LINDBERGH BABY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1932, Page 5

LINDBERGH BABY

GREAT MAN HUNT

STARTING IN THE STATES

lUnited Press Association—By Electris Telegraph.—Copyright.)

NEW YORK, May.l3

With President Hoover and Washington ordering all the--Federal secret service agencies to make .the kidnapping and murder of the Lindburgh baby a live and never-to-be-forgotten, case until the criminals implicated are brought to justice, New Jersey officials started organising the greatest man-hunt in history,’with offers of cooperation from law-enforcement agencies throughout the United States pouring in. Meanwhile, Colonel Lindbergh visited the morgue at Trenton, and identified his boy’s body. He ordered its cremation, which was immediately effected.

Mrs Lindbergh Iras remained in seclusion with her mother (Mrs MorH"v), and friends,

Public indignation remains at a high pitch. Press and public officials are demanding the sternest action. Many citizens at Hopewell are openly advocating lynching if the murderers are captured. Tile investigation liilitres on a mass of conflicting dues, which the authorities propose to thresh out systematic cnllly.

WASHINGTON, May 14

A joint resolution has been introduced into the U.S.A. House to provide a reward of one hundred thousand dollars for information leading to the arrest of the Lindbergh; baby kidnappers. Seventy-five Coastguard vessels and six destroyers are patrolling the Atlantic Const, in search cf a boat that is believed to be carrying either the kidnappers or a group o'; criminals, who were trying to extort a -further large snm of money from Lindbergh, and with whom tile Colonel was attempting to make contact at the time that the body of the baby was found.

The “Trenton Times” said to-dny that Prosecutor Erwin Marshall, in conference on Thursday midnight, with T)r. John F. .Condon “The Jafsia” of the Lindbergh search, was informed that the sleeping suit from the baby’s body had been turned over to him in the negotiations which had resulted in the payment, sometime ago, of fifty thousand dollars ransom money. The Sleeping suit, Condan said, is in the possession of Lindbergh.