LINDBERGH’S SON

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1932, Page 5

LINDBERGH’S SON

RANSOM DEMANDED HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. Jcited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright ) NEW YORK, March 7. A message from Sidney (New York) states that a letter addressed to Lindbergh, demanding a -ransom of half a million dollars for the v/ turn of;ithe baby, and proposing a meeting with hits representative at me Cross Trail Restaurant, ' near Mansheld (Pennsylvania), to-night, was intercepted at Elmira (New York), so the Sidney Barracks officials informed the Associated Press. NO NEWS. SECRECY OF KIDNAPPERS. NEW YORK, March 7. Another twenty-four hours have since passed without any information of value either concerning the fate of Lindbergh’s baby, or progress of plans for the intended negotiations of its parents with the kidnappers. Efforts to communicate with Spitale and Bitz have so far been unsuccessful. Their movements are clothed in secrecy. The police continue to affirm, at least publicly, their belief that the baby is still alive and unharmed. A CONTRADICTION. NEW YORK, March 7. Captain J. J. Lamb, of the State Police, announced on Monday that no demand for ransom had ever been made for. the Lindbergh baby. Neither Lindbergh nor the police had had any communication from the kidnappers. This statement was in direct contradiction- of the information given out by the investigating forces last week, that the note had been pinned to the nursery window-sill, demanding a ransom, and threatening harm if the text were made public. Captain Lamb made his announcement at a Press Conference. Another message states'that it was learned on Monday, from a reliable source, that two communications, identified as authentic by the handwriting and paper, were received on Sunday by the Lindberghs from the kidnappers. PILOT SUSPECT. NEW YORK, March 7. A message from South ‘Bend (Indiana) states that United States Marshall ‘E. 0. Hall, this afternoon telephoned to the Secretary of Governor Moore, of New Jersey, stating that lie had bfeen informed, ('tlmt a certain aviator threatened to got even with Lindbergh.” TMg aviator is obsessed with professional jealousy of the acclaim which Lindbergh has received, and made the threat three weeks ago. I It is understood that Marshall Hall provided the Governor’s Secretary with the pilot’s identity.

THREE ARRESTED AND RELEASED. NEW YORK, March 7. At Bristol (Pennsylvania), two men and a woman were arrested to-night in a trap set by the State police for writers of the note demanding 50,000 dollars ransom for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby, which Lindbergh recerved at Hopewell on Saturday. There were later released. However, the letter disclosed to-night, for the first'time, that it instructed the Lindberghs to meet the writers beneath a railroad bridge at Croydon, near here, at 8 p.m., with no one else. Unless they kept the appointment and brought the money, the baby would be killed.

The man and woman were placed in an automobile at the designated spot, and plainclothes men hid nearby. When the car drove up, the police leapt from their hiding places. and collared the three occupants, who were taken tto Bristol for questioning.

STILL MISSING. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) BOSTON, March 8, Two men, one of whom said he was trying to telephone Colonel Lindbergh and tell him that he knew of a man who knew where the baby was hidden, have been arrested. A Hopewell message states that the police have revealed that they are still 'investigating a possibility of some member of the Lindbergh household being involved im the kidnapping of the baby.