THE KIDNAPPED BABY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20491, 9 March 1932, Page 11

THE KIDNAPPED BABY.

NO DEFINITE NEWS. MANY CONTRADICTORY REPORTS (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received March Bth, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 7. Another 2i hours have passed without information of any valuo either concerning the fate of the Lindbergh baby or the progress of plans for the intended negotiations of its parents with the kidnappers. Efforts to communicate with Spitale and Bitz were unsuccessful. Their movements are clothed in secrecy. The 'police continue to affirm, at least publicly, their belief that tho baby is still alive and unharmed. Police Set a Trap. At Bristol, Pennsylvania, two men and a woman were arrested to-night in a traj) set by' tho State police for the writers of the note demanding 50,000 dollars ransom for tho kidnapped Lindbergh baby. Lindbergh received the note at Ilopcwell on Saturday. They were later released. However, the letter disclosed to-night for the first time that instructions will be given to the Lindberghs to meet the writers beneath tho railroad bridge at Croydon, near here, at 8 p.m., with no one else, and that unless they kept the appointment and brought the money tbeir baby would bo killed. A man and a woman were placed in an automobile at the designated' spot, and plain-clothes men hid nearby. When the car drove up tho police leapt from their hiding places and collared the three occupants, who were taken to Bristol for questioning. -"No Demand for Ransom.'' Captain J. J. Lamb, of the State police, announced on Monday that no demand for a ransom had ever been made for the Lindbergh baby, neither had Colonel Lindbergh nor the police had any communication from the kidnappers. f This statement was in direct contradiction of the information given out by tho investigating forces last week that a noto had been pinned to the nursery window-sill demanding a ransom, and threatening harm if the text was made public. Captain Lamb made his announcement at a Press conference. Letter Intercepted. A message from Sidney (New York) states that a letter addressed to Colonel Charles Lindbergh, demanding a ransom of 500,000 dollars for the return of the baby, and proposing a meeting with his representative at the Cross Trail Restaurant, near Mansfield (Pennsylvania) to-night, was intercepted at Elmira (New York), so the Sidney Barracks officials have informed, the Asso* dated Press. A messago from South Bend (Indiana) states that United States Marshal E. O. Ilall this afternoon telephoned the secretary of Governor A. H. Moore (New Jersey) that he had been informed "that a certain aviator had threatened to get even with Lindbergh." This aviator was obsessed with professional jealousy of the acclaim Lindbergh has received, and made the threat three weolcs ago. It is understood that Mr Hall provided the Governor's secretary with tho pilot's i identity.