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tho kidnapping. This flannel shirt
had IN embroidered scall0ped edge
on II. These articles were taken
back to tho scene and compared
with the clothing found on the
body as that Of the Lindbergh
baby.
"The statement OF William Allen
and Orville Wilson says that the
body was pretty well concealed by
leaves, dirt and brush. Tho skull
had a hole In II about the size Of
q quarter Just above the Forehead.
The body was lying In q depression,
as though an attempt had been
maded to bury It face down.
Mercer county physician, DR.
Charles II. Mitchell, ana tho county
coroner, Walter swayze, were I'm.
mediately called In"
Not until no had finished his
statement would Schwarzkopf per.
NIT the doors to DO opened and
the reporters to depart, although
they had tried to dash away AZ soon
as no said tho body had been
found. In q few minutes tho news
was flashed to u shocked world. /.
Discovery OF tho body revealed
the cruelty practisod on Colonel
Lindbergh when tho kldnapers, or
persons pretending to be the KID
napers, extorted $4,000 from him
for O child already dead.
It revealed, too, tho futillty Of
the great hunt that has been goin2
on. While searchors hunted the
Souriand Hills, supposedly comb.
Ing" every foot and undoubtedly
passing along tho road within ~
feet OF the body, II lay undecided
In the bushes.
While the cold rains OF Marcf
and April beat down on the stillet
form, false hopes were being
at the time looked plausible. Co
Lindbergh, through his intermedi
aries, was negotiating with the sup
posed kidnapers and hopefully pay
Ing over his $4,000 to DO vilei!
tricked.
Tho public watched tho "Jafsie'
notes published In the papers b.
DIR John II. Condor, the eolonel'
intermediary; read, "The money 4
ready; and thrilled with hope
read later, "Have you crossed mo
Please better directions" and thei
learned that the money had beeI
paid when the numbers OF the bill
were broadcast to the world.
4 All the time, Lindbergh wa
working unttringly, following ever
hopeful clue, making flying trips I
Connecticut Sound, over Lon
Island waters and to Virginia, hop
Ing Condor and Curtis had turne,
up something real.
with the baby dead, Mrs Edwar
ID. Mclean, OF Washington, wa
paying over to CASTOR II. Means, 4
q generous effort TO help, 10000
which Ii yet to be recovered.
Il Prominent citizens, lawyers, edti
Gators and public officials, coop
Grated In tho most amazing degre
in the great hunt. The pres
called off its men from the Lind
bergh estate ut the colopel's re
quest, and tried not to publish new
that would hinder tho progress Q
Those who tried to help range
from Or John urier Hibben, pres
dent OF Princeton university, TO Gal
vatore Hpitaio, New York rackt
teer. A retired rear admiral, Gu
IN. Burrage, and the dean OF 0
Episcopal cathedral, the Rev ]
hopes II Norfolk, but tai spparen d
, also were duped or on false traj
II RE fact that Col Lindbergh wa
sufficiently convinced OF the autf
enticity Of one gang 70 pay 800
900 led. 70 the superstition thi
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hope and the hope of world that the baby would be
turned safe and alive Lndbergh advised at and
landed Cape May, N j. few hours later and arrived
home to console his grievng wife.
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Hill People
Were Accused

