Evening star., 1935-12-23

indefinite time, perhaps permanently
Col LindberghS work as technical
adviser to Pan American AirWays,
officials of that company said today.
will be continued despite his residence
abroad.
Lindbergh sat in the Pennington
court room at every session Of the SEN
sational Hauptmann trial and was
star witness against Hauptmann. One
phase of the appeal from Haupt-
mann's conviction was based on this
fact, Hauptmann's counsel contendinG
that the presence in court of the New
York-to-Paris flyer was prejudicial to
Hauptmanns interests.
During all the recent developments
in Hauptmann's case. including the
visit to the death cell by the New
Jersey Governor, Lindbergh had per-
sistently declined to comment. His
testimony at Pennington. delivered
calmly in a tense court room, was that
the voice of the eXtortionist to whom
$4,000 ransom money was paid in A
Bronx, N. Y, cemetery was 'the voice
of Hauptmann."
Col. Lindbergh is known to hold
the opinion that there is greater re-
spect for law and order in England
than in his native country, where
his own experience with kidnapers has
been so tragic.
Ever since the birth Of Jon in Au-
gust, 1882, six months after the kid
naping of the flrst-born child, it has
been necessary to provide bodyguards
for the infant and to surround his
movements with utmost secrecy.
Stunned Public Notice.
Since coming into world prominence
after his New York k-to-Paris flight in
1927, the formerly known Slim"
Lindbergh airmail pilot, has con-
stantly sought for a return of some
semblance of the anonymity that was
previously his.
Unlike most other celebrated fig
lres of his day, Lindbergh has at
tempted to avoid public notice. The
kidnap-murder of his child was a
tragedy that lifted his name again
into black headlines and made it once
more a matter of daily conversation
throughout the country.
The dream home" at Hopewell,
N. j., has been deserted almost since
the Spring days of 1882, when police,
detectives and Federal agents were
there seeking clues to the crime COM
mitted in the little upstairs nursery.
Reminder as it was of great tragedy,
the house was no longer desirable to
the Lindberghs as home. The
colonel's counsel later announced that
the estate was being given over as a
center for child welfare work and was
to be known as Highfield. Details OF
the property transfer, however, were
not disclosed. Nothing has yet been
done and the estate remains unten-
anted.
Since the days of the kidnapping the
Lindberghs have made their home at
Englewood, N. j.. with Mrs. Lind
bergh's mother, wife of the late
Dwight Morrow. The Summers have
been spent at the Lindberghs' island
estate in Maine.
Newspaper Discloses Plan.
First word of the Lindberghs' de-
parture for England was given in a
copyrighted story today in the New
York Times.
The Times said:
although they do not plan to give
up their American citizenship, they
are prepared to live abroad perma-
nently. if necessary.
where they will live in England
when they get there not even their
closest friends know and it Is probable
neither the colonel nor his wife knows.
They have many friends there and ex-
pect to visit at first until they can
find a place that suits them"
Two visits to England, first when he
had completed his epochal solo flight
across the Atlantic in May, 1927, and
with Mrs Lindbergh In 1888, were
said by the newspaper to have i'm
pressed the colonel and given the two
hope of finding the tranquility and
security which have been denied them
in their own land"
They want especially to provide for
Jon normal childhood, free from
fears and with opportunities to grow