
The letter, mailed by an elderly
woman of foreign extraction, for
whom wide police search was started,
was taken from the mails and opened
by authority of Col. Lindbergh. 1t
read, in part, as follows:
Dear Col. Lindbergh:
II don't want to say how this
information came into my posses
sion. I urge you to act on it,
though. 1 know that your son is
held by two men and a woman at
name of town and address of house
to which she referred)."
The letter ended: 81 received this
information from a long distance"
The letter was mailed shortly after
10 am, i'm a postal station in Bos-
toms South End, by a woman, de-
scribed about so years old, feet s
inches tall, weighing about 140
pounds, dressed in dark clothing and
speaking with a strong accent, prob
ably German.
The woman had bought an air
mail stamp, affixed it to the letter,
and then departed, apparently in a
state of extreme agitation. A postal
clerk promptly found the letter,
which was called sharply to his at
tention by this typewriter notation
on the envelope:
PLEASE spare no effort to have
this message concerning Col. Lind
berg's son rushed with all speed
possible. This is no hoax. but 1t
is a vitality important commune
cation"
Driver Explains Presence.
Hope of finding the woman re-
ceived setback when, two hours
after the letter had been mailed,
police stopped the car in which by
ISLANDERS said she had driven away.
Its driver, Harry NJ Spring, for
merly of Milford, N. j., admitted
having been in the postal station
this morning, but said his presence
there at about the time the woman
mailed the letters must have been
a coincidence.
Spring said he had called at the
station to obtain mail for a sick
friend. Springs story was substan-
tiated by his father, who said his
son had worked in Milford, but had
come to Boston three weeks ago
after being laid off.
He said a minister had called to-
day to tell the young man that a
friend was sick in the city hos
pital and that the son had taken
his mother and woman friend
down town, en- route to the hospital.
The typed notice on the envelope
had Lindbergh's name spelled in
correctly, emitting the final n
The Boston police and postal au-
thorities quickly obtained authori-
cation to open the letter from Col.
Lindbergh, both by telephone and
telegraph.
Police reserves had to be sent to
the postal station on Washington
street. in the South End, after word
spread that a letter to Lindbergh
had been mailed there, for large
crowd promptly gathered about the
Office and in the street.
License Plates Traced.
TRENTON. N. j., March 8 [P).-
The New Jersey license plates,
J-6989, noted on an automobile
driven by woman who mailed
letter to Col Lindbergh, in Boston,
today, we're issued to Harry M.
Spring OF Milford, N. j., according
to motor vehicle records here.
The town of Milford is in Hunter
don County, in which portion OF
Col Lindberghs estate is situated.