o0O 49, .HN
trail the day after the baby was
'This neishborhood should have
been searched more carefully o
week ago. But the way things are
now, we're afraid to 60 searching
through places alone. People here.
abouts are willing to guide and
help X tho police ask them"
THAT was on March ~. The
baby was kidnapped the night Of
March 1. At the time Mrs Bush
offered her comment, search OF
cabins, shacks, and tumble.down
homes In the hills had Just got un-
der way, directed by state police.
commanded by Colonel II. Norman
schwarzkopf.
Newspapers and private indivi.
duals had suggested prior to that
day that the troopers call on le-
gionnaires and others to help them
"beat the bush' over the entire
territory. They meant that men
should spread over every BIT Of tho
land tramp their way over = Sec
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tor at q time, and search thor
oughly, even as pioneer infantry
In the World war Cleaned up"
evacuated territory to remove dan.
gerous ammunition left behind.
Troopers did search from cabin
TO cabin over certain area. They
did search thoroughly patches or
land ana timber within two or
three miles Of the Lindbergh homo,
looking for new m"de graves, or
any trace Of the child.
They did not seu.s.i Thoroughly
over the section In which the
baby's skeleton was found yester.
day. They caused to DO placed
through that section, however,
private telephone lines whose wires
lay within rs feet OF the mutilated
body OF the son OF tho Lindberghs.
Llndbergh's very first thought
following his discovery that the
child was missing was to search
around his home. He spent q half.
| hour, wandering with q hashlight
around his estate, before even call
| Ing the police into the case.
| And the natives, those who
would talk, held the same Idea. An
an example OF their sentiment.
these quotations from interviews
published at that time are SUBJ
mitted:
Red-bearded 10. 8. whitehead
"Thoro are hundreds OF shack,
and trappers' shelters In these
mountains. Anyone knowing the
region could hide out for weeks
without being found. whoever took
that baby Ia right close BY"
Oscar Bush, 20, and Jamoi
Wyck0ff, 40, his uncle, sourland
trappers who know every foot oil
the hills gave their aid TO state pc.
lice the day following tho kidnap.
Ing. Tho backw0odsmen followed
tho faint trail left by the abductori
and ut the end, concluded:
1.-THE baby's not far off. Hell
somewhere right around. All ono
would need 70 do ID stumble on II.
| An Official Of the Now Jerse,
state department OF institution
and agencies, connected with thu
state asylum for epileptics ut Skill.
man, o few miles from IIopeweli
said there was q possibility tn,
baby had been kidnapped by som,
OF the hillfolk or moonshiners.
i These people," he pointed out
have little contact with tho out
side world, nor do they want any
Furthermore, they DO not welcome
strangers. The establishment o
. | Colonel Lindbergh's home In tn
i BourIands has broken down In
isolation they enjoyed heretofors
for Il has brought sightseers Q
various sorts.
"The hill jewellers are similar Il
the poor whites OF the Cumber
j lands and the peuntain ranges 9
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Horrible And Brutal
Killing Of Baby

hone and the hone of the world that the baby would be
turned safe and alive Lndbergh advised at sea and
landed at Cape May, N j. few hours later ana arrived
home to console his grievng wife.
PROSECUTORS LINE UP FORCES
Meanwhile the prosecutors who will present the peo
nles charge against kidnapers and when they are
caught prepared their Attorney General william A..
Stevens who under New Jersey law supersede county
prosecutors refused to he planned to take charge or
merely assist the officials Of HunterdOn county, where the
baby kidnapped and of Mercer county where the D0dy
found Stevens superseded these ocas III the
exist at that time between the county ana inc
state police.
LIKE BLOODHOUNDs ON TRAIL
The Jersey police, turned loose like bloodhounds
trail after being almost chained previously 70 avoid ham
pcrng private negotiations on the scent OF what tney
believed to be kidnapping band that might have had hand
in In this terrible tragedy. . - .
where in the greatest manhun launched In this nation
behind the Of the state police there were the
powers Of metropolitan county, state national ana inefna
tionaI police addition there ctizenry aroused Us
never before by this inhuman crime
STILL QUESTION DIR CONDOR
Polcec onnued questioning DR. Condor, who delivered
the $4,000 10 the supposed kidnapers and Curtis
Norfolk boat builder The state police had already ODtanea
clues which they considered valuable and which nvest
gators began running before the questioning was
The decomposed and muated body Of the worlds most
pubczed baby found in thcket yesterday afternoon up
parenty has been there since soon after the KIDNAPPING
FIND BURLAP BAG AT SCENE
Al day break detachment of state police went over the
rond surrounding the spot where the body was found
They examined the terrain minute few feet from wnere
the body law they found burap bag beneath some rocks
This was the only find and II was taken to the Lndbergn
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the south. They live In shacks,
and have q certain cunning that 10
greater than that OF the average
person"
DR. George Van Neste. seventy.
year-old doctor OF Hopewell, said
six days after the kidnapping, II be.
iieve tho child Ii alive and ! don't
think he In far away. In fact, no
might BIO only o mile or " away"
Mrs Matilda Morrison, widow Of
q doctor mysteriously murdered IN
the same sourland hills twenty
years ago, said:
"The child's In these hills. IL
they look they'll find II right here"
Antonio Crowlewsky, "pig WON.
an" and journeymanf butcher OF
Zion, q small hamlet two miles
from tho Lindbergh home. told u
fantastic story week after the
KIDNAPPING TO the effect that chill
people are mixed UP In the kid
naping."
"The actual ones what stole tho
baby are right here In these here
hills" the woman butcher said.
"There are four Of them. Two
women and two mon. They tried
to get me into the kidnapping ring"
Forrest Davis, veteran reporter
of the New York World Telegram
assigned to tho case from the
' II shoyid not DO surprised Il
the baby were found or produced
from q dwelling within ten miles
OF the Lindbergh home. The theft
Of the Lindbergh baby, II seems TO
me. must have been executed by
q ry-man--possibiy resi-
dent Of the bleak sourlands noun.
tain country of New Jersey.
Thoy are searching. the woods
again to-day. these hiil-foik. ~
CAPTAIN Charles Williamson, chief
OF police ut Hopewell. announced
that 1--WE have three very excellent
clues TO the perpetrators OF this
dastardly crime. While, they lead
In three distinct directions, we
hope to have something definite
4 within tho ncxt day or so."
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being the kidnapers and immediate
steps will be taken and are being
taken TO accomplish their arrest.
Emergency telephones for this case
are lying on the ground whore they
wero placed by. telephone men
within rs feet from whore tho
body was found"
"Mrs Morrow (Mrs Lind bergh's
mother) and Mrs Lindborgh were
at the Hopewell house when II be.
came known that tho body found
| to-day was that Of the Lindbergh
child. Col Lindbergh wng immedi-
ately communicated with and is on
his way to Hopewell now"
Tho medical report tended to
confirm the theory that tho baby
had been killed almost Immediately
Cow had identified the body at tho
back door to avoid large crowd,
Dr. Mitchell said:
"Tho death could have been
caused by q bullet, by the child
having been banged against q tree,
hit by an automobile or hit with q
club or other instrument. In any
event, death was caused by q frac-
tured skull. The baby had been
dead about two months. ! could
not say what day no died, because
Perforated faster than * It had
been In q receptacle"
rho tragic elimination of the
kidnapping, ending weeks Of fran.
tic search throughout the United
States, Europe and Central Amer.
len, cnme with smashing sudden.
ness late In the afternoon. Report.
ers who for weary weeks have
kept vigil at Trenton and Hopewel
were summoned TO the Lindbergh
homo by Colonel Schwarzkopf.
They came ut breakneck speed
over the muddy country roads ir
q dismal rain and gathered In thu
Lindbergh garage. The delay
seemed endless before all hat
gathered and Schwarzkopf ordered
tho doors locked. Then no made
his statement, IN follows:
I'VE have to announce that ap'
parently the body Of the Lindbergi
baby was found at 3:15 y m, to-
day by william Allen, negro o.
Trenton, who was riding on tn,
Mount Rose road toward Hopewell
"Ie wag riding with Orville vii
son on q truckload Of timber. The!
stopped the truck 10 he couIt
answer call Of nature.
HE went into tho woods for Till
purpose on the Mount Rose Hill
In Mt Rose, N. j., going under |
bush, he lowered his head and a
no raised his head, he saw a skele
ton on the ground. lie says In hi
statement that what he saw was
persons foot on Il. He called bacl
10 Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson ran int,
the woods, saw that II WINS and do
cided to 70 to Hopewell and 10
the police. He notified Chief Vol
who notified these headquarteri
I Inspector Walsh, OF Jersey City
Sgt Moffatt, OF the Newark police
Lieut. Kenton OF the New Jerse
state police. and q number Of othe
detectives Immediately went to tn
} scene.
"They reported finding the bod
of q child estimated to DO betweel
] n year and half and two year
; old, bad state Of decomposition
. but having blond hair and wear
, ing what appeared to be an under
. shirt and q flannel band aroun
! the body.
mot satisfied with this a. iden
. tifioation. men were sent back int
. Hopeweli TO the Lindbergh estat
TO get samples OF the undershif
! the baby wore and OF the flame
{ shirt the baby had on the night 9
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BY BATES RANEY
IInitad IBrpsa Staff COrreHDOndeI

Hopewell, N. j., May i3.--(UP)
The forces OF society were set
loose to-day IN full fury to run
down the murderers Of tho Lind.
bergh baby, slain inhumanly al
most within sigh Of the homo from
which he was stolen March l..
And the first move OF the law
was to question two negotlators
who have figured prominently IN
the case--Dr John y. Condor, the
"Jafsie OF the Want Ads, and
John II. Curtis, Norfolk boat man
ufacturer.
Colonel II. Norman Schwarzkopf
announced that the two were to be
turned over TO prosecuting authori.
ties to-day after state police, OF
whom he IL the commander. con-
cluded their questioning.
The colonel made II clear the
two men were not under arrest but
were 10 assist Prosecutor Erwin
Marshall Of Mercer county In his
investigator.
Moves OF these and others at
tempting TO find the kidnaperf
have been unhampered by police
up 20 now--in accordance with 70.
quests by the stricken father and
mother OF the baby. II was be.
iieyed that police now would de-
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JOINT MEETING OF
CLUBS AT l'IiE ELTON
NEXT THURSDAY

The Lions. .I<iwanis, Rotary, Ga
vitan and Quota Service clubs WI!
: attend. ths Sn %sssn e g g Ssd
Thursday yy.s evening Ia q The he. Hot, no E
land nu Oregon VIII ID. deliver Dr.. e. 80, "a
MOVING pictures . q his trAys.<
spoken before the Lions. ana Ho<
tary clubs before.
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home.

Hopewell, N. j.. May lS--tU. 70
--Progecutor Erwin y. Marshall or
Mercer County to-day declared he
mad evidence convincing him that
the men who took $4,000 ransom
from DIR John r. Condor, (Jafsie),
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were the men who KIDNAPPED ana
later killed Charles Augustus Lind
bergh, Jr.
Marshall said the men who re.
celved the ransom money from
Condor had provided PROOF TO
Llndbergh and Condor that they
we're the actual kidnapers md were
in possession Of the baby. TINS
proof, Marshall revealed for the
first time, was the sleeping CUR
ment the baby wore when he was
stolen from his nursery. -.
Condor, according. TO MARSHALL
received from the kidnapers three
safety pins Of peculiar make, when
ne iirst asked for proof, Lindbergh
looked nj them, thought they were
those used on his child's garments
but could not DO sure because
while they were OF u peculiar type,
they stlll were widely used.
Acting on Lindbergh's instruc-
tlons, Condor asked for further
proof and received the sleeping
garment. II bore the manufacture
or's serial number on lapel on tho
collar. Through this number Lind
bergh traced II to the store where
the baby's clothes had been pur-
chased. He then felt Condor wah
In contact with the kidnapers and
the $4,000 was paid out.
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world searched for trace OF the
missing Indbce abductor the body the murdered
law q
than Ave miles from the lndbcreh
aso Indicated on the np)
Hndbergh home, the kdnapc
travelled into Mt Rose and then
through soutsbug The
cOmbed
the capital OF Trenton where inc
relation 10
kidnapping and of the babys remains
Evening star., 1932-09-14
Marine Corps Orders

First Lieut.. Edgar G. Kirkpatrick,
orders to Paris Island, 8. c., modified
to Boston.
First Lieut.. Francis B. Loomis, de-
tached San Diego, Calf, to Asiatie
station via the Army transport sched-
uled to sail from San Francisco on or
about September 81.
First Lieut.. James A. Stuart, on or
about September 30 detached Norfolk,
Va. to Lakehurst, N. j.
The following officers detached sta
tions indicated to Department Of the
Pacific via the U. S. S. Henderson,
scheduled to sail from Chinwangtao,
China, on or about September 1s:
Capt. David R. Nimmer, Peiping, China
Capt. John T. Selden, Peiping; Capt
Norman E. True, 4th Regiment, Shang
hal; First Lieut.. Ralph c. Alburger
4th Regiment. Shanghai; First Lieut.
Charles c. Brown, Peiping; First Lieut.
Augustus w. Cockrell, 4th Regiment
Shanghai; First Lieut.. James P. S
Devereux, Peiping; First Lieut. Tilgham
H. Saunders, 4th Regiment, Shanghai;
Chief Marine Gunner Daniel Loomis
Cavite, P. l., and Marine Gunner John
H. Murphy, 4th Regiment, Shanghai.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
HOSPITAL WARNS
AGAINST IMP0STORS
Emergency officials Ask Police
to Investigate Fake
Doctors"

Officials Of Emergency Hospital have
requested police to investigate reports
Of impostors said to have posed as staff
doctors in order to sell tickets to the
public for a benefit" dance, proceeds
from which were to go for hospital
equipment"
A number of persons have complained
to the hospital that they bought tickets
from the impostors, whose method, they
said, was to Introduce themselves over
the telephone as physicians anxious to
sell tickets for the benefit"
Persons agreeing to buy the tickets
were told to have the money ready and
boy would deliver the ticket and ac-
cept payment. The hospital denied any
such benefit" was planned.
Police, cooperating with representa-
tiyes of the Community Chest and the
Better Business Bureau, are endeavoring
to locate the impostors.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
FOSTER CH|LDREN'S
CARE INCREASING.
Labor Department Bureau
Survey Significant Of Trend,
Says Report.

Foster homes are playing an in
creasingiv important part in the care
of the Nations dependent and ne
elected children, it was shown today
in the report of survey by the Chill
dren's Bureau of the Department OF
Labor, which records an increase OF
more than 25 per cent in the monthly
average number of such children cared
for in foster homes between 1929 anc
May. 1882.
The report. based on reports from
SIS agencies in II metropolitan areas
cooperating in the current registra-
ton of social statistics, shows foster
home care has borne the brunt of the
steadily increasing number of children
cared for away from their own family
groups The number of children cared
for in institutions has been relatively
Unchanged during the period covered BY
the survey.
Significant Trends.
"The strongly upward movement in
foster home care and the slight total
change in the number of children in
institutions were significant trends In
reports from all sections of the United
States" the bureau said.
In 1929, the average monthly num-
ber of dependent and neglected chill
dren reported under care in foster
homes was 8,707 The same agencies
reported an average OF 9,54S in 1880
and 1O,354 in 1891 While there was
a wide variation in the relative amount
of change in the use of foster homes
in the IT reporting areas, nearly al
showed significant increase over the
preceding year in 1880 or 1881, and
most of them in both years. Louisville
KY. showed the greatest increases in
both yearS-more than 26 per cent in
1880 and 81 per cent in 1881, while
Springfield. Ill, was the only metro
politan area reporting decline in
both years.
Children Under Care.
Reports on the number of children
cared for in institutions forwarded to
the Children's Bureau by 1872 agencies
in 81 metropolitan areas showed all
average of 1858 children under care
on the last day of the month in 1929.
In 1880, the average was 1859, an
increase of 08 per cent. In 1881, the
average was 13,961, an increase of only
O5 per cent Cleveland and Denver
were the only cities reporting decline
both in 1880 and 1881. Lancaster, Pa,
reported q decline of 81 per cent in
1890 as compared with 1929, but this
was followed by an increase of S5.5 per
cent in 1881. the greatest increase re-
ported by any city in that year.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
GETS 80 DAYS IN JAIL
Man Convicted of Smashing Win.
dow and Making Threats.

Raymond Patterson, 80, colored, 1900
block of Champlain street, was sent to
Jail for 90 days by Police Court Judge
Gus A Schuldt following his convic-
tion on charges of threat and disor-
derly conduct yesterday.
Patterson, police said had been
drinking and broke window in a res
taurant in the 100 block of Kalorama
road Sunday, and when the proprietor
went outside after him Patterson is
said to have cursed and threatened him
A whale 90 feet long has been found
dead in Grand Haven Bay, Gurnsey
England
Evening star., 1932-09-14
Card Party September %.

CAPITOL HEIGHTS. Md. September
"A (SpeciaD The Ladies' Auxiliary OF
the Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire
Department will give card party Sep
tember %, at o'clock, in Ffremen S
Hail. here. Mrs. Irene A. Conner is
chairman Of the Arrangements Com
naittee and IS assisted by MRS. William
Simmons
Evening star., 1932-09-14
Down to Two Pairs
Of Socks, Rail Head
Sees Boom Coming
By the Associated Press.

by tne ASS6cidteo Tless'
OMAHA. Nebr., September IL.
"A railroad president has taken
a look at his socks and finds evi-
dence which, he says, convinccs
him that a new day Is dawning
in America.
He is Patrick H. Joyce Of Chi
cago, president of the Chicago,
Great Western Railroad.
I'm an optimist," he told the
roads board of directors yester-
day. And feel 1 have reason
to know. People have come to
the point where they will have
to buy. Take me, for example.
II have only two pairs of socks
to my name and I used to have
two dozen. I've got to buy some
more"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
GREAT JURIST RESIGNS

1t is source of genuine regret to his
countrymen that Justic Oliver Wendell
Holmes, of the United States Supreme Court,
has been obliged to resign from the bench
which he has adorned for nearly 80 years.
He will be 81 years old on March 8, and in
his letter of resignation he said:
''The time has come when I must bow
to the inevitable"
Justice Holmes was born in Boston, the
SON of the great poet and essayist whose
name he bears He entered the Union Army
after his graduation from Harvard in 1861
and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel
He was thrice wounded in action-in the
breast, in the neck and in the foot
After the war he practiced law and be-
came professor in Harvard law school, later
serving as justice and chief justice of the
Massachusetts, Supreme Court for more than
20 years, until his elevation to the United
States Supreme Court in 1902. He has writ
ten much and has delivered many lectures
on legal subjects.
In spite of his age, Justice Holmes fine
intellect is unimpaired, but physically infrm-
tiles have made it necessary for him to re-
tire Thus passes from the active stage a
great man, great jurist, and a great Amer
lean. May he enjoy his well earned rest in
comfort and serenity.