The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-23
By SIDNEY B. WHIPpLE

Copyright, 1033, by the United
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 Americas greatest unsolved mys- tery-the Lindbergh Kidnapping - will be a year old next week.
 Today United Press correspond ents in widely separated cities found the motley assortment of characters who achieved q f1eeting celebrity in the weeks and months that followed that Hateful night of March l, 1892 when Charles Aug ustus Lindbergh, Jr., was snatched from his crib.
 Scared by their contact with the major crime of the century, a ma jority of this strange cast of players have attempted to take up the threads of their normal exist ence, only to be ignored, scorned or harried by their fellows. Gangsters and gunmen have sunk again to the underworld, to submerge themselves in their usual shadowy occupations. Preachers have gone back to their pulpits and educators to their class rooms. Small town constables and big shot' detectives, equally baffled. have turned to less important problems with the knowledge that they failed in their greatest test.
 The white house at Hopewell, where baby Lindbergh was taken from his crib stands in empty desolation in setting of bleak New Jersey hills. A little group of state troopers, guarding the scene, still remind an occasional curious visitor that here was the focus of the most prodigious po- lice operations in the history of American criminality.
 Col. and Mrs Lindbergh live at Hopewell no longer. With the con- solation of their second son, Jon Dwight w. Morrow, Mrs Lind Dergn's mother, in Englewood, N. J. The tragedy has shut them off from the world, marked them in- dclibly with its horror.
 What other changes in human destiny has the year brought?
 Of all the characters who burst into the spotlight in March, 1882, none was as dashingly spectacular as John Hughes Curtis. the Nor folk, Va, boatbuilder who claimed to have established contact with the kidnapers through long course of dangerous negotiations at sea.
 The Curtis hoax was exposed, the boatbuildcr paid a $1,00O fine. received a years suspended sen- tenoe for Constructing justice" and returned home to Norfolk. once a leader of Norfolk's exclu- sive society, to-day finds him an outcast, living precariously with his wife and two children, in a lit- tie cottage 10 miles from the city. Tis bodybuilding business has gone: The little money saved by his wife has gone. The company he once headed is bankrupt. Judg- ments of $10,O0O are held against him. The profit from the occa- sional sale of marine engine keeps his family alive.
 Irving Bitz and Salvatore Spit ale were linked together in the un- derworld partnership that was hopefully called upon to search the dim purplieus of gangdom for the kidnapers. Until they were authorized to negotiate with the kidnapers, they had pursued suc- cessful if minor, careers as rum- runners ana propr1etors or unim- portant New York speakeasies without too much molestation from the police.
 Since the Lindbergh case, Bitz has been arrested four times for alleged association with criminal events including two homicides, an attempted jail break and a payroll robbery.
 Spitale has been arrested twice in connection with homicide cases once more on charges of carrying concealed weapons, and his speak easy has been raided twice in the past 12 months. In each case he has "beaten the rap" But he leads an uneasy life.
 Dr John F. Condon, the "Jafsie' who conducted negotiations witt the kidnapers through newspaper l"personal" columns. and finally