The Washington times., 1932-03-26
STICKS To TALE
IN MIDNIGHT
CONFERENCE
Declares Life in Danger and
DiCkerS for Immunity
Before Talking
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(IontEnued from rage ~
Shivering in the depths of huge
coat which couldn't keep out the
numbing chillness of a Sourland
Mountain wind.
Fogarty and the rum runner
talked for Is minutes alone in
the comparative warmth of the
car. The story Fogarty heard
was substantially the same one
the rum runner previously told to
the International News Service.
(TThiS was printed exclusively yes
terday in The Washington TimesO
RetellS Experience
He had set off early at a. m.
Wednesday, March 2. That after
noon he was about 80 miles off
Scotland Light, trying to contact
a schooner He told Fogarty of
meeting with high-riding
schooner apparently without cargo
. and Of a surly supercargo, who
ordered him away from the ship
In no uncertain terms. This man
was later identified by him as
one of three suspects for whom
the police of New Jersey, New
York City and Detroit are look
ing.
Less than an hour later. he
sighted a cabin cruiser with a
member of the crew waving coat
in an apparent signal of distress.
investigation proved that the
cruisers compass had gone bad
and the informer was asked If he
would sell his compass for S1O0
He refused, but offered to fix
the compass belonging to the
white and green cruiser. It was
at this point that he heard
babys cry. and then with a snarl
of anger, the man who had waved
the coat ordered him to shove
away. There we're three men in
tie crew and the rum runner
unhesitatingly identified Harry
Flelscher as one of them.
All this he told to Fogarty as
the two sat in the back seat of
the car. Fogarty heard his story
IN silence. He climbed out of the
car, said good night, and walked
into the Lindbergh home. He
would tell his story to the Colonel
For a long while, it was said,
Schwarzkopf has believed that
the child was being held on a
boat of some kind. Perhaps no.
100000 people are consciously or
SubconSciously looking for the
child, and only on the sea would
the kidnapers be safe from detec-
tion.
For a long time, too, the
authorities have been anxious to
question Harry Fleischer and
Able Wagner, and police of every
city in the United States have
been looking for them.
The rum runner is the first to
forge a definite link in the chain
which some day may bring
Fleischer and Wagner into the
police net. He sWears that one
of the men or the cabin cruiser
was Fleischer and he positively
identified another as a man police
have been looking for.
Adamant on Story
The rum runner, obviously re-
lieved that his story had been
told to some one in authority,
once more fell prey to the fears
of one who has interfered with
the underworld. He said:
81 don't know whether Fog
arty believed me ur not. I'm
on the level with this, though.
I have nothing to gain by tell
ing it. If those mObsterS ever
know who l am. they'll out the
finger on me, all right. l don't
know FIeiScher. Never saw him
until that day, but l knew that
was Fleischer I saw on that
cabin cruiser. That baby is
still on that boat or has been
transferred to a schooner.
Colonel Schwarzkopf refused to
comment on the story but it is
known that he Immediately got
in touch with the Coast Guard,
and today they will scout The
Atlantic Highlands, Chesapeake
Bay, and every other possible
place of refuge that may be act
ing as a harbor for the kidnaperS
and their precious cargo.