The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-22
POLICE REFUSE TO
COMMENT ON RAID
IN new YORK CITY
Detroit Gangster Was Sought
For Questioning in Kid.
naping Mystery
STATE TROOPERS SILENT
Newspaper Photographer Un-
earths New Ladder Clue
Near Lindbergh Home

Hopewell, N. j.. March 22.-(R)e
Police at the Lindbergh home heard
with interest Tuesday about New
York raid made in an effort to cap
ture Harry Fleischer. Detroit purple
gangster wanted for questioning about
the kidnapping Of the Lindbergh baby
but they would make no comment.
There was little to distract their at
tention from the latest development
IN the metropolis for there was no
slightest break" in the case here or
elsewhere in New Jersey.
The morning bulletin issued by Col
H. Norman Schwarzkopf. superin-
tendent Of state police, was little more
than a succession OF negatives.
He said he had no knowledge Of the
reported entrance into the case Of
Wallace Caldwell Of Chicago.
He said no prisoner with battered
face had been brought to the Lind
bergh home, as some reports had 1t.
There were no developments in con-
nection with the note seeming to bear
on the case found attached to q pig
con in South Kent. Conn.
Is Persons Knew Whereabouts
The only statement In the whole
bulletin which was not negative was
schwarzkopf's reply to a written
question as to how many persons
knew Of the Lindbergfs' decision to
remain here the night Of March l..
when the child was kidnapped
The persons familiar with the fact
that the Lindbergh family would re-
main at their Hopewell home Tues
day evening March - were members
and servants of the Lndbergh ana
Morrow households, the total number
of persons familiar with this fact be-
ing approximately Is"
The ominously recurring phrase
still missing" is wearing down the
resistance Of parents and searchers.
Chief Detective Elmer Ham Of
Hunterdon county is impatient. He
said Monday he believed the baby
will be returned through Col. Lind
bergh's private negotiations, but not
until state police have withdrawn.
The noise created by the huge
search organization has not helped.
he said.
An opinion that certain angles Of
the case ought to be considered by
the grand jury when 1t meets April
IL was expressed by the sheriff, in
whose county the Lindbergh house Is
situated. Attorney General william
Stevens, who has taken over the
duties of Hunterdon prosecutor be-
cause that office Is vacant. said, how
ever, he would not put the case be-
fore the grand jury.
See Grand Jury Probe
There, is q possibility. though, the
grand Jury will investigate the al
legged invasion Of the Sourland coun-
try by gangsters from Brooklyn. Old
time residents of section whose
traditions antedate the Revolution
resent the intrusion Of shadowy char
acters whom gossip links with the
"applejack" racket and worse.
Monday there was the usual supply
Of clues. They gave little comfort.
In Connecticut, police were told a
carrier pigeon, battered down In a
storm, bore q note saying kid In
yacht" The note was code and was
deciphered by bootlegger. they were
told. The Tip" was unverified.
Conflicting reports came about an
other pigeon note found In Brod-
headsville, Pa. One was that boys
tied 1t to dead pigeon as q prank.
But the East Stroudsburg Morning
Sun said local officers knew nothing
Of any confession by boys. This note
said:
Pulled Oft the job in fine order.
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