Evening star., 1932-03-02
Police Baffled
by Lack of
Any Clues.
STOLEN WHILE
PARENTS DINED
Wind and Warped
Shutter Lend Aid
to Abductors.
gy the Associated Press.

NEWARK, N. j., March "A
post card was mailed to Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh from here
today, reading: Babe safe.
Instructions later. Act accord
ingly."
The card was picked up in
the noon collections from box
at the corner of Plane and Gen.
tral avenues, in the heart of the
city. 1t was spotted by a dis
tributor in the post office, who
removed it from the mail and
reported its contents. The
message on the card was
printed.
The card was taken to New
ark police headquarters, where
it was examined by fingerprint
experts. Post Office officials
said they intended replacing
the card in the mail for de-
livery to Col. Lindbergh after
they finished their examina-
ton. It was addressed to Col.
Lindbergh at Princeton, N. j."
Director of Public Safety
william Egan Immediately
called out the entire police
force and a house-to-house
search of the vicinity of Plane
street and Central avenue was
begun.
The finding of the card
strengthened the belief of au-
thorities that an abandoned
sedan found early today in Hill
side, a suburb, may have been
used by the kidnapers in their
flight from the Lindbergh
home.
The car, unlighted and the
bearings of it's motor burned
out from lack of oil, was found
in a field near the Newark line.
The street is within a few
blocks of a road which runs
directly to Somerville, linking
there with a straight road to
Princeton.
The car bore New York license
plates and was reported stolen
Yesterday from Brooklyn. The
owner was said by police to
be A. S. Mandell, Brooklyn.
Although police examined the
car for fingerprints, they i'm
mediately began going over it
again.
tCopyrisht, 1882, by the Associated Press)
HOPEWELL, N. j., March q
Ransom has been demanded fol
the Lindbergh baby, KIDNAPPED
from its nursery last night, anc
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is will
ing to pay if he can get the infan'
safely back to it's mothers arms.
1t was learned shortly before
noon today that a note fount
pinned to the sill of the window
through which the baby wa.
taken from its sick bed by tht
kidnapers made a definite ransom
demand.
Note Contains Threat.
1t also threatened harm to the
child if the money was not paid
if the contents of the note wa.
divulged or if the method of pay
ment suggested in the note was
revealed.
So threatening was the note that
fog hours its very existence was denied
by police investigating the crime.
1t was finally determined with abso-
lutte definiteness, however, that the
ransom demand had been made anc
that Col. Lindbergh had decided tc
meet any demand if by SO doing ht
would get his baby back
No one would say how large the de-
mand was but report that it wa!
$4,000 went undenied by sources Gloss
TO the Lindbergh family and to thu
widespread search.
Gov A. Harry Moore and Republic.
an legislative leaders, after conferrins
by telephone with Col Lindbergh
abandoned plans to offer a reward O
$4,000 or more for the apprehension
of the kidnapers.
This morning puzzled police re
enacted the crime as part of thei
frantic efforts to solve the mystery.
Woman Believed Involved.
Using the same makeshift ladder will
which the kidnap band, believed to in