Evening star., 1932-05-19
MYSTERIOUS AUTOS.
IN KIDNAPPING HUNT.
Many Green Cars Figure in
Case, All Proving Worth
0 less Clues.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 19-Throughout
the Investigation of the Lindbergh baby
kidnapping there has passed a procession
of mysterious automobiles.
Many of them were vaguely described,
but among them we're at least two green
closed cars. each in its turn definitely
identified with the case, and each later
eliminated .5
A confidential bulletin sent out on
the police alarm system March l, few
minutes after Col. Lindbergh reported
his son missing, said the baby had been
spirited away in a dark green sedan.
The particular car described IN the
message was later eliminated, but the
hunt for a green sedan was not
abandoned.
A green coupe figured in the arrest
at Hartford, Conn, March 4, OF Henry
.(Red) johnson, Betty Cows friend,
who has since been cleared.
Automobiles Reported.
Chronologically, the various automo-
biles appeared in the following order;
March Police confidential message
stated the baby was taken away in
dark green sedan with New Jersey
license number A-1153. A dark green
SGQdn WIFI lIldI AAeAA
been stolen from Herbert w. Allen,
IEargate. N. j., was found several hours
later abandoned in Atlantic City.
March 2 - julius Goldberg, New
Brunswick, N. J., told police he had
seen an automobile containing three
men and a crying baby on highway No
"a between New Brunswick and New
ark about O'Clock that morning. He
gave part of the license number as
"3K- -35-dash- -dash-NY."
March PA blue sedan. with New
York license, 3K-35-39, stolen March
/, from S. Mandell, Brooklyn, was founc
IN Hillside, N. j. It was eliminated
after Mandell said a strong odor, be-
Iieyed at first to be chloroform, came
from some perfume spilled in the back
seat.
March PA Miss Keating of Pen
rinpton. N. j., near Hopewell. 1dentt-
fed from pictures in the Newark rogues
gallery several men in an automooile
She said had asked her the way to the
Lindbergh home on February 26.
March 4-Henry IRed) johnson was
picked up in Hartford by Connecticut
authorities, who said they wanted to
know how he happened to be driving
a green coupe with milk bottle IN the
rumble seat.
March "a toll collector told police
two men, a woman and baby had
crossed in a green coupe from Perth
Arnboy. N. J., to Tottenville, Staten Is
land, at 1045 the night Of the kid
naping.
March 17-Mr. and Mrs. Leandro
Iightfoot, Franklin Park. N. j., re-
ported their two German servants, a
man and a woman, disappeared March
2, after the man had borrowed their
car for a 60-mile trip the night of
March / The servants later appear
ed voluntarily and were cleared.
April 11-Greenwich, Conn, police
we're hunting for green sedan In
which a woman drove away from
bakery after the proprietor had noticed
that a bill she rendered him was one
of those Col Lindbergh paid the sup
posed kidnapers through "Jafsie."
May 13-John Hughes Curtis, in a
telephone call from the Lindbergh
garage, after the baby's body had been
found, told Norfolk police to look for
a green sedan with a 1927 or 1928
license plate" which he said was owned
by the kidnapers' go-between.
May I3-Norfolk police, hunting for
the car he described, found green
sedan at Curtis boat works, which they
identified as his property.