Evening star., 1932-03-07

friend of Miss Betty Cow, nursemaid to
the stolen baby, was still detained early
today. He was arrested in Hartford,
Conn, late last wek when police found
his automobile and milk bottle in it.
He has been questioned at great length
since that time, both by Connecticut
and New Jersey authorities. Today he
was held by Newark police There was
no indication that he had made any
statements involving either himself or
Miss Cow in the kidnapping.
A statement by Johannsen Junge,
husband of a SeamstreSS employed at
the home of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow
(Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, in Engle-
wood, tended to remove Johnson from
suspicion as participant in the kid
naping. Junge said he and johnson
went to the Morrow home last Tuesday
night (the night of the kidnaping)
about 9 o'clock and that johnson tele-
phoned Miss Cow from there When
she told him she could not see him that
night, johnson took Junge for ride
in his newly purchased automobile
They drove around Englewood, Junge
said, until midnight.
The abduction occurred some time be-
tween $50 and 10 pm.
Questioning Not Finished.
When Capt. Lamb of the State police
was asked today what the result of the
questioning of johnson had been, he
replied:
The questioning is not completed as
yet"
Spitale and Bitz are the only 60
betWeens the Lindberghs have singled
out by name. Scores of others, how
ever, have offered their services and
have promised to protect the interests
OF the kidnapers so long as the child
Is returned unharmed. Every church in
Amerlca-ProteStant, Catholic and Jew
lsh-has been designated by Spokesmen
Tor each as ready and anxious to receive
the baby into It's care, with no cues
tions asked
Dudley Field Malone, prominent in
ternational lawyer; Bernarr Macfad-
den publisher; Warden LaweS of Sing
sing Prison; Mrs. Charles Lindbergh,
ST., OF Detroit grandmother of the
baby), and many others nave been
designated as ready to serve as inter
medlarles. Pat Grove. on whom public
attention was focused when tried for
the kidnapping many years ago. was one
OF the trst to proffer his services.
The general advice of those in au-
thorlty as well as Of we'll wishers has
oeen that the return of the baby is of
such transcendent Importance that any
thought OF arrest and conviction of the
KlonaperS Is not now a matter of con-
Slderatlon. The LindberghS them
selves have followed this reasoning
from the outset, and have indicated
thelr Willingness to meet the kidnaperS'
terms, whatever they may be.
Ransom May Not Be Object.
In the absence of definite word that
any communication had been received
from the kidnapers, some authorities to-
cay were considering the possibility that
ransom was not the object of the kid
naping. The history of previous kid
naplngs has been that the adbuctors in
variably communicated with the parents
Immediately. The absence of direct and
reliable word from them within six days
was seen by some as pointing to the
possibility that the abduction was mo-
tlVated solely by desire to posses the
baby and not to obtain ransom
Such theory, however, was predi-
cated upon the absence of definite
knowledge. 1t wa. realized that the
kldnapers may have communicated with
Col. Lindbergh and that both he and
the State police have withheld the in
formation in the interest of the baby's
safety.
Two of the principals in the great
mystery held a brief reunion in the
pantry of their home last night The
young mother came down from the
second floor. where she had spent prac-
tically the whole day with her mother:
and the young father left friends and
officials conferring in front OF the
house about the search for the kid
napers Of the Lindhergh heir.
The famous flyer prepared sandwich
es for the two of them, while his vile
opened a bottle Of milk and filled two
glasses. They remained in the pantry