Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-19
JOHNSON EXAMINED
At k|DNAP SCENE
Sailor Taken to Lindbergh
Estate-SuspeCt Arrested
at Highland Park.
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kopf. superintendent of State police
They are not being held in connection
with The case"
SchkarZkopf said when johnson ar
rived at the estate last night he was
tired and so was permitted to sleep
before detectives began examining him.
He Is being questioned this MORN
ing" SchWarZkopf said. His statement
indicates that he had been to Hopewell
several times, and it Is desired to take
him over the ground to verify the state
ment. His status has not changed and
he is not under arrest by the New Jer-
sey authorities on any charge, but is
still held on q detainer lodged against
him by the immigration authorities"
New Theory Investigated.
johnson, who was formerly deck
hand on Thomas W. Lamont's yacht.
entered the police Investigation a few
days after Charles Augustus Lindbergh,
jr., was stolen from his crib March /.
Detectives have asserted repeatedly
there was no evidence TO link him with
the abduction.
He left his Englewood boarding house
the day after the kidnapping and went
in his automobile to Hartford, Conn.
The night before he had date" to
meet Miss Cow, but the engagement
was broken. Instead of meeting her,
he said. he telephoned her at Hope
we'll about the time the kidnapers were
committing their crime.
Police have explained they were
holding him for deportation because
he came here from Sweden illegally.
A new theory set detectives TO work
Yesterday. 1t is that the abductors
fooled pursuit by substituting the child
for another.
The police think it possible they took
the child to a family which already
had one of the same age The Gus
todians of the Lindbergh infant would
then have to send their own child
away.
Newark were in Washington last night
checking passport records on the
chance the child may have been sent
to a foreign country.
The detectives also visited Baltimore
on a tip the custodians real child may
have been sent to Europe on the Bal
timore mail liner City of Baltimore,
which departed for Havre the day aft
er the kidnapping Ten children were
on the ship, the line officials said, and
one was about the Lindbergh baby's
age.
Meanwhile, the pursuit of countless
leads and tips went on. An alarm was
sent out when some one reported he
saw three men drive through Keyport,
N j., with hole-punched box from
which cries of baby came.
In Pocatello, Idaho, Ignace Blau-
stein recanted his story that he drove
the automobile for the kidnapers.
Two servants, who quit their jobs in
Franklin Park. N. j.. the day after
the kidnapping, were found and ex-
planned their movements satisfactorily.
The servants, Paul and Katie Engsten-
berg, had gone to new posts in Bryn
Mawr, Pa.
TWO persons out of a steady stream
of men and women seen to enter and
leave the Office of Police Capt. Henry
Gauthier in Jersey City we're recog-
nized as JohanSen Junge, friend of
Johnson, and the sailors brother who
lives in Hartford, Conn.
They left after several hours. Police,
however, refused to discuss the Incl
dent, or even to admit that Junge and
johnson were questioned.