Evening star., 1932-03-14
MYSTERIOUS GANG
NEW K|DNAP CLUE
Activities of Denver Under
world Army in New
York Probed.
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sounded by Abraham H. Kesselman
attorney for Salvy Spitale and Irving
Bftz, the two men commissioned by
Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh to act as their
sources.
Contact" Is Claimed.
Kesselman, who obtained the acquit-
tai of Spitale and Bitz last week in
a Brooklyn court, where they were
tried in liquor case, announced that
his clients had been in indirect con-
tact" with the kidnapers and that as
soon as they cleared up a few details
in connection with the case here and
In New York they would hurry to
Detroit.
There, the attorney said, they hoped
to make important progress-perhaps
even effect the return of the child
Kesselman quoted Bitz as saying the
More Clues Followed.
"Clues" and moves mysteriously
guarded continued to mark the case
From Sandusky, Ohio, Sheriff John w
Parker telephoned to New Jersey au-
thorfties, giving what they described as
important information"
This information, whatever it may be
was described as independent of an in
quiry by Police Chief C. A. Weingates
of Sandusky, who has questioned a re-
puted member Of the Detroit purple
gang.
In Seattle, detectives tried to run
down report that the kidnapping was
plotted in Billings, Mont, last June It
came from 1obless paperhanger, who
said two bank robbers invited him to
participate in the crime and that he
refused.
Henry (Red) johnson, sailor, who
courted Betty Cow, the babys nurse
was cleared Of suspicion, but was held
at Newark to face deportation pro-
ceedings on the charge he entered the
country without any immigration for
malities.
State police checked on two gangs
in Brooklyn and North Jersey and an
nounced they were eliminated as posi-
biilties.
20-month-old boy was alive and safe.
Schwarzkopf at first considered the
York angle Of the case sufficiently i'm
portant to assign two investigators. He
declined to say exactly what had de-
veloped at York, limiting himself to the
comment thct one Of the new leads in
the investigation ran between York
From York came dispatch ndicat-
ing 1t was the oSteopath's story which
started the investigation. The osteopath
M B. Shellenberger, told police that g
man, a woman and a baby came to his
ONCE and that the man said:
DO you know whose baby this is;
Well, that Is the Lindbergh child. YoU
call up Col. Lindbergh's home and tel
him to leave the ransom money at -
and the baby will be turned over to him
at =" Police withheld the places
specified.
The oSteopath said he obeyed anc
that the man then drew pistol warned
him to be silent, and drove away with
the woman and child.
Tennessee Clue Fails.
The announcement came after po.
lice, declaring they had unearthed NJ
definite information Of q concrete ma.
ture leading to solution Of the case,
held a conference In the Lindbergf
home to plan the next steps In theil
| search for the kipnaped child.
Yesterday saw hope bloom and withel
in the Lindbergh household on a wrong
| report that set Crossville, Tenn.
aquiver. From that mountain commu
| nifty Sheriff Baxter Swicegood sen
word that he had detained four persons
with baby that was the image of tht
kidnapped child. When the news go
around, they had to call on Nationa
Guardsmen to control the throngs tina
jammed into the place eager to get
glimpse Of "the most famous baby II
the world"
But the Associated Press photo
graphic service rushed a picture Of th'
child by plane and telephoto TO tn
Lindbergh home, where the parent
scanned it anxiously.
mo, that's not our baby" they said
In CroSsville, however, authoritle
said they would hold the baby and th'
adults awhile. The adults, who wer'
quoted by the sheriff as saying they hac
no home and were Just travelling
around" said they were Mr.. and Mrs
John NJ Young and Mr.. and Mrs
Homer Mitchell.
The operator Of a tourist camp re-
ported they had stopped at his plac'
with a sign reading: See the kid tina
resembles the Lindbergh baby. Admis
sion, Is cents"
There was no word today from Morris
Rosner, another man of mystery" II
the case. who said Saturday he knew
the baby would be returned safe. HI
was reported to be In communication
with the Lindbergh home, however, O.
he went about his delicate" task.
LETTER BRINGS ARREST.