The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-12
MEANS CLAIMS BODY
FOUND WASN'T THAT
Of BABY LINDBERCH
Declares New Jersey Rum Run
ners Were Kidnapers Of
Lone Eagles Son

washington, May 12.-(H9-GaStol
B. Means testified in the District o
Columbia supreme court Friday thai
the infant body found in New jersey
and identified by Charles A. Lind
bergh just year ago as that Of hi!
kidnapped son was plant" according
to information he said had been giver
him by one "Wellington Henderson
whom he had identified previously
as one of the kidnapers.
Means said Henderson visited hin
when he (Means) was out on bal
following arrest in the Mclean case
and said he had the real Lindbergf
baby at JuareZ. This was on May II
of last year and, Means said Hender-
son told him the baby still was alive
at that date.
Means further said Henderson had
told him the autopsy performed or
the body OF the baby found In New
Jersey disclosed different measure.
ments from that of the real Lind
bergh child.
Continuing the story that he begar
Thursday in testifying in his own be-
half, Means said MAX Hassel' and
MAX Greenberg" were responsible
for the kidnapping. He added that
he did not know the two men, but
that they had sold beer to servants
a. the Lindbergh house.
He said Irving Fenton," described
previously by him as one OF those
responsible for the kidnapping, had
told him that Colonel Lindbergh, as
a practical joke on occasions. had
placed his baby in closet and told
the servants that the baby had been
stolen.
This joke, said Means, gave the kid
napers the idea Of how to take the
baby. One of the members of their
ring did go to the Lindbergh house
with beer, picked the baby from its
crib and went away, he added.
Means took up the thread of his
story where he left off Thursday and
told of meeting Fenton at Concord
N. G.
Tells Of Negotiations
The former justice department
agent was telling the story of his own
negotiations between Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean, estranged wife Of the
former publisher of the Washington
Post, and the group he described as
kidnapers. His activities resulted in
the present charges that Means and
Norman T. Whitaker conspired to de-
fraud Mrs. Mclean of $4,000.
Means testified Thursday that he
had been shown the baby Of Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh by one yelling
ton Henderson, alleged by him to be
one of the kidnapers, on the night OF
March %, 1892.
The baby Means said, was on the
pack seat of an automobile driven by
Henderson and was being taken to
Aiken, allegedly for delivery to Mrs
Mclean upon payment OF 100000
ransom. Henderson was identified by
Means as the head of the Commu-
mist third International"
Earlier Means had described how
two previous attempts to deliver the
baby in Washington, D. c., had failed
March 8 he said the baby was taken
to the Maryland home of Mrs. Nc
Lean, and, since she was absent, to
the Georgetown home of Colonel Rob.
ert Guggenheim, friend OF the
Lindbergh's. Means said Guggenhein
had refused to accept the baby.
A year ago Friday the baby wa:
found dead in clump Of shrubberJ
within q few miles OF Colonel Lind.
bergh's home.
Hassel and Greenberg were killed
April 18th in q gang murder at Eliza
beth, N. j.
Means said other men with whom