Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-28
LTNDBERGH RETAINS COMPOSURE
WHILE TELLING OF KIDNAPPING

| get a small boat to go out on a
location given on the chart. After
| some delay we got the boat, but we
saw no signs of the Gloucester
| fisherman Curtis described. We
covered all the location except for
a few miles at one end of the
course. Curtis said it was then so
late that the boat had gone to sea. -
Did you make an contact with
any boats?"
we touched one or two small
boats, and they were questioned if
they had seen any boat such as
we were looking for"
Where did you go then?"
I'VE returned to Stonington and
then we returned to New York"
when you arrived in New York
then what happened?'
we went to the Prince George
hotel where Mr.. Curtis carried on
a telephone conversation with q
party whom he claimed was the
wife of Dynamite or Dyn. He said
her name was Hilda. He said that
she had told him Dyn had been on
location the same morning we were
there, but had seen no plane. APP
parently he had expected that we
would come by plane although Cur
It's also said that we might come
by boat. Dyn stated that there
had been some Coast Guard activi-
ties that morning"
Phone Call Made
Lindbergh told of Curtis leading
him first to Cape May, N. j., thence
to New York, to Long Island and
on a sea trip off Block Island, back
to New York, and then to Norfolk
where Dean H. Dobson-Peacock,
Episcopal clergyman and associated
with Curtis as one of the Norfolk
negotiators, entered the melo-
dramatic and tragic tale.
Dobson- Peacock had received a
telephone message calling him to
New York. There he claimed, gang
sters had cornered him in a hotel
room and threatened him unless he
told them about the baby
Curtis told Lindbergh the gang
sters had been kept informed by
John" one of the kidnapers Cur
tis had described and later admit
ted was mythical Curtis told Lind
bergh that John wanted to "sell
out"
What do you mean, Colonel, by
sell out?" Prosecutor Anthony
Hauck asked.
Without a moments hesitation
replied: Il believe I
said yesterday that John favored
selling the baby to the highest bid
ders."
Curtis had held this possibility
in front of Lindbergh.
The Colonel constantly punctu-
ated his testimony with the phrases,
Curtis told me- and information
Curtis claimed to have had"
He said that he had taken the
baby with the German nurse on
board to be on location each morn
ing for an hour or two thereafter
until contact was made" Colonel
Lindbergh continued.
Then what happened?" Hauck
asked.
st decided to drive to Norfolk.
Lieutenant Richard flew down
there. We boarded a boat in an
effort TO make contact
Who was there?"
Mr.. Curtis, Richard, and Ad-
miral Burrage. On boat there was
Captain Lackman and the crew.
Plans Changed
Before boarding the boat Curtis
informed that there had been
change in plans. He told me OF a
strange circumstance in the change
of the meeting place from Winter
Quarter light. He said that Dean
Peacock had received a telephone
call from New York stating that
there we're urgent reasons why the
dean should go to New York.
According to Curtis, the dean went
to New York and came to see Curtis
in the Prince George hotel. Curtis
said he was so tired he fell asleep
but Richard heard the whole story.
It seems that Peacock was met by
some man who took him to the
Cumberland hotel. He said he
found the room occupied by gang
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