Evening star., 1935-01-04


@. Now, colonel, Of course you
found your baby was missing and you
found that-did somebody want to
see 1.-THE bed clothes in the room
and the baby'S room had been dis
turbed. Did you notify the police?
A. shall describe 1t, what happened
to it?
O. Yes, please. A. Immediately
went into the closet in our own room
adjoining and got Springfield rife
which kept there and stood at the
top of the stairs, called 70 Mr.. Wheat
ley and asked him to call the sheriff
at Hopewell. That was the nearest
officer of the law that knew Of. AS
soon as I found that his telephone
call went through. so that the wires
were not cut, which I had expected,
as soon as he received an answer from
the sheriff so that knew that ne was
coming, went outside on the road
north of the house.
@. With the rife? A. With the
rifle. 1t was extremely dark that
night, I could see very little distance,
and I walked on that road probably
for hundred yards. then returned
to the house Before I went on the
road Jumped
@. All right. A. went ahead q
little bit. After Mr.. Wheatley had
made contact with the sheriff at
Hopewell. or with the chief Of police,
I then went downstairs-before I went
out onto that road-and called the
New Jersey State police and Col:
Breckinridge in New York. Then I
took the rifle and went out onto the
road.
Returned in Short Time.
@. And who is Col Breckenridge?
A. Col. Breckenridge is my friend and
attorney in New York.
@. Your friend and Attorney A.
Yes.
@. You say you went out with this
rifle and then returned? -. Yes.
Q. Then what did you do, if any
thing? Had police come? A. Very
shortly after that Chief Wolfe ar.
rived. Meanwhile we had touched
nothing in the house, in the nursery
room. I left instructions not 70 touch
anything there I, myself, had not
| touched the note. And after Chief
Wolfe arrived we began looking
around the house outside.
@. You are talking OF Chief Wolfe
| of the Hopewen police A. OF the
Hopewell police. yes. We went around
| to the side under the nursery win
dow-that is, on the east side OF the
| house and as I recall now it was
Chief Wolfe who, with his flashlight,
| found, located the ladder lying quite
few feet in approximately southeast
direction from the nursery window.
@. You mean that by the light OF
| the fiashlight you could see the lad
der? A. Could see the ladder. yes.
@. That was either Chief Wolfe or
Williamson? A. Yes remember
clearly seeing the ladder. but I am
not certain at the moment who hold
ing the light. We walked through
there on the planks which had been
laid over the mud on the east side
Of the house and we found both foot
prints and the imprints Of the end
Of the ladder approximately under
the southeast window Of the nursery,
but Offset slightly to the north. So
that the ladder was actually resting
slightly to the north of the window
itself.
@. And you found the imprins Of
that ladder there? A. Yes.
@. And you say footprints; did you
find Mrs. Lindbergh's footprints
there? A. The footprints that I saw
at the time were Of man.
@. see. Did you see any Of her
footprints? A. don't recall seeing
any Of hers.
O. You don't recall. All right. Now
after that. sir. I take it that State
police came and you showed them the
note? Oh, pardon me. before that,
when Officer Williamson. or Chief
Chief Wolfe, is it? A. Chief Wolfe.
O. Chief Wolfe?
A. And Officer Williamson.
@. And Officer Williamson; when
they came did you take them up to
the nursery?
A. believe so.
Note Given to Troopers.
Q. Well. at any rate. who were the
officers, if you remember, Colonel, 10
whom you first exhibited the note?
A. left instructions, after finding
the note, that no one was to touch 1t,
and the note was not touched until
Trooper Wolfe Of the New Jersey
State police arrived. He moved the
note from the window sill to the man
tel over the fireplace with q pen
knife.
O. Yes. sir.
A. And the note itself was not
opened until Trooper Kelly arrived
with suitable equipment for exam
ining it.
O. For examining it. you mean, for
fngerprints?
A. Yes.
@. Now I want to show you a pic
ture Of what, I believe, purportS to
be the ground right underneath the
window in the immediate vicinity Of
that window. with some impressions
or holes in the ground, and ask you
whether you recognize those holes as
being the place where the ladder stood,
or the indentation or the impression
made by the foot Of the ladder that
you have just referred to?
A. Yes, they are
@. Do they correctly depict the i'm
presSions that you saw there that
night made by the foot of that lad
der?
a. by tne lauueT, yes.
@. BY the ladder
A. But there are other impressions
@. There are other impressions, but
particularly in reference to that: and
that is what I am limiting it to?
A. Yes.
@. And that walk-there seems to .
be a board there; is that the board
walk that Mrs. Lindbergh referred to
while ago?
A. That either is or is similar to
the walk that was lying-that was
there that night.
Mr.. Wilentz-I offer It In evidence.
Mr. Reilly-We would like to admit
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