The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-13
The Search Is Ended

The Search Is Ended
Discovery late Thursday Of the body
of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., brings
to a close one phase of the most spec
tacular crime of modern times.
Other attractions Of law and morals
have had more far-reaching results
in the history of the world but none
has stirred more interest or has
elected more genuine concern and
sympathy on the part of civilized peo-
pie everywhere.
Viewed in retrospect, the whole
thing is an impossibility come true.
It is a page from the darkest of dark
ages, translated in terms Of the
twentieth century.
When the news flashed to the world
on March l that the Young Eaglet
had been snatched from his nest, it
seemed an incredible thing. Not that
kidnapings had not occurred before.
They had. But for such thing to
happen to Indy and Anne, the ma
tons bestowed and most representa-
tive young couple, was astounding.
So far as could be learned they had
no enemies, certainly none who would
descend to such fiendish method OF
wreaking vengeance for fancied slight
or injustice. It appeared that the
crime was the act either OF de-
mented person or of as cold-blooded
and inhuman a band of criminals as
anyone has ever known.
The resources of state and govern
ment were enlisted in the search and
these were bulwarked by the intense
interest and sympathy Of millions Of
Americans. Everywhere individuals
became self-appointed detectives and
one result Of this was that many in
fants, all resembling the missing child,
were discovered. Meanwhile, the pitt
full little body, its head crushed. lay
within q few miles Of the home where
most Of It's brief life had been spent.
In looking afar the officials over
looked the gruesome evidence close at
hand.
It remained for a colored man, liv-
ing near the Lindbergh estate, to
make the discovery which so shocked
the world that 1t brought tears to
millions Of eyes Thursday night.
But the finding Of the body ends
only one phase Of this terrific GRIM
inal mystery. A new one is just be-
ginning and the good people Of the
world will hope that it is prosecuted
to q successful conclusion. Not until
the murderers Of this innocent child
are apprehended and properly pun
ished can society afford to write
"finis' to the record in this case.
For, until that is done, no mother
can be assured that this foul deed
will not be repeated. If it goes un-
punished it is an open invitation to
others to attempt similar outrages.
If such a thing can be done with
impunity to the great, well-loved and
wealthy, what might not happen to
the less obscure citizen. protected
though he may be by that very OBJ
security.
It is banal to say that the heart OF
America goes out to the parents in
their bereavement, for never have
people felt so keenly about anyone
with whom they had no personal con-
tact as they do about the Lindberghs.
The most famous young couple In the
world, their child was the most
famous infant in the world. Pictures
of his curly head and chubby hands
brought delight to every mother, even
as she Rugged her own offspring to
her breast.
But even rs the search for the STAY.
: ers goes on, one would be blind not
to recognize the fact that criminals
who have eluded capture thus far may
escape In the future. II this Is true
and II mans puny efforts to sustain
justice fail. there Is always the COM
forting thought that Vengeance is
Mine. Sayeth the Lord"