Evening star., 1934-09-25

in a small town in Central Missouri
and today resumed their journey. At
midday they dropped in at a small
isolated airport at Cincinnati, re-
fueled their ship and took off in the
direction of Columbus
The question of fingerprints was
brought to the fore in the inVeStiga-
ton again today by Col H Norman
SchWarZkopf, superintendent of the
New Jersey State police. He repeated
an oft-voiced statement that no fin
gerprints had been found in the Lind
bergh home the night of the kidnap-
ing.
I'VE found no fngerprints on the
window sill of the nursery" Schwarz-
kopf said. We found no fingerprintS
of any kind anywhere. That includes
the ladder and everything else"
Fingerprints Obtained.
Schwarzkopf's statement was made
IN connection with reports Speculat-
ing on the rushing of Hauptmann's
flngerprints to the State police at
Trenton, N. ]. Schwarzkopf said he
had obained Hauptmann's prints and
sent them to the Identification Bu-
reau at New Jersey State police head
quarters merely as a routine police
procedure" And he added that they
did not compare with any on file
New Jersey activity in the investi-
cation continued unabated today. An
thony M Hauck, prosecutor of Hunt
erdon County, the site of the Lind
bergh home, went to Trenton to con-
fer with New Jerseys attorney gen.
eral, David T. Wilentz Hauck said
the conference presumably was about
the Llndbergh case and he announced
the Hunterdon County grand jury
would meet Thursday. However. he
said he did not know whether indict-
ments would be sought then against
Hauptmann. The county already has
seven John Doe indictments charging
murder on file, they having been re-
turned more than year ago.
Federal agents were reported seek
ing three women in New Jersey for
COrrOboratlOn OF the story of George
Paulin, Ohio Penitentiary convict.
who claims he received code note
giving advance knowledge Of the kid
naping A brother of Paulin had
tod Federal agents that the women
could confirm the convict's acquaint-
ance with Hauptmann.
Colored Man Held.
Robert Mincy. colored. of Camden.
N. J., was arrested today in the tailor
shop of Max Ulrich in the Bronx, after
he failed to find three notes which he
said were written by a man resembling
Hauptmann
Police placed little credence in his
story of the notes, which he said he
hid behind a radiator after finding
them in the pockets of a suit a man
left TO be pressed in February. 1888.
He said he left Ulrichs employ
few days after the notes were found.
He was arrested on a charge of larceny.
brought by Ulrich, who had been seek
ing him since he left because a guam
tity of clothing vanished at the same
time.
Meanwhile, New York police took
Hauptmann'S carpentry tools for mi
croscopic examination. They reasoned
that hicks and bumps possibly might
fit the fooled ridges and grooves on
the home made ladder down which
the abductOr carried the baby from a
nursery window
The ladder, which broke under the
weight of the kidnaper and his victim,
also figured prominently in a third
track which the Investigators took.
They ordered an x-ray of Haupt-
mann's left ankle to determine whether
a fracture had caused the phlebitis
which he suffered months after the
abduction.
Three Charges Ready.
Prosecutors say they are ready to
press three charges.
Extortion in connection with the
ransom double-cross is the charge be-
fore a Bronx County grand jury in
this city. Defense counsel heard
Hauptmann already had been in
dicted
kidnapping and murder charges are
planned in New Jersey.
The former German machine gun
ner was arrested in New York after
gasoline station attendant received
$40 gold note and jotted down the
customers automobile license num-
ber The bill was from the $4,000
ransom which Col. Lindbergh paid
for his son, already dead. The license
number was that of Hauptmann's car
In the best manner of fiction, the
unraveling of Americas most notori-
Gus kidnapping brought the bereaved
flyer and the accused father-Haupt-
mann, too. has a little son-closer to
a climatic meeting.
Lindbergh saw an accomplice of the
mysterious John" who took the ram
som over a cemetery wall. This was
revealed last night. The man, hand
kerchief over his face. peered into the
aviator's automobile as Lindbergh