Evening star., 1932-03-18
MISSING SERVANTS
LOCATED IN PROBE
|0F BABY KIDNAPPING
Lightfoots' Cook and Butler
to Be Questioned, Police
Announce.
CLUES FROM MEXICO
BEING INVESTIGATED
Possibility Lindbergh Infant Was
Taken Over Line in Plane
Considered.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOPEWELL, N. j., March 18.-Police
at the Lindbergh home announced to-
day that the two Franklin Park serv-
ants who disappeared the day after
the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby
had been located and were to be oues-
toned.
The pair were cook and butler for
the C. Leandro Lightfoots and the cir
cumstances OF their sudden departure
caused the Lightfoots to make report
to police investigating the kidnapping.
They said the servants, known to
them as Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Thornberg,
left at a moments notice with the
statement that Thornberg's mother was
dying in Germany. After they had
gone the Lightfoots missed some rough
wood similar to that used in the ladder
employed by the kidnapers and chisel
like one found beneath the Lindbergh
nursery window.
Chisel Is Found.
The chisel was found at the Lightfoot
home yesterday and it was generally
believed the whole investigation con-
cerning the missing servants had been
dropped as result Of this.
But the official bulletin issued this
morning by H. Norton Schwartzkopf.
superintendent Of State police, revealed
that the investigation was still on and
had already resulted in location Of the
missing car.
1t also disclosed the servants were
known to police by another name than
Thornberg.
Henry johnson (the suitor Of the
babys nurse who was questioned at
length about the kidnapping and who
is now held for immigration officials)
has not been questioned by investiga-
tors from this ofice as to the where
abouts Of Paul Engenstonberg, alias
Thornberg," Schwartzkopf's statement
read.
StilI Checking Story.
"our investigators are still out check
ing ON the story related by Mr.. Light
foot and until such time as they Eeturn
and report their findings it will be I'M
possible to inform you Of anything
definite concerning the Engenstonbergs.
whether or not there is any con-
nection between their sudden departure
and the circumstances Of the kidnapping
is to be determined.
1.-The Engenstonbergs have been To-
Gated and investigators will question
them this morning. As soon as our in
vestigators have heard their story and
inform us of the circumstances we will
communicate information to the press
representatives.
Mexico Clue Followed.
Meanwhile from Mexico City came a
dispatch indicating belief that the kid
napers may possibly have escaped the
country by airplane.
Mexican officials announced that 10
crack secret service operatives were en-
route to the Mexican borders. Eight
were sent to the Mexican-Un United States
line and two to the Guatemalan border.
atrplane movements carefully.
theory that the kidnapers might
have reached Mexico by air before OFF,
cials could stop them led to the order.
The agents are working incognito.
More tenuous "clues" were eliminated
last night. Babies in Trenton, the
Bronx and Creston, Iowa, were investi-
gated and found not to be the Lind
bergh child.
Students Tip Probed.
Schwarzkopf told of a statement by a
student at Princeton preparatory
school that on the day of the kidnapping,
March l, the student saw an automobile
drawn to one side of the Lindbergh
lane. The student said there were lad
ders laid across the tops of the seats,
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