The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-15
ANNE'S ACTIONS ON
night OF ABDUCTION
REVEALED
First Act of Colonel Lindbergh
Was to Grab Rifle and
Search ThiCketS
MOTHER BECAME FRANTIC
While Waiting For Indy Earl
Ter, Anne Thought She Had
Heard Automobile
Copyright, 1882, BY The Associated


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New York, March 15.-(R)-When,
two weeks ago, the nurse, Betty Cow,
cried out to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
the baby Is gone," his first act was
to seize his rifle and rush into the
Sourland thickets in search of the
kidnapers.
A detailed account of the house af-
ter Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.,
was snatched from his crib by alb
ductors, was made known Tuesday.
Mrs. Lindbergh, the former Anne
Morrw, was one of the three persons
most closely involved in the events
Of that night. The others were her
husband and the baby's nurse.
Mrs. Lindbergh's story, as learned
from trustworthy source, follows:
Arrived Feb. n
On Saturday afternoon, Feb. n,
she and the baby arrived for q week.
end at Hopewell after three weeks
absence. Although the Lindberghs
had made frequent weekend trips to
Hopewell, they had stayed at the
Morrow home on the previous two
week-ends. Col. Lindbergh arrived
later that day.
In the evening the baby developed
q cold, which grew worse in the next
two days. Wheatley. the butler, was
sent to drug store for medicine and
chatted with the clerk, who said he
had similar illness at home. Later
he went to the store to buy thermo-
meter, telling whoever waited on him
1t was to take child's temperature.
On Tuesday morning. when the
cold still fingered. Mrs. Lindbergh
summoned Betty Cow from Engle-
wood and she arrived about 1870 p.
m. With Betty attending to the child.
the mother went for a walk In the
afternoon. and returned about 5.p. IN.
Sewed Extra Shirt
Betty sewed an extra flannel shirt
for the child and he was put to bed
about 7:30 p. m. When he was tucked
in, Mrs. Lindbergh left his room be-
fore Betty. The window had not
yet been opened and the lights still
were on.
About half an hour later, while
Mrs. Lindbergh was sitting at her
desk in the living room downstairs,
Betty stopped on her way to the
kitchen to say the child had gone to
sleep.
Writing and listening for the sound
Of Col. Lindbergh's car, Mrs. Lind
bergh once thought she heard car
wheels turn on the gravel driveway
outside. She listened and concluded
she was mistaken, for it was not un-
til 20 minutes or so later she heard
his car really approach.
They had dinner, sat by the living
room fire for short time, then Mrs.
Lindbergh went to her room and the
colonel settled down to read. Get
ting ready for bed, Mrs. Lindbergh
found she had left her tooth powder
in the babys bathroom. She went
and got 1t without switching on the
light.
Noticed at 1880
About 1880 Betty ran into her
mistress room and asked If Col.
Lindbergh had taken the baby. Find
ing Mrs. Lindbergh didn't know she
ran out and sought the colonel. The
mother, following, met her husband
coming upstairs.
did you take the baby?" she ask
ed.
The colonel. his face grim, made
no answer. Miss Cow had already
told him the awful news. Running
to a closet. he seized his rifle and
disappeared in the darkness outside
the house.
Dressing frantically. his wife start
ed search Of the house. There was
no sign Of the baby. Once she
fancied she heard cry near a wood
pile, but found 1t must have been
only the wind.