The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-19
RED HEADED SAILOR
TAKEN TO L|NDDERGH
ESTATE BY OFFICERS
Police Believe Nurses Suitor
May UnwittingIy Helped
Kidnapers
ANOTHER SUSPECT IS HELD
Man Arrested at South Plain.
field After Alleged At
tempt to Kidnap

Henry (Red johnson, sailor sutton
Of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby's
nurse, was led about the Lindbergh
estate by detectives Saturday to de-
termine just how much he knew
about the house and grounds.
He was not under arrest in con-
nection with the kidnapping, police
reiterated, but detectives wanted to
learn, how much he knew about the
estate In their efforts to discover
whether he might have been an un-
whiting aid to the kidnapers.
While johnson was being examin-
ed at the Lindbergh home another
man was arrested at South Plainfield
after an attempted kidnapping or
burglary at Highland Park, about 20
miles away.
This man, who gave his name as
George Maiden, was arrested after a
grounds-keeper at the estate of j.
Seward johnson, wealthy surgical
dressings manufacturer, had shot at
a man climbing up to the Johnson
nursery.
Child's Nurse Screams
A nurse attracted the grounds keep
er's attention when she screamed as
ladder was placed against the win
dow sill of the room where she slept
with the Johnsons' infant son. Shots
were exchanged and the interloper
fled. Maiden was arrested and iden-
tilted by both nurse and grounds
keeper.
He was finger printed and the
prints brought at once to Hopewell
because of the similarity Of the
methods of~the Lindbergh baby kid
naper and the man at the johnson
home, both of whom raised ladders
to nursery windows.
johnson was never completely alb
solved of connection with the Lind
bergh case. Your attention is invited
to former bulletins" was all that H.
Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the
state police, would say several hours
afterward.
Earlier he had said the police
wanted to re-check some Of the SAL
lor's statements.
Deckhand for Lamont
johnson. formerly a deckhand on
Thomas w. Lannon'S yacht, entered
the police investigation a few days
after Charles Augustus Lindbergh,
Jr., was stolen from his crib March
l. Detectives, have asserted repeated
ly there was no evidence to link him
with the abduction.
He left his Englewood boarding
house the day after the kidnapping
and went in his automobile to Hart
ford, Conn. The night before he had
a date" to meet Miss Cow, but the
engagement was broken. Instead Of
meeting her, he said, he telephoned
her at Hopewell about the time the
kidnapers were committing their
crime.
Police have explained they were
holding him for deportation because
he came here from Sweden illegally.
Have New Theory
A new theory set detectives to work
Friday. It Is that the abductorS fool
ed pursuit by substituting the child
for another.
The police think 1t possible they
took the child to family which al
ready had one of the same age. The
custodians Of the Lindbergh infant
would then have to send their own
child away.
That is why two detectives from
Newark were In Washington Friday
night checking passport records on
the chance the child may have been
sent to foreign country.
The detectives also visited Balti-
more on tip the custodians' real
child may have been sent to Europe
on the Baltimore mail liner City of
Baltimore. which departed for Havre
the day after the kidnapping. Ten
children were on the ship, line off,
Gals said, and one was about the
Lindbergh baby's age.
Pursuit Goes On
Meanwhile the pursuit of countless
leads and tips went on. An alarm
was sent out when some one report
ed he saw three men drive through
Keyport, N. j., with a hole punched
box from which cries Of a baby came.
In Pocatello, Idaho. Ignace Blaus-
tein recanted his story that he drove
the automobile for the kidnapers.
Two servants who quit their jobs
in Franklin Park, N. j.. the day after
the kidnapping were found and ex-
planned their movements satisfactor-
lily. The servants, Paul and Katie
Engstenberg. had gone to new posts
in Bryn Mawr. Pa.