The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-05
COLONEL is using
PLANE IN ATTEMPT
TO GET baby BACK
Major SchoeffeI Spends Night
in London, Does Not Visit
Nurses Mother
vIRGINIAN CONTINUES BUSY
Indy and Colonel Breckenridge
Make Hop Over Martha's
Vineyard island

Hopewell, N. j.. April 5.-F)-Col
Charles A. Lindbergh, who won his
fame In the air. is using that same
element In an attempt to get his
stolen baby back.
Optimism permeates the home OF,
Sourland mountain as the head Of
the household comes and goes on
mysterious airplanc Journeys.
Twice in three days he has SCARED
away, apparently seeking a yacht OIL
the Massachusetts coast The trips
are believed to have some unexplaln-
ed connection with rumors that ran
som negotiations are being carried on
with kidnapers who took Charles A
Lindbergh, q months old, from his
crib March l.
taking a personal hand In the
hunt, embodied In more mystery every
day. he has appealed for freedom
from questioning about his move
ments.
"Col. Lindbergh feels that under
existing circumstances he should be
privileged to move without the IN
cumbrance of either check-up or &C.
counting" said police statement.
Drives Own Auto
Driving his own car, the flying COL
onel slipped into his estate Monday
midnight after his second airplane
tourney. About $3.50 p. m. Monday
he and his closest friend, Col. Henry
Breckenridge, climbed over a back
fence at Newark airport and spec
away in borrowed plane capable Of
100 miles an hour. .
Later In the afternoon q plane
identified by its number as the craft
carrying Lindbergh was seen cruising
over Narthas Vineyard Island. II
was In this vicinity also that Col
Lindbergn was reported seen flying
Sunday, with three other men. Resi-
dents of the island said the four had
inquired for small yacht. Sallie.
When Lindbergll and Breckenridge
started their flight Monday. they
carried suitcase and blanket
Many conjectures arose as to the rea-
son for this. but none was verified.
DR.. John Grier Hibben. president
of Princeton university. who called
at the Lindbergh home. with his wife
said an "air of optimism" prevailed
Mrs. Hibben said Mrs. Lindbergh was
bearing up we'll.
Curtis Away from Home
John Hughes Curtis, one Of three
Norfolk. Va, intermediates who be-
lieve they have established contact
with the kidnapers, was away from
his home on another mysterious jour-
lac
There were reports. unconfirmed
that he also had headed for Martha &
Vineyard.
Developments in the police hunt In
this country were absent, so far as
the public was informed. In Great
Britain Mai. Charles H. Schoeffel OF
the New Jersey police spent Monday
night in London and left his hotel
Tuesday for an unannounced destin-
alton. He had planned Monday to
90 to Glasgow. In that city lives the
mother Of Betty Cow, the Lindbe-gh
baby's nurse. Inasmuch as police
have repeatedly declared they were
satisfied with Miss Cows response to
questioning, this move was another
of the many mysteries In the case.
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf of the
state police in his morning bulletin
said his headquarters had not re-
quested the activities in Martha's
Vineyard, and they ARE probably an
independent investigation by some
other department"
The police, he said, have had no
contact with the kidnapers and have
received no information of any kind
about the return of the baby.