The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-10
HUNT MOUNTAIN
:. AREA FOR CLEW
/ TO ABDUCTORS
Intensive Search Is Being
Conducted by State
Police Group.
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understood to have shed some light
On her story, and resulted in release
pf the Russian.
The laws effort TO return the kid
mapped Lindbergh baby to his tor
tured parents has settled down to
The hum-drum routine elementals
pf police work-in the drab, mysteri-
ous, desolate and inhospitabIe
"badlands" Of the Sourlands noun
tains.
New Jersey state police, trained
Tor patrol work and traffic duty, but
not trained detectives, are seeking
The kidnapers Of baby Lindbergh
among the Jackson whites and
pineys, the backward hill country
people. Some Of these people are
descendants of the Hessians who
opposed Washington at Trenton in
revolutionary war days.
Some are Of mixed blood, white.
Negro and Indian
All resent instrusion.
Four Villages Combed
The "badland" search, based on
the theory that workmen among
them built the "kidnaper's ladder
from lumber given them while on
construction jobs at the Skillnnan
institute for Epileptics, several
miles from the Lindbergh home,
was the one undisputed develop
ment today.
The search started Wednesday
and gained momentum during the
day and night.
Troopers, aided by police from
Newark and Jersey City, searched
every building and shack in at least
-FOUR small settlements near the iso-
lated Lindbergh estate - Zion.
Wertsville, Montgomery and Ne
Bhanic.
The workers examined wells.
caves, gullies, abandoned summer
shacks and timberland.
Their first stop, at the home of
Salvatore Arena near Zion, brought
protests from the 80-year-oJd
mother, who said through an In
tcrpreter that police prowling
around the place makes me nervous"
The Zion Episcopal church, a
White-washed stone building among
the many searched, was built in
1870.
Trappers Serve as Guides
Some searchers were led by Mrs.
Antonio Cholowsky, a capable guide,
because of her intimate knowledge
OF the country.
Others we're led by trappers, a
few natives and hunters who had
been in the area before.
They found nothing, so far as
official announcements we're con-
Cerned, but the troopers appeared
to be hopeful and satisfied they
were making progress. They did
receive several bits of interesting
comment.
Squire johnson, who originally
identified the ladder lumber as
similar to that used in the state
construction at Skillman, accom-
panied one group of troopers.
He interviewed fifteen of thirty
natives who had been employed on
the job. They sought the other
fifteen during the night, and early
today.
One official commented:
These people," he said, "do not
want contact with the outside world.
The establishment of Colonel Lind
bergh's home, with the subsequent
horde of newspaper men and in
quisitive sightseers, would not be
welcomed.
May Resent Colonel Lindbergh
Their minds are of the type
that would figure Colonel Lind
bergh would move his family from
the district If his baby we're stolen.
True, they are not gifted with
what is known as normal intellect,
but they have certain cunning
that is greater than that of the
average person.
If they obtained lumber from
Che construction job, they would
hot freely part with it. They
wouldn't sell it except at a fancy
price"
He explained, then. that if they
did part with lumber at good
price, they would remember the
buyer. If they didn't. then the
humber was stolen from them or
used by one of them," the official
said.
Among suggestions advanced by
natives was one by Rebecca Bush,
sister of the trapper who helped
brazil footprints from the Lindbergh
home the morning after the kid
haping
She told of an old blue car in
which rode three men.
Il first saw it five or six days
before the kidnapping. The men
we're strangers going toward Skill
man. I noticed it every day about
$50 a. m. until after the baby was
taken. 1t hasn't passed since then.
This is about the story told by
Alfred Hammond, grade crossing
watchman at Skillman.
People here feel that whoever
finds the child would be suspected"
/" she continued. If police went with
the folks, I believe every man and
boy here would help search.
Mrs. Matilda Morrison. whose
physician-husband was mysteriouSly
slain in this country twenty years
ago, discussed the case, and the
murder of her husband.
Think Baby Will Be Found
She thinks the outlaws who
killed DR.. John Morrison, when he
went out to check on the theft
of his fishing supplies, are dead.
She still has a sense of fear of the
/. district, although still living there
with Mrs. Cholowsky.
Their home is cottage 400 feet
back from the road, in the shadow
Of a hill encrusted with rocks and
boulders, and covered with scrup
pine and underbrush.
Mrs. Morrison sat in that home
late Wednesday and predicted the
Lindbergh baby would be found
'nearby."