Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-13
EXTENSIVE HUNT PLANNED FOR
SLAYERS OF LINDBERGH'S BABY
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OF PERSONS Win MIlOlH 1olluOIl AIll
Curtis dealt.
Discovery of the pitifui, mutilated
corpse, with the skull crushed, at
Mount Rose hill yesterday after
noon less than five miles from tho
Lindhergh home, horritied the ma
tion. 1t removed all barriers to
bringing into play every power
hitherto held in check for fear overt
police action might bring harm to
the baby.
Authorities made it plain that a
hunt perhaps unprecedented IN
criminal history was already in
progress: that no spot on earth
would be safe for the killers; that
every peace officer in the United
States would be on the alert, that
foreign police would lend their full
cooperation; that no matter where
the blood money extorted from the
tortured parents is spent, it will be
traced
Gang Suspected
Colonel Schwartzkouf announced
gang of suspects is aleardy under
observation and that immediate
steps will be taken and are being
taken to accomplish their arrests.
This was believed to refer to infor-
nation Condor and Curtis might
have.
Police were Spurred by the almost
incredible callousneSs of the crime,
indicating it either had been COM
mitted by a madman for revenge
or by scarcely human criminals, or
by amateurs frightened by pub
licity.
The child, for which the world
has been searching for two and q
half months. was murdered soon
after the kidnaping-perhaps on
the night of the kidnapping itself.
The heart of the world went out
to the bereaved parents. Col and
Mrs. Charles a. Lindbergh-to Mrs.
soon to be a mother
again, and to her flyer husband,
who has spent tortured days and
nights hunting ceaselessly. Their
nideouS uncertainty was at last
ended, to be replaced by mourn
ing.
Mrs. Lindbergh was at home when
they brought her the news. Her
grief and shock were hidden from
the world, although she was said
to be bearing up bravely within
the closely guarded Sourland hills
home the Lindberghs had built.
Col. Lindbergh was away and was
summoned.
He arrived shortly before 2 a. m.
in a motor car reported driven by
Edwin B. Bruce OF Elmira. N. Y,
and accompanied by Condor and
Curtis, a close friend of Bruce.
The baby's body was taken to
The morgue at Trenton for a post
mortem and police recording. DR..
Charles R. Mitchell, county physic-
AN. said it would be reported
Tor the time being as an unknown
oaby but would be released to the
Lindberghs as soon as they claim
It.
Idemity Certain
Then today DR.. Phillip Van 1gen,
New York Physician connected
with the Rockefeller institute, who
examined the baby two weeks be-
fore the kidnapping, positively iden-
titled the body.
1t was at 3:15 p. m. yesterday
when a negro truck driver and his
helper found the skeleton in
,lump of woods about four and a
lalf miles south of the Lindbergh
home near the tiny hamlet of
Mount Rose.
The baby had been killed, ap-
oarently by a blow on the head,
md the corpse secreted in the
woods about rs feet from the road.
An attempt had been made to cor.
,eal it in shallow depression,
scraped in the under
,rush, and it may have been COW
red up until the wind and rain OF
more than two months brought it
o light to be casually discovered
~ the Mortified truckmen.
The body lay face down. The
sleeping suit was missing. Two
iirty and rain soaked shirts lay
N the shrivelled and decomposed
orm. The stomach band and dia-
)ers were gone. Remnants of the
,hild's blond, curly hair clung to
he skull.
The finder, William Allen, ran
oack to his truck, informed his
and the police were
lotified. In an incredibly short
ime, garments of the child were
,rought from the Lindbergh home
md found TO match perfectly.
The Identification was made
more perfectly later. Physical
characteristics convinced Mrs.
and the childs nurse,
Betty Cow, that it was Charles,
Ir.
The discovery of the body re-
vealed the cruelty practiced on
Colonel Lindbergh when the sup
posed kidnapers eXtorted $4,000
from him for a child already dead
It revealed, too, the futility of the
great search.
Throughout March and April
false hopes were aroused almost
daily. Colonel Lindbergh, through
his Intermediates, negotiated with
The supposed kidnapers and hope
fully paid over his $4,000 to be
yilely tricked.
The public watched the "Jafsie"
notes published in the papers by
DR.. John F. Condor, the colonel's
Intermediary; read, the money IS
ready" and thrilled with hope;
read later, have you crossed me?
Please better directions" and then
learned that the money had been
paid when the numbers of the bills