Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-02
LINDBERGH READY
TO PAY RANSOM
FOR HIS BABY
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m. without revealing where they
were bound.
The car disappeared at great
speed, understanding the cars that
sought to follow
Before departing, Lindbergh made
/ it clear that he did not desire to
be photographed He advised that
If attempts to take pictures were
made, he would have to ask the
press delegation to leave. He said,
however, that he desired to cooper
ate with the press in keeping it in
formed of progress.
Baby Lindbergh, blue eyed and
fair haired, was tucked in his crib
at 7:30 p. m. His mother, Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, kissed him good
night after trying vainly to fasten
a loose, warped screen in the nurs-
cry on the second floor.
About 10 p. m. Betty Cow, the
nurSemaid. entered to see that her
charge was sleeping soundly. She
found his crib empty She thought
at first he might have fallen or
crawled out. But a search of the
room soon showed her that he had
been stolen. She screamed to the
Lindberghs.
Police and state troopers were
called.
Lindbergh himself Joined the
search. clad in a black Windbreaker
and a golf cap. He spoke only
briefly with newSpapermen, con-
firming the KIDNAPPING and adding
THAT is all, I'm sorry. You will
realize how feel
Meantime Colonel H. Norman
Schwartzkopf, chief of the state
police, and Maj. Charles H. Schoef-
fel had taken charge of the situ-
alton at the lonely Lindbergh eS-
tate-a rock mansion up a rocky
sideroad, where the Lindberghs had
sought retreat from the attentions
of a curious world.
A stolen car, abandoned in Hill
side, N. j., not far from Newark,
N j., offered some hope as a tracer,
but police and troops who raced
the Jersey, New York and Penn
sylvania roads. halting BUSES, cars
and travellers were at their wits
end for a solution of the mystery.
The abandoned car had been
stolen from Samuel Mandel of
Early last evening such
a car with two men in it stopped
at Princeton, near Hopewell. One
man inquired the way to the Lind
bergh estate.
The abandoned car, headlights
glaring, was found some hours lat
er at Hillside.
Authorities reconstructed tn
crime thus: A man or men, aided
by woman, did the kidnapping.
They apparently planned their
getaway in advance. Then when
the Lindberghs were at dinner, a
man, evidently with his shoes off or
with stockings over his shoes, put
up a sectional ladder, crept into the
through the unlocked
screen window, and seized the child
after leaving the note in the crib.
Dirt marked the footsteps in the
room. Fingerprints on the ladder
were noted to see if they checked
with any in Mandel's car.
The kidnaper, once down the lad
der, made his way across the es-
tate, down the rocky road, about
half way to the main thoroughfare
and was joined there by a woman
aide.
They went to car and dashed
off.
Meantime, troopers assembled
rapidly at the estate. An army of
newspaper folk massed on the
Dark figures flashing lamps
passed like strange spectres through
the wood nearby as they hunted
foot prints and sought other posi-
BILE clues to the man, who had
planned his kidnapping with the
of an insane person.
Teletypes flashed word of the
KIDNAPPING across Jersey, New York
and Pennsylvania. Troops head
quarters of A B C D and E squads
in Pennsylvania we're asked to be
particularly alert.
Philadelphia was early in with a
possible helpful clue. A truck driv-
er related that coming across
Princeton mountain, through the
town of Somerville-not tar from
the Lindbergh home-he had seen
by the road a bundle that looked
like baby" AS reported to Tren-
ton state troop headquarters by As
sistant Superintendent Joseph A.
lie Strang, the driver said he de-
cided the bundle was only a boll'
SO he kept on his way.
The hurried dash by police, how
ever, proven vain, for they found
the bundle was merely a package
Of papers.
An epileptic institution at Skill
man, near Hopewell, was checked
for possible missing inmates, but
no help came from this direction
up to 6 a. m.
Meantime. all available Jersey
troopers not already on the case
were ordered to assembly by 6 a.