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"= A—4 = SALOR STIL HELD NBIBY KDNARING Date on Milk Bottle Cap fl Shakes Alibi of Hartford e Suspect. (Continued Prom Pirst Page) which is kept the yacht of Thommas W. Lamont, New York banker and John- ployer. The milk bottle cap, said an official who would not permit the use of his name, would indicate that Johmnson could not have arrived here at the time he gave. The caps, the official ex- plained, are dated a day before their use. Johnson, taken into custody vester- by request of Englew: police, was g;lyd zzxmmmuniado in a cell in the county building after extended ques- by State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn and County Detective Edward J. Hickey during the night and after- noon. No definite charge has been placed lfllnl‘.lnhmn.butthac«mnecficuz law fixes no limit on the length of time a person may be held only on ‘Alcorn and Hickey would not discuss s e ey sailar an cal gnim immediate intention of releasing Alcorn said, however, that reports he had confessed to participsting in the abduction of the 20-month-old boy ‘were withput foundation. Hickey Takes Botile. A milk bottle and its cap were found tn Johnson's car outside the home of brother John in West Hartford. Hickey took the bottle from the build- aftasnoon ot e by G HE captor of Pat Crowe, the . most notorious kidn: present century, thin! duction of the for permission to question % explained that they repre- [an amateur. New Jersey officers in general| M. P. Mclnerney, now 2 special in- t, while the latter had not been tor in the Government service cited three reasons for his 5 “pirst, whoever stole the baby from his crib knew the exact location of the infant's room in the big house. “Second, he knew the baby was at home on that particular night and not .| at his grandmother’s, in Englewood, N. J., where the Lindberghs are accus- tomed to staying, except on week ends. he knew the shutter to the window in the baby’s room was un- latched—probably for the first time since the Lindberghs had stayed at esda ht, but she could not re- T‘-;mbe; :kilither he was there all eve- ning. It was Tuesday night that the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped. Clippings In Bag. i travel Johnson br m‘:uw:s sflmbc‘:nculn & number of ;jwspuw clippings about the kidnap- The County Bullding was surrounded throughout the day by throngs of per- of whom had been drawn ing the evening, although Persons maintained a vigll outside the basement door. Post office officials announced they had forwarded promptly s special de- livery letter mailed here last night ad- dressed to Mrs. Anne Lindbergh and also a posteard addressed “Chas. Lin- = Post office Inspectors read the card,|® et. o “J" in reversed NEW LEADS FOLLOWED. century Mulrooney Directs New York Angle|foitc\iof The arested Crowe nearly of Investigation. NEW YORK, March 5 (#).—Detec- on three or four | O] dbergh kidnaping case in New York tonight, Police Com- missioner Mulrooney announced, as he himself continued a personal investi- gaton of an of the mystery. “And I will continue to work on it cleaned he said. “It until it is up,” has not developed yet, but I warked on it until 2 o'clock this morning and intend to work further on it.” Detectives spent hours today investi- gating the possibility the ladder left behind by the kidnapers had been taken m the Consolidated Shipbullding Corporation’s yards in the Bronx. It is there that Thomas W. Lamont's yacht is kept, & craft on which Henry (Red) Johnson, detained in Hartford, Conn,, in connection with the Lind- bergh case, worked until January 19. Employes at the yards said Johnson there a week ago to get some personal belongs he had left behind. Detectives found 120 ladders in the shipyard, but none resembled the one at_Hopewell, N. J. Bruce Bchingeour, general manager of the said he n, ¢ had never seen a ladder in the yard like the one used in the kidnaping, and that no one would be able to leave the yard with a ladder without being seen by LABOR OPENS DRIVE T0 GET 2.75 BEER Darrow and Woll Urge Dry Law Modification at Kansas City By the Associated Press KANSAS CITY, March §—A plea for 2.75 per cent beer was voiced here | tonight at a rally characterized as| organized labor’s first shot in & con- certed Nation-wide campaign. Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, and Clarence Darrow, Chicago attorney | urged modification of the Volstead act to create an industry whereby they as- serted the national economic structure could be strengthened. They addressed more than 5,000 per- | sons at Convention Hall. Darrow (tx-‘t pressed pleasure that labor “is using its influence to put down hypocrisy and | bigotry in America.” ur péliticlans don't care about re- peal” he sald. “Why should they? They get all the liquor they want. “Our people have submitted tamely to the W. C. T. U, the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, the Anti-Saloon League and other fanatical organizations. Now it's time for labor to awaken the coun- #ry and accomplish something.” Among persons in attendance were Martin F. Ryan, internatiopal presi- dent of the Rallway Carmen of America; R. T. Wood, Springfield, Mo., president of the Missouri State Federa- tion of Labor. John Pfeiffer, inter- national secretary of the Leather ‘Workers of America, and Joseph Oberg- fell, Cincinnati, international secretary- ney still has spark their country estate.” “Amateur, Not Smart at That.” McInerney, whose capture of Pat Crowe, kidnaper of Edward A. Cudahy, ir., heir to the meat packer's millions, put his name and photograph In every newspaper in the country back in 1805, is convinced the Lindbergh baby kid- naping “is not the work of a profes- slonal.” “Only an amateur, and not a very smart one at that, would attempt to steal & baby of the importance of the Lindvergh heir,” he said. “T am positive it was the work of an amateur. No professional could see his | ¥ way clear to collecting the ransom or retuming tha baby misly. It too ot “While the clean ke the work of a 1t was just & Jucky bell” get-away does look rofessional, I believe for some dumb- McInerney declared he favors capital punishment for kidnaping, asserting “it is the cruelest of all es, and the death penalty is the only thing that will put & stop to it.” Recalls Capture of Crowe. Although now 60 years old, McIner- the figure and youthful he possessed more than a quarter- when, as city detective of five years after the noted bad man abducted young Cudahy, then 14 years id. Last night he recalled the capture. “Crowe arrived in Butte about the of September, 1905, MecIherney began, “For several days we had been e what we thought to be rumors about being in town. Butte was pretty tough on lawbreakers, and we | ddn't think a man of Crowe's type would have the nerve to come there. “But on the night of October 1, as I was making the rounds with my part- ner, I was accosted by a woman, Bert dams. A“S.hg told us a man had been calling on her frequently of late and a brace of guns on his shoulders had attracted her attention. The man, she said, went under the name of Harry King, but one night after he had fallen asleep she found from an amulet around his neck that he was Crowe. N “'He's the man we want’ I told| her, ‘and we're going to get him' So| my partner and I arranged with a land- lady across the street to get a room| for the night which overlooked the entrance to Bert Adams' home, Signal Arranged. “But samehow we mis;;;:ln};ém. After laying in wait until mi we we over to see Bert Adams. She told us Crowe had been to see her and had left, but that we had no reason to | slarmed, he would return the following | night, as she had his confidence and | he believed her to be his friend | “At 6 o'clock the next evening we took up our stand in the room we had engaged and waited for Crowe. Bert had given us an accurate description | of him and had told us she would flash a red light three times in the| Wwindow as soon . as he ived. “While we were waiting we decided | to arrest Crowe as son as he came from Bert's room. Crowe was 8 man who boasted he had been ‘in 52 pitched battles with bulls and only carrled 3 bullets in his body,’ so we dldn’t want | to take any unnecessary chances with him. Also, we wanted to bring him in alive—there was $55000 in rewards offered for his arrest and return to Omaha. “A few minutes after 9 o'clock a man answering Crowe's description entered Bert Adsms' place and I called my partner's attention to him. It was not long before the red light flashed three times. “The two of us rushed out on the sidewalk, and as we were crossing the street, Bert Adams came out of the house. Gets Crowe’s Revolver. | “1 fanned him clean, boys,’ she said to us, ‘and this was the only gun on him.* “She handed me a gun—a small .32- caliber revolver. We told her of our plans to grab him as soon as he came out the door. She agreed and went back to get Crowe. Returning a moment | ater, she said: “‘He's like & wildcat in that room; swears he won't leave it without his . I won't go back to him.’ “I then told her to wait for him to come out. Pretty soon he came into the bar room adjoining Bert's place | and asked for her. The bartender told him she had gone out on the sidewalk. “The door opened and Crowe ap- peared. He was silhouetted against the bright lights of the saloon. | ““There he is,' cried Bert “My gun was drawn and T stuck it in Crowe’s stomach. treasurer of the Brewery Workers' Union. _— o , Austria, now has s population 1 - 4 “‘Throw up your hands, Crowe’' I Grab Made for Pistol. l THE SUNDAY Crowe’s Captor Comments THINKS LINDBERGH KIDNAPER WAS “AMATEUR." Upper: Pat Crowe, photographed the day he was arrested for abducting the Cudahy heir. Lower: M. P. McInerney of Wash- ington, the detective who trapped Crowe. gun hard into his abdomen, I said: “‘Put ’em up to the sky, Crowe; don't you see whose stomach that gun is in?’ “He replied, ‘Hold on, don’t get ner- “I'm not nervous, Crowe, but you put ’em up and touch the sky,' I sald. “He did. We searched him, then started up to Main street to get a hack to take him to the county jail. On the corner we met Chief of Police Thomas Mulholland and told him we had just d together we took s the heavy Hon doors of the jal clanged shut on Crowe, he said: thank God—I reached this and his partner never he rewards, however. The $25.000 offer of Edward A. Cudahy, sr., for the return of his son had been withdrawn and there were “so many strings” to the other offers, as Mc- Inerney put it, he couldn't get the money. Career Reads Like Fiction. The history of Crowe reads like fle- tion stories of wild West gunmen. At 33, when he kidnaped the Cudahy boy, December 18, 1900, Crowe was an old hand at crime. A suave talker, he had fleeced hundreds of women of more than $200,000 in jewelry, had held up trains, broken into jewelry stores, killed people and run the whole gamut of underworld life. Fleeing police after the Cudahy ab- duction, he crossed the Atlantic to Eu- rope, went to Africa, where he fought for a while in the Boer War against England, recrossed the ocean to South | America, came up the west coast of that continent and into California and to Montana. At one time he laid plans, according to his own confession, to kidnap John D. Rockefeller and hold him for $2- 000,000 ransom. The plot fell through, he ‘clalmed, when a confederate “got cold feet and spilled the beans.” But he never served a day in the Eenltenmry for kidnaping the Cudahy €] ir. When he was returned to Omaha | ®Xh® it was found the Nebraska kidnaping law had not been passed until after the famous abduction. Tried on charges of highway robbery for having taken $25,- be | 000 in ransom money from the roadside, he was acquitted when the prosecution failed to prove he received the money. McInerney came to Washington about 10 years after he captured Crowe and entered the Government service, in which he has been ever since. He | raised two sons here, one of whom is Wilbert McInerney, United States attorney. John M. McInerney. GERMAN DIPLOMAT SHOT BY MOSCOW ASSAILANT By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, March 5.—Dr. Fritz von Twardowski, counsellor of the German embassy, was wounded in the neck and hand today by & young assassin, who fired four pistol shots at him as he was riding home in his car from the em- = y Police overpowered the assailant im- mediately and identified him as Judas Stern, once a student at Moscow Uni- versity. They were at a loss, however, to assign a motive for the crime. The diplomat’s chauffeur drove quickly to a hospital and Ambassador von Dirksen arrived a few minutes later, Shortly sfterward two representatives 5f the Soviet government came to ex- press the government's regret for the incident. Dr. Twardowski will remain at the hospital until he has recovered, but his wounds were not serious. now assistant The other is School Children Beg Kidnapers to Take Baby Home By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, March 5.— Children of Central School here today addressed personal appeals to the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby through newspapers. 80 great was the interest shown by the children that their teach- ers called upon them to write impromptu appeals, and some of them were printed with the pos- sibility in mind that similar ap- “My partner this time had m"rw.wtwumumm: throughou ooy m;mfi'mm-mm‘ s napers to he grabbed for it. Pressing my | STAR, W LAW FORCES UNITE 10 FIND KIDNAPER nique Gathering in Trenton Hears of Faint Clues Available. 3 (Continued Prom Pirst Page) nected with State or Federal law en- forcement organizations. Selection of an outstanding clergyman or lawyer was suggested. The conference was held behind heavily doors, and Gov. Moore announced that every precsution had been taken to keep out nmewspapermen. Gov. Moore laid befare the criminal investigators, after formally opening the conference, all of the evidence that has been found since the baby's disappear- ance. Notes Furnish Clues. It consisted solely of the three-sec- tion ladder. used by the kidnapers in climbing into the nurseny in the Lind- bergh home, and two notes, one left on the nursery window demanding $50,000 ransom for the return of the child, and the other sent ti h the mail an- nouncing that the baby was safe. Neither of the notes, the words on which were printed in pencil, was read to the investigators. A handwriting expert explained, however, that out of the hundreds of messages received by the Lindberghs or directed to them and intercepted in the mail, only one bore printed letters resembling those on the ransom note. The chirographic expert also ex- pressed the opinion that both of the notes had been printed by a person trained in either engineering or archi- tecture, since the characteristics of some of the letters were those to_engineers and architects. ‘The three-section ladder used by the ki s was_studied closely by the inve tors. Though obviously home- made, it was observed that the ladder was constructed scientifically. Made for Long-Legged Man. The cross bars were about 21, feet apart, which several of the detectives pointed out, indicated that it probably was used by a man with long legs. A man with short legs, it was declared, would have had difficulty using the lgu- der, particularly in descending with a baby in his arms. The three sections of the ladder, when put together, measures about 18 feet, just long enough to reach the nursery window from the ground on a safe angle. The cross bars on the two upper sections were mortised in place, providing a maximum of strength. the lower section thg cross bars were not mortised, and depended entirely on nails for their strength, an indication, according to several of the detectives, that the ladder was made without any unnecessary loss of time, yet assuring safety at a dangerous height. The investigators pointed out it was constructed in three sections so it could be conveniently carried in an auto- mobile. It was the consensus of the in- vestigators that the kidnaping was the work of amateurs. The crime, it was , bore none of the earmarks of professionals, though the result was successfully achleved. Professionals, it was brought out, would have selected a child not so prominent as the Lind- bergh baby and whose abduction would not have aroused the entire Nation. Implicate More Than One. The criminal authorities also voiced the opinion that more than one per. son was connected with the kidnaping. A woman was involved, according to their expressions. No theories were offered as to who might have committed the crime. The collection of ransom was the only theory advanced as to the motive for the deed. It also was brought out that the kidnapers probably had attempted, or would attempt, to shield the identity of the child by clipping its light curls or dying the hair. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, who represented President Hoover at the conference, left imme- diately merbmpvl:mu I% reott\;lrne%o ‘Washington by plane. e other offi- cials and detectives remained for lunch- eon as guests of Gov. Moore, and a large group afterward went to Hopewell to inspect the Lindbergh home. “We all appreciate the serious nature of this crime” Gov. Moore said in og:iflnz the conference. “It is an open challenge to the law enforcement offi- clals of this State and this Nation. It is hardly necessary to mention the ASHINGTON, On | Reflly, D. C., MARCH 6, Glassford Orders Intensive Capital Search for Baby dential,” were issued to members of the Metropolitan Police De- mmm last night by Maj. Pel- D. Glassford, superintend- ent, immediately after his Te- turn from a conference of police officials on the Lindbergh baby Kkidnaping case in Trenton, N. J. The orders are und to contain plans for a tic search in Washington for the abducted R “The Police Department.” MaJ. Glassford announced, “will _con- tinue the search for the Lind- child with unabated ac- tivity. We will act with the same intensity and interest as if the kidnaping had occurred in the District of Columbia.” In_addition wdmlhflmyfi the Washington departmen represented at the conference by Inspector Frank B. chief of detectives. police, Boston; Thomas E. Bigh, chief of detectives, Massachusetts Depart- ment of Public Safety; W. B. Mills, Philadelphia superintendent of police; Kern Dodge, director of public safety, Philadelphia; Joseph A. Gerk, St. Louis chief of police; J. Edgar Hoover, chief, Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; William J. Cussen, lieutenant detective, Chicago; John A. Swanson, prosecutor, Cook County, Chicago; Pat Roche, chief investigator, Cook County; William Cody, chief of detectives, Cleveland; Inspector Willlam J. Col- lins, Detroit; Frank E. Brex, deputy police chief, Newkark; James A. Mc- Crell, chief of police, Newark; Asher Rossetter, general manager, Pinkertons, - H. 8. 13. New York; H. S. Mosher, manager criminal department, Pinkertons, New k; Inspector John A. Lyons, New Commissioner Austin J. Roche, John A. Regan, secretary to commissioner of police, Buffalo; R. Snook, State Bureau of Identification, New Jersey State police; Patrick Dolan, chief of Hudson County police, Jersey City; William P. Walter, chief of police, Trenton; Willlam J. Collins, of detectives, Detroit; Thomas J. Wolfe, chief of police, Jersey City; Inspector Harry Walsh, Jersey City; Samuel W. Gearhart, Pennsylvania State police; James McDevitt, department superin- tendent, Boston; George F. Spencer, in- spector police, Pennsylvania Railroad Co., New York; Hobart A. Templeton, Bohce headquarters, Newark; Pelham , Glassford, superintendent of police, Washington, D. C.; Inspector Frank 8. W. Burke, chief of detectives of Washington, D. C.; T. F. Baughman, assistant to director, Washington, D. C.; Bert C. Farrar, examiner of questioned documents, Washington, D. C.; Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent State police, New Jersey; Edward A. police commissioner, Newark; Peter P. Walsh, superintendent of police, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Gabriel di Piore, United States secret service operative, New York City; Raymond A. Horton, United States ~secret service operative, New York City; John Milton, Jersey City; J. F. Rochlin, lieutenant of police, New York; J. A. Paxson, representing the mayor, Atlantic City; James P. Malseed, inspector of police, Atlantic City; 8. M. Lippman, acting chief of police, Atlantic City; Thomas McCarvey, police detective, 'Philadel- phia; E. J. Connelley, special agent in charge, United States Bureau of In- vestigation, Department of Justice, New York City; W. Sherman Burns, Burns Detective Agency, New York City; Maj. C. H. Schoeffel, New Jersey State police: Lieut. W. J. Coughlin, New Jersey Gtate police. GOVERNOR DEFENDS GIRL. “She’s All Right” He Says of Nurse After Parley. BY FRANCIS A. JAMIESON, Associated Press Staff Editor. (Copyright, 1932, by the Assoctated Press). HOPEWELL, N. J., March 5.—. lief the kidnapers of chubby-faced Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr., will soon restore the stolen child to his parents was expressed today by master man hunters of the East as they sat at a conference with Gov. A. Harry Moore. ‘The Governor himself announced the consensus of what he called “thc brains of the police and law enforce- ment circles of the country” as the meeting ended in Trenton and the con- ferees started for here. He dispelled reports concerning the nursemaid, Miss Betty Gow, who was subjected to lengthy questioning earlier in the week, by saying: “That girl's all right.” He sald she admitted having “dates” with Johnson prior to the kidnaping, but that no significance was attached heart-rending grief into which the par-|to the ents have been plunged. All Agencies Invoked. “The people of New Jersey have a particular reason for a deep sympathy for them and a sense of responsibility for_recovery of the child and the ap- prehension of the criminals. “As Governor of New Jersey I have endeavored to place every agency in the State on the trail of the criminals and have used every means possible to trace them and to restore this child to its parents. During the past few days every ordinary and extraordinary police measure for the detection and apprehension of the offenders has been usted. “I ask the co-operation of every man here upon his return to his own city and section to make every possible effort, through his department and the allied departments of law enforcement for the detection and apprehension of criminals, to aid in recovery of the child. We have here all the evidence and clues, which will be presented for your study. Statement fo Press. Several hours after the conference Gov. Moore issued a statement to the press, outlining briefly the results of the conference. It follows: “It is the general opinion of those who have given the fullest consideration to the known facts in the kidnaping crime that it has been comml by amateurs and not by professional crim- . It bears none of the earmarks of those practiced in crime, even though the result has been successfully achieved. “Police of every State in the Union and the long arm of the Federal Gov- ernment are united in the search for the criminals and the restoration of the child to its parents. “It is our belief that with this knowl- edge the kidnapers will soon recognize that their only hope for successful flight and safety lies in their giving u the child by some method that will assure its safe and uninjured return. So long as they retain the child they are in constant danger. “Its destruction would enormously in- crease thelr guilt, their danger, and their certain ultimate retribution to the law and avenging justice. Expect Child’s Safety. “It is our bellef and hope that they will immediately deposit the child in some safe place, and by prompt notice to the police or Col. Lindbergh person- ally enable it to be returned in safety to_its parents. “This they will do, it is thought, to relieve themselves from what tuey must see is a constant incumbrance to their freedom of movement and a hopeless drag on their efforts at flight.” Those at Conference. Participants at the conference in- cluded: Thomas J. Wolfe_ chief of police, Jersey City; John Milton, counsel to Gov. Moore; Col. William H. Kelly, aid to the Governor; Inspector John Lyons of New York, Chief Inspector John O'Brien of New York, Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City and vice chair- man of the National Democratic Com- Pubite. sately of Newste.'Capt. Bulger pul lewark e of New York City police, Capt. James McDevitt, ity superintendent J. deput em. In Brooklyn police searched the room of Fred Johnson, the sailor’s brother, with whom the arrested man had stayed last week. The brother said the seaman came from Norway nine years ago, had never been in trouble, had met Miss Gow last Summer and was very much in love with her. “They would be married,” he said, “but work for a sailor in Winter time is slack.” Ladder Sent For. The law enfoycement officials who attended the Qovernor's conference, designed to co-ordinate the search for the missing child, came from as far West as Cglcngo and included several representatives of President Hoover from the Department of Justice. ‘There was feeling among some of the officials that an even stronger offer of immunity than made yesterday by the Lindberghs should be issued. While they were discussing the case behind closed doors, the ladder the kidnapers used was sent for and taken into the conference room. Later, a number of the conferees came to the Lindbergh estate to inspect the scene of the crime. The statement Giov. Moore gave out after the meeting read: == e who' have given the fullest considera tion to the known facts i the kidnap- ing crime that it has b#tn committed by amateurs and not Hp professional criminals. It bears none of the ear- marks of those practiced in crime, even though the result has been suc- cessfully achieved. “Police of every State in the Union and the long arm of the Federal Gov- ernment are united in the search for the criminals and the restoration of the child to its parents. It is our belief that with this knowledge the kidnapers will soon recognize thaf their only hope for successful flight and sgafety lies in their giving up the child by some method that will as- sure its safe and uninjured return. So long as they retain the child they are in constant danger. Sees Baby's Return. “Its destruction would enormously increase their guilt, their danger, and thefr certain ultimate retribution to the law and avenging gxusuce. “It is our bellef and hope that they will immediately deposit the child in some safe place and by prompt notice to the ce or Col. Lindbergh per- sonally enable it to be returned in they will do, it is thought, to relieve themselves from what they must see is a constant encumbrance to their freedom of movement and a hopeless drag on their efforts at flight.” John A. Swanson, State's attorney of Cook County (Chicago), IIl, said he ly thought the first considera- on should be to “get the child back.” No specific formula could be worked out, he added, to deal with kidnaping solutions in general. A centralized control of the man- hunt, preferably by Federal authorities, was advocated by Swanson. It was not learned how the conference greeted this on. Girth, St. Louls, Mo., chief | safety to its parents. Joseph A. s gl bergh's oid home town Ehnd- Kirn Dodge, public safety director of the | the outset. 1932—PART ONE. Damon and Pythias on Job TEAM THAT CONVICTED HUGH M. By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., March 5—The Damon and Pythias team of Hartford County law enforcers undertook today to try to solve the kidnaping of the U fo e rney Hugh M. Alcorn and County Detective Edward J. Hickey, noted for their successful prosecution of Gerald Chapman, who was hanged for slaying & New Britain policeman, have taken charge of the examination of Henry (Red) Johnson, Englewood, N. ailor, held without charge by request of Englewood police. Quizzed Eight Hours. All night the two men shot question after question at Johnson, a friend of Betty Gow, the baby's nurse. They asked him how he happened to be in Hartford at the home of his brother John; how he happened to be driving & green coupe, said to resemble the kid- napers’ car; how a milk bottle hap- pened to be in the rumble seat. These and dozens of other querles were hammered at the sailor for it hours. Then Hickey and Alcorn called it a night and went home to rest until 11 am. But not & word did they say about Johnson'’s answers. Newspaper men and ALCORN, a crowd of curious Hartford residents CHAPMAN HUNTS BABY. EDWARD J. HICKEY. waited in vain for a statement. Secrecy | is one of their cardinal principles. Once Hickey stepped into a corridor of the county building to say the ex- amination had given them an impor- tant clue. At another time Alcorn ex- pressed displeasure because information he had telephoned to the New Jersey Governor’s office had been made public. Frequent Successes. The team has been trailing—and in- | variably solving—mysteries since the| close of the World War. Alcorn haa‘ been prosecutor here since 1907, and | after serving in the Department of | Justice while American soldiers were in | France, Hickey joined him. ‘The Chapman case was typical of their methods of co-ordinating their labors. Hickey collected evidence. He trailed Chapman to Muncie, Ind., and arrested him for the murder of a po- liceman. State’s attorney. Alcorn got down his law books and correlated the evidence to the law. ‘Then they went to court—and won. ‘Those who have followed their careers are wondering whether solution of the Lindbergh case will be another