Evening star., 1933-05-12
MEANS SAYS BEER
RING KILLED CHILD
WHILE MOVING HIM
Ex-U. S. Agent Declares Baby
Was Taken From Crib With
out Use of Ladder.
SLAIN NEW JERSEY MEN
NAMED AS PRINCIPALS
Defendant in Fraud Case Also
Claims He Counted Ransom
Money Paid by Lindbergh.

The Mclean and the Jafsie ran
som money in the Lindbergh kid
naping case, totaling s15O,0O0. is in
the Elizabethport Banking Co.,
Elizabeth, N. j., CASTOR B. Means
told the court, as he concluded his
testimony in the conspiracy case
against him and Norman T. (the
Fox Whitaker in District Supreme
Court this afternoon.
Means said that the money was
in the name of Max HaSsel. New
Jersey whisky runner, who was
killed some time ago and who has
been named by Means as one of
the kidnapping gang.
The Lindbergh baby was kidnapped by
agents Of Max Hassell and Max Green
berg, New Jersey beer runners, who
were found shot to death in a hotel
room at Elizabeth, N. j., April II, and
the child was accidentally killed on
March Z a year ago when the kidnapers
dropped it when moving it from a hid
ing place, CASTOR B. Means, testifying
in his trial for conspiring with Norman
T. Whitaker to defraud Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean, declared to a jury In
District Supreme Court today
Hassell and Greenberg, Means said he
had been informed, were delivering
beer to servants at the Lindbergh house
by means of operatives. These "oper-
atives" carried three bottles of beer to
the Lindbergh home on the night Of
the kidnapping, Means related, and took
the baby away with them without the
use of a ladder.
According to Means bizarre story,
connections" of Hassell and Green
berg carried the baby to a whisky dug
out in New Jersey and kept it in hiding
for a week. The kidnapers were about
to remove the baby to another hlolng
place, Means blandly recounted, when
one of them dropped the baby, causing II
to strike its head fatal blow.
Saws He Counted Money.
Means also testified that about April
IL in Chicago he saw and counted the
SAG 900 of the s50,0O0 ransom money
given to kidnapers by DR.. John r. Con-
don, the "Jafsie" OF the LlndDergn KID
nap negotiations.
Means. resuming the melodramatic
tale of his self-styled inside contacts
with the kidnapers, declared that "Irv-
ing Fenton," whom he identified yes
terday as a confederate of Wellington
Henderson" ring-leader in the kidnap-
ing, told him, prior to Means discovery
that the baby was dead, that the Kid
napers had two babies-one OF them
the real Lindbergh child in hiding at
Aiken, S. c., and the other a decoy
child at Norfolk.
Means declared Fenton promised at
one time to deliver both babies to Mrs
Mclean at her cottage at Aiken upon
the payment of the 100000 which she
already had intrusted to Means for ran
som purposes.
Continuing to reel off sensational
episode after episode in a story which
the Government will brand as purely
fictitious, Means said Fenton had men
toned that before the actual kid
naping took place Col. Lindbergh hao
hidden his son in a closet to trlcI
the servants lIlIO Utuc'ulS eiiC SiAAAe
had been kidnapped. Means did no,
elaborate on this angle.
Resumes His Story.
Means took up his story where HI
had left off yesterday, at the opening
of this mornings session. He sale
Henderson told him at Aiken, S. c., OF
April % that he would have Fentor
meet him at Concord, N. c., the mex
day. Means said he went to Concord
and Fenton was there. He said aftel
recounting what had occurred at Aiker
he showed Fenton his authorization
signed by Mrs. Mclean, to give ,00(
to Neil williams" 1t was brought out
earlier in the trial that Neil williams
was the name to be applied to THE
Fox"
Means said he reported to Fenton
that Mrs. Mclean was very restless
high-strung and had to resort to the
use of sleeping potion"
Means said that he told Fenton he
had no positive information from
Henderson that the child he had seen
at Aiken was the Lindbergh baby anc
that he had come to Concord to get q
movie camera to take pictures of the
baby walking around. He said Fentor
was greatly perturbed about the plan:
for motion pictures and said the taking
of any movies would greatly hurt the
kidnapers' cause because they had in
tentions of collecting ransom money tr
several other places, including the
people in Norfolk, who were negotiating
for the return of the baby.
II understand the Lindbergh baby 1!
dead" Means said he told Fenton
Fenton replied, Means said. THAT !:
not so. The baby you saw Is the Lind.
bergh baby. There could be no question
about that"
Names Whisky Runners.
Fenton told him then, Means said
that there were associated with him II
the kidnapping Max Hassel and MAJ
Greenberg, whisky runners Of New
Jersey. "Fenton told me-" Means said
that knew both Greenberg and Hasse
and tried to refresh my memory, bu
I could not remember them"
Fenton then explained, according
to Means, that connections Of HaSse
and Greenberg had sold beer and some
whisky to Lindbergh's servants. Mean!
said that Fenton told him that some
months before the disappearance Of the
baby, Col. Lindbergh, as practical
joke, had put his child in a closet anc
had fooled the servants and his wife
into thinking that the child had beer
lost or kidnapped.
"Fenton said" Means declared 'tha,