The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-11
No Further Questions to Be
Answered for Reporters,
Is EdiCt.
TWO BULLETINS DAILY
Doubt on 'ThoroughneSS' of
Investigation Leads to
New Order.
BY HARRY FERGUSON.

TRENTON, N. j., March 11.-Ncv
Jersey state police, in charge Of
the Lindbergh kidnapping investiga-
ton, today clamped a strict censor
ship on all news of the progress Of
the hunt for the baby and Grimm.
ais.
Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf
commanding the police, announced
that hereafter no questions by the
newSpapermen would be answered.
Instead, he said, the police would
issue two bulletins daily, one at K
a. m. and one at II p. m, which lie
said would contain all the news the
police wished to be made known
Supplementary bulletins were
promised "the moment anything
happens"
Heretofore, the police had received
questions at four hour intervals ex-
cept between midnight and 8 O'Clock
a. m. replies to many of these hac
been evasive, or had been the
words:
mo answer" or "the police have
no knowledge of that"
QUESTIONABLE Causes Break
The decision of the state police
was announced in response to a
QUESTIONABLE which included ques-
lions suggesting doubt as to the
thoroughness of the police investi-
cation, Or the intelligence service. >
The decision was made because
the police thought too much time
that should be devoted to advance
ment of the work was required fol-
answering the newspaper mems
Questions, Schwartzkopf said.
Some Of the questions, newspaper
men admitted, seemed to have little
basis for the asking.
However, they pointed out here
today, the questions were the result
OF lack of complete frankness or
the part of police, necessary or moi
and most of them were question:
asked by the public as result d
day-to-day developments in the in
vestigation.
Asked to Explain Search
Among the questions which
brought forward the complete cen
Sorship edict were:
AS being one of the three main
possibilities explaining the kidnap.
ing and in view of many contra
dictory answers, we would like def
mite information as to the search
conducted by state police in the
immediate vicinity of the Lindbergh
home. We consider these especi.
ally important in the light of the
possibility that the baby might have
been abandoned at any hour since
the kidnapping and might now be
alive in some remote spot in the
wilderness, abandoned IS the result
OF the fright of the kidnapers.
Please tell us in detail what steps
police took to obtain bloodhounds
before finding, as previously an
nounced, none were available. mas
much as we are given to under
stand by dog authorities that 100
or more good bloodhounds could
nave been made available at Hope
well within two hours after the kid
MAPPING was reported.
Why Not Use BIoodhounds?
Is it the opinion of police au-
thorities that bloodhounds would
not be able to trace The footprints
OF the kidnaperS within a few hours
after the KIDNAPPING?
In case the answer to these cues
lions is the usual no answer" we
wish to point out that these mat
tiers do not concern. the personal
affairs of the Lindberghs and do
not concern future police attempts
to contact the kidnapers or recover
the baby, but are merely to estab-
lish whether thorough humanita-
rlan effort has been made to dis
cover whether the baby might have
been abandoned in the vicinity of
the Lindbergh home. If the an
Swer to the previous questions is
mo answer" please explain why
such an answer is made.
Has Baby Been Abandoned
1t is our information that there
are several thousand acres of wild
and wooded land surrounding the
Lindbergh home. A checkup by re-
porters Thursday indicated some
homes within a short walking dis
lance of the estate have not yet
been visited by police. Again
pointing out the possibility that the
baby might have been abandoned
in this area we wish to know:
How many acres of land around
the Lindbergh home have been
thoroughly searched?
How many policemen took part
in the search?
Please name the days upon which
the search was conducted, how
many acres searched each day.
Do the state police feel COM
pletely satisfied that the baby has
not been abandoned in the area of
the Lindbergh home, and, if ..
how do they arrive at that con-
clusion?
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