The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-02
PARADISE LOST
Abduction Skaters Happiness

And in the shadows of Mexico's
famous volcanoes, Popocatepetl
and Ixtlacihualt, rising $4,000 feet
above sea level, their romance de-
veloped. The two few over the
beautiful hills and valleys of that
countryside, they Strolled about
the romance developing Morrow
estate.
THEN on Feb. II, 1929, their
a engagement was announced.
1t was a brief statement from
Ambassador Morrow:
Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow
announce the engagement of their
daughter, Anne Spencer Morrow,
to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh."
At the moment of the an
nouncement, the colonel was
"lost" somewhere over the Carib-
bean. He had taken off from
Belize, Honduras, on one of his
chart-making flights, and as
sumed as a matter of course that
every one knew chart making
would require a little extra time.
Before that announcement
Lindbergh always had replied to
questions of his engagement:
Il have nothing to say"
And Elizabeth Morrow, Anne's
sister, whose name had been
linked with the flier'S, was asked
the same questions when she re-
turned from Europe, chaperoned
by j. P. Morgan. She just
laughed.
Mrs. j. j. Morrow, the aunt,
had commented:
"Lindy isn't a bit sentimental.
He doesn't care for girls"
The wedding was a surprise"
especially to newspaper men who
had camped about the Morrow
home here, and in Maine, ex-
pecting a ceremony at any time,
ON May 81, and for days
~ previously, cameramen, re-
porters, stood guard around the
Englewood estate. There were re-
ports of telephone lines tapped,
and servants bribed to get news
of the wedding.
Not a guest in that home that
day knew the wedding was
planned. Only two servants, the
chauffeur and housekeeper, knew
of the plans.
Six persons knew of the plans.
They we're Ambassador and Mrs.
Morrow, Miss Elizabeth Morrow,
DR.. William Adams Brown, the
minister, Mrs. Evangeline Lind
bergh and Mary Smith, the
dressmaker who helped make
Anne's gown.
At 6 o'clock, Arthur Springer,
MI. Morrow's secretary, ap-
preached the newsmen, and
handed them slips with these
words printed thereon:
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight w. Nor
row announce the marriage of
their daughter Anne to Charles
A. Lindbergh, at Englewood, N.
j., May q, 1929"
The colonel then was 81. His
bride was %.
They had driven past the army
Of watchers unobserved in a sedan
two hours earlier, and already
were lost in the traffic en- route
to their honeymoon yacht.
THEY next reappeared to the
4 public on their yacht off the
coast of Maine near the Morrow
summer estate at North Haven.
There followed many air trips
in which the flying couple con-
tinued their honeymoon. Several
transcontinental trips were in
Guided. And Anne Lindbergh
continued her flying almost to the
day their child was born.
After one transcontinental flight
which ended not long before birth
of the boy, there were reports that
Mrs. Lindberg had collapsed as
she stepped from the plane of the
New York landing field.
The reports were denied.
Then one Thursday she made a
short flight up into Connecticut.
And on Sunday, her own birth
day, she presented the Lindberghs
and Morrows with a 74-5-pound
boy, born in a specially con-
structed hospital built into the
Morrow home at E~nglewood.
DR.. Everitt M. Hawks and seven
assistants attended Mrs. Lind
bergh and her boy. Miss Marie
Cummings was attendant nurse.
The town and newsmen knew
the baby's arrival was scheduled
for any minute. The street near
the Morrow home was thronged
by the inquisitive.
And soon after the dinner hour,
Miss Cummings stepped into one
room where stood the colonel and
his father -in-law, and announced:
It's a boy"
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GONE weeks later the colonel
~ himself handed out photo
graphs of his boy to all except a
few newspapers and newspaper
men he felt had been too enthu-
Siastic in their search for news of
his family.
The Lindbergh'S famous trip to
the Orient last year attracted
worldwide attention. During that
trip their boy was left in the care
of the grandparents at the North