The Washington times., 1932-05-16
SCANDINAVIAN
! WAS LEADER
Of MOB"
Professor Describes Meeting
of Vessel Where He Was
Held at Gun Point
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bergh emissary, police today
constructed a theory Of the
crime, the highlights of which
are these:
The kidnapping was planned
to extort money from Lind
bergh. The child's death, if
not perhaps accidental, was
decreed when it became too
shot" for the criminals to
keep him amidst the hue and
cry over the deed.
While the chiefs of the kid
nap ring stayed in a shack
somewhere in Sourland Noun
tains, two men and a woman
taken into the plot to care
for the stolen infant travelled
by automobile to the Lind
bergh home. The men climbed
n ladder and took the child
from its crib in the nursery.
After one or more slew the
baby, the kidnaperS, believing
themselves secure from capture,
started their CHASTITY negotiations
to wrest cash from Lindbergh by
trading on his longing to recover
the baby.
One Ex-Jafsie Pupil
This. in essentials. was the po-
Sice version. One point was OBJ
Ectire, and that was the POSSIBLE
aty the baby was slain on the
night it was captured, either be-
cause his cries threatened ex-
posure of the kidnapers or for
some other reason, and was
buried Immediately in the shallow
grave four and a half miles
from it's Sourland Mountain
home near Hopewell, N. ].
Condon's information and that
Of Curtis were regarded as Of out
standing Importance. Condor him
self said he was informed he was
chosen as negotiator by the group
who convinced him its members
were the captors, because one OF
their number once was a pupil
of his when Condor was public
school principal.
Condon's house in the Bronx
was placed under guard today for
fear his revelations might bring
attempted reprisals from the
criminals.
Indy Joins Hunt
Curtis, a Southern ship builder,
remained in Newark overnight,
staying at a hotel where two mem.
bers Of the New Jersey State
police also slept. He was to
return to Newark police head
quarters today.
The kidnaper-slayers may have
fled to Europe. This conviction
grew in certain police circles
today. The theory was strongly
entertained that the gang either
booked passage on some liner or
used their own vessel, the craft
The authorities have been trying
to contact, to reach foreign
shores.
This afternoon a conference
was to be called by Gov. A.
Harry Moore, of New Jersey 20
coordinate police activity. For
weeks there has been an under
current of dissatisfaction over
the manner in which the whole
investigation has been conducted.
This criticism has eliminated in
The suggestion of state Senator
Emerson L. Richards, of Atlantic
county, that there be a legisla.
Bive inquiry.
state Police Chief Schwarzkopf,
despite the criticism leveled at
him and the New Jersey State
police, will. according to reports
current today, be formally deSig-
mated as the chief of staff of
all the police agencies conduct
ing the search for the Slayers at
The Governors conference this
Afternoon.
Indy Thanks Moore
The Governor will confer with
Attorney General william A..
Stevens, Prosecutor Anthony M.
G7auck of Hunterdon County, and
Prosecutor Erwin E. Marshall of
Mercer County.
The Governor is also expected
TO designate the chief of the legal
forces to conduct the prosecution
in event the criminals are found,
One of the chief questions to
be discussed at the conference is
that of the jurisdiction Of the
prosecutors. The kidnapping &C.
Cured in Hunterton County,
where the Lindbergh home is To-
Gated. On the other hand, the
murder is legally presumed to
have occurred in Mercer County,
where the body was found.
Colonel Lindbergh, who is TAX
ing a deep interest in the activi.
ties Of the authorities, today ex-
pressed his appreciation to Gov
ernor Moore for his efforts. He
wrote the Governor:
81 want to express to you
nay sincere appreciation for the
great assistance we have re-
Ceived from the State of New
Jersey. 1t is not possible for
me to express adequately our
appreciation for the cOnSidera-
ton extended by both State
and local officials.
"The untiring energy, eff.
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