The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-05-13

mand every scrap OF information as
TO Identity OF persons with whom
Condor and Curtis dealt.
Discovery OF the pitiful, mutt
lated corpse, with the skull crushed
ut Mount Rose Hill yesterday az
ternoon, less than five miles from
the Lindbergh home, Mortified tho
nation. It removed oil barriers to
bringing into play every power
hitherto held In check for fear to
overt police action might bring
harm to the baby.
Authorities made II plain that a
hunt perhaps unprecedentod In
criminal history was already in
progress; that no spot on earth
would be safe for the killers; that
every peace officer In the United
States would be on tho alert, that
foreign police would lend their full
co deportation; that no matter where
the blood-money extorted from the
tortured parents Ia spent, 1t Will
BIO traced.
Colonel Schwarzkopf announced
N gang OF suspects 10 already under
observation and that Immediate
steps will be taken and are being
taken to accomplish their arrest"
This was believed to refer to In.
formation Condor and Curtis might
have.
Police were spurrcd by the al.
most incredible Gallousness Of the
crime, indicating II either had been
committed by mailman for re-
venge, or by criminals 80 do
based as to DO Chased scarcely as
human, or by amateurs frightened
by publicity
The child for which tho world
has been searching for two and q
half months was murdered soon
after tho MISUNDERSTANDING on
the night of the kidnapping itself.
Tho heart OF tho world went out
to the bereaved parents, Col and
Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh--to Mrs
Lindbergh, soon to BIO mother
again, and to her flyer husband,
who has spent tortured days and
nights hunting INCREASINGLY. Their
hldeouB uncertainty was ut last
ended, TO be replaced by mourning.
Mrs hndbergh was ut home
when they brought hor the news.
Her grief and shock were hidden
from the world, although she was
said to DO bearing up bravcly,
within tho closely-guarded Sour
land Hills home the Llndberghs
had built. IL had been planned as q
safe retreat In which to rear their
child and have their homo life.
Colonel Lindbergh was away and
was Immediately summoned homo.
Ho arrived shortly before 2 q. m.
In q motor car reported driven by
Edwin Il. Bruce OF Elmira, N. r.,
and accom- panied by Condor and
Curtis, a close friend OF Bruce.
Tho baby's body was taken to
tho morgue mt Trenton for q post
mortem and police recording. DIR
Charles II. Mitchell, county physi-
clan, said II would be reported
for the timo being ms an "un-
known" baby but would be 70.
leased to the Lindberghs AZ soon
aB they claim II.
Then early to-day DR. Phillip Van
Ingen, Now York physician con-
nectod with the Rockefeller Instl-
tute. who examined the baby two
weeks before the kidnapping, POSI-
lively identified the body.
II was 3:16 p. M, yesterday when
a negro truck driver and his help.
or found the skeleton In clumr
of woods about four and hall
miles south OF tho Llndbcrgh home
near the tiny hamlet Of Mount
Rose.
The baby had boon killed. up.
parently by u blow on tho head
and the corpse secreted In tho
woods about rs feet from the road
An attempt had been made TO con
ceal II In u shallow depression
probably scraped in the under.
brush, and II may have been Gov
cred up until tho wind and rair
of moro than. two months brought
II TO light to be casually discovered
by tho Mortified truckman.
The body lay face down. Thu
sleeping suit was missing. Twt
dirty and rain soaked shirts Ia.
on the sbrivelled and decomposet
form. The stomach band and din
pers were gone.
Remnants OF the child's blond
curly hair clung TO the skull.
The finder, William Allen, raj
back TO his truck, Informed hi
companions and tho police wer'
notified. In an incredibly shcr
time, garments of tho child wer'
brought from the Lindbergh hom'
and found TO matcfs perfectly.
rho Identification was completed
more fully later. The child In.
eight teeth, the toes overlapped
and other physical characteristic
convinced Mrs Lindbergh and tn,
chiId's nurse. Betty Cow, that
was Charles, Jr.
After announcing the finding o
the body to the press, Col Schwarz
kopf issued the following state
ment:--
"As long as there WINS u possibili
ty OF the baby being alive, tn
police have been proceeding with
certain amount OF suppressed nc
tivity In order not TO interfere witt
any negotiations that might 70
suit In the safe return OF the baby
Now that the body Of the bah
has been found, every possible OF
fort will be used and oil mel
necessary will Immediately exer
else every possible effort 10 &C
compIish tho arrest OF the kidnap
ers and murderers.
I'VE have had under suspicion
Ia group Of persons suspected 9