The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-09
WILD RUMORS
ABOUT CH|LD'S
RETURN FALSE
Kidnap Victim Not at Home
of MorrOWS or Filler,
Police Say Definitely.
BY BATES RANEY
United Press STAFF Correspondent

HOPEWELL, N. j., March
9.-ProgresS, reported by po-
lice Tuesday night for the
first time in the Lindbergh
kidnapping case, is continuing,
according to official announce
ment today.
rs the progress reported late
Tuesday continuing?" the Lind
bergh police headquarters was asked
in this afternoons press conference,
and the answer was in the afirma-
tive.
To this was added, however, word
that there is nothing definite at
this time
The baby is not in the Lindbergh
home here or in the home of its
grandmother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow
at Englewood, it was stated def
nitely.
Return Rumors Are Denied
The latter word set at rest rumors
Of return Of the child, though there
still prevailed an atmosphere of
hope for success.
A published report quoting Mayor
James M, Curley of Boston as say
ing he had learned authoritatively
that the Lindbergh baby was re-
stored to its parents Sunday night
was denied at the mayors office in
Boston today.
THE reporter who wrote that
story must have misunderstood the
mayor" Curley spokesman said.
Mayor Curley, in talking with the
reporter, merely mentioned what
another newspaper man had told
him.
This was to the effect a fellow
who described himself as New
York banker appeared at the federal
building here Tuesday and said the
Lindbergh baby had been returned
home Sunday night"
Mountain Country Searched
Questions of reporters at Hopewell
under the press conference arrange
ment, are submitted in writing at
state police headquarters in Trenton
and sent to the officer in charge at
the Lindbergh estate.
A Lindbergh representative has
an opportunity to see the questions
and answers, before they are given
the public.
Meantime, the mountain country
behind the Lindbergh estate was
searched anew for traces of the
baby.
Reports that the child had been
found, was about to be found, and
even that it had come to harm
we're spread, but with no tangible
basis.
The basis for the new outburst of
unconfrmed stories, some of them
too fantastic for dissemination, Law
apparently in the fact that hope
still ruled in the Lindbergh home,
and the Lindberghs were still very
active in seeking restoration Of the
baby
Secret Errands Reported
Colonel Lindbergh himself was
long on the private telephone to-
day.
His friend and trusted adviser.
Colonel Henry Breckenridge, bad
been on secret errands, and the
authorities for the first time talked
Of progress
Meantime, a search through the
hills was made again. This was in
part to get further clews as to
the place where the ladder was
made by which the kidnapers
entered the nursery; and likewise
to check up reports that the baby
might be in that territory.
Connecticut Clew Fails
Some of the Hill folk, cold to
strangers and anxious to keep aloof,
were said to have resented" the
intrusion" of the Lindberghs in
settling hereabouts.
Such a feeling, it was suggested,
might have had bearing on the
kidnapping.
Authorities at New Haven, Conn,
lost interest today in the story of
Mrs. Victoria Burba of Colchester,
who told police she heard Tony
Meslo offer last spring to finance
kidnapping Of the Lindbergh baby.