Evening star., 1932-04-12
Ransom Bin Believed offered in Green
wich, Conn, Bakery.

WOMAN NOW SOUGHT.
Ransom Bin Believed Offered in Green
wich, Conn, Bakery.
HOPEWELL, N j., April II (P).-A
chic woman in green town car be-
came quarry In the great Lindbergh
kidnapping hunt today
On the highways of many States
police sought her after a bakery pro-
prietress in Greenwich, Conn, spotted
$40 bill she profered in payment for
q. strawberry pie as part Of the $50, GOO
ransom mulcted FROM Col Charles A.
Lindbergh.
THE hunt intensified when detectives
recalled that a green sedan was seen
near the Lindbergh home on Sourland
Mountain on the night of the kidnapping g
or Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., on March l.
This development, and a theory that
the person who took Col. Lindbergh'S s
$50 900 without returning the stolen
child was an estranged member Of the
kidnap gang who no longer has the
baby in his possession, stirred the myS-
terry 10 new boiling point.
Flight ArouseS Suspicious.
Police, wise IN the underworld's ways,
had expected the swindler or swindlers
of the flying colonel to wait months
before trying to spend the cash OBJ
tanned by double cross, but the Green
W1ch development, assuming the bakery
owner got the number of the bill right,
showed they had dared to throw dis
crpsiOn to the winds.
There was no Indication as to whether
the unknown woman actually was con-
nected with the kidnapping or swindle,
but the haste with which she fed when
the number on the bill was pointed out
reused police suspicious.
The proprietress, Mrs. Ella Decor
nile, had pasted beside her counter a
List of The numbers on the $50,ooo, as
sent out ny the United States Treasurer.
A handacme. middle-aged woman drove
up to her shop last night. she said. with
q liver1ed chauffeur at the wheel, and
made small purchase.
When she handed over the bill, Mrs.
Decornille mechanically glanced at its
number It was KBo33S7539A, the
bakery woman said.
Grabbed the Bill.
~''Why this is one of the Lindbergh
bills" she CALCULATED.
The woman tore it from her hand,
and sped away toward New York on
the Boston Post road. Police automatic
telegraphs clattered the alarm
Woman Is white" It said Age AZ.
Five feet six inches. Good-loeking.
Dark complexioned Wore string Of
green and silver beads around neck.
Gray felt hat. Gray tweed coat. Brown
dress"
No word from the kidnapers since
the swindle has been received by Col.
Lindbergb, said Col II. Norman
Schvarzkopf. head Of the State police,
after conference In New York with
Col Henry BrecAnridge. legal adviser
OF Lindbergh. Y
pr. John r. condOn. educator, de-
scr1bed as the author Of a series Of
cryptic newspaper advertisements signed
"Jafste," which led to the thwarted ne
gukiations for the babys return, was
Believed to have attended the confer
erice also.
Condon Is Hopeful
Or. Condor was quoted as believing
the situation would adjust ITSELF" but
three Norfolk men, who have been ne
goslatlng with person they believe to
be an agent for the kidnapers, were
represented as pessimistic about the re-
turn OF the baby by the person who
took the $4,000. The Norfolk inter-
nediaries are understood to have
warned Col Lindbergh they were deal
ING with the real abductors, and that
tine other person was q member Of the
gang who broke away and used his
inside knowledge to make $4,000.
According to the story told police
headquarters in New Yorf-, the $4,000
was turned over by DR.. Condor after
o series OF meetings with a mysterious
enissary. one Of them near a cemetery.
The New York Daily News saws that
after the baby failed to be returned,
Col. Lindbergh and aides returned to
the cemetery scene in the Bronx, and,
using surgical plaster, took casts Of the
eml5sary's footprints to aid in the hunt.
The Daily News says that the tokens
given to Col. Lindbergh during the ne
gotiations as proof that the baby really
was IN the possession Of the persons
demanding $50, 600 were two safety pins
such as had been used to pin the baby's
blankets TO its crib.
Conden Stin Hopeful
DR.. Condor, carrying two heavy suit
cases and a satchel, made a mysterious
trip from his home In the Bronx yes
terday, but refused to say where he
had been.
DR.. Condor still expressed hope the
agreement would be kept and the baby
returned. The police theory was that
the child Is still alive. Last night In
spector Harry Walsh Of the Jersey City
Police Department said:
We still hold the best Of hopes for
the child's safety and we believe the
child is still alive We have very good
reasons for this belief. but the present
IS poor time 10 explain"
. The Rev. n. Dobson Peacock, one of
the Norfolk Intermediates said in that
city he was increasingly optimistic that
the negotiations in which he is helping
would be successful. One of his COL
leagues, John II. Curtis, boat builder,
has been away from home since Sunday
on q mysterious errand.
The "Jafsie" advertisements were IS
In number The last, inserted after
the money was paid and the baby failed
to come back read: