The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-17
Three CLEWS
FOUND WRONG
INL|NDY CASE
ChiSeI Believed Used by
KidnaperS Located by
Its Owner.
IOWA TRIP IS USELESS
Sedan Search Reveals That
Four Men Were Not
Involved in Crime.
BY BATES RANEY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

HOPEWELL, N. j., March II. -
State police today reported new dis
couragement and the blasting of
what had seemed three promising
leads to the kidnapers of Charles
Augustus Lindbergh Jr.
The forenoon bulletin to the press
was entirely negative. Colonel H.
Norman SchWartzkopf, from the
Lindbergh home, tersely acknowl-
EDGED The failure of three more of
the scant stock of leads which po-
lice have unearthed in their nivesti-
cation Of the kidnapping.
G.. Leandro Lightfoot of Frank
lin Park, N. j., reported that he had
found the chisel missing from his
tool chest, which police thought
might have been used by the kid
napers. Colonel Schwartzkopf,
while not definitely abandoning the
evidence offered by Lightfoot, indi-
Gated he did not consider this lead
of great Importance.
Iowa Clew ExplOdes
Lightfoot had reported his two
German servants disappeared the
night of the kidnapping under pecu-
liar circumstances.
The hope that the baby held in
Preston, Ia, might be the missing
Lindbergh baby, was disproved def
nitely by Colonel Schwartzkopf. He
said the LindberghS had received
Geographic descriptions of the Pres
ton baby and it had birthmarks
which the Lindbergh baby does not
have.
The dark blue sedan clew was also
reported as dead trail. Police,
having heard that a sedan with
New York license plates and carry
ing four men had been seen in
suspicious maneuvers at Donnellan
the day before the kidnapping, dis
covered that the car and the men
had been seen there repeatedly
since.
Conceal Her Whereabouts
Three nurses instead of two, as
generally believed, attended the
kidnapped Lindbergh baby, it was re-
vealed today as search continued
for. another fanily'S two servants
who suddenly left their jobs in
Franklin park the day after the
crime.
The name of the third nurse.
until now not mentioned in reports
on the investigation, is Miss
Annette Copin, Union City, N. j.
Police declined to say where Miss
Copin is, but said she had been
questioned.
The two nurses who have figured
in first reports OF the investigation
are Betty Cow, now living at the
Lindbergh home, and Miss Marie
Cummings of New York, who at
tended Mrs. Anne Morrow Lind
bergh and the baby when Charles
Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was born
twenty months ago.
More Clews Collapse
Other developments or reports in
the investigation we're believed to
be of minor Importance. They in
Guided the collapse of several clews
and another report Of what may
have been kidnapers, as made by
Miss Teresa Derci, a former ste
nographer.
Miss Derci, formerly of New York,
now of Wertsville, near here, has
repeated her story twice to police,
who believe it may be of some i'm
portance.
Late Feb. %, she said, she walked
along Wertsville road, when blue
sedan, with three men as paSsen-
gers, stopped and one of the men
inquired directions to the Lind
bergh home.
Il pointed out the direction and
went my way. Two of the men were
swarthy, the other was a blond"
she said. THE blond was in the
back seat" She believed she would
know the men were she to see them
again, and she was to look over
rogues' gallery pictures.
A report that the Pinkertons de-
tective agency had been called into
the case by Colonel Lindbergh was
denied today at the New York Of
flee of the Pinkertons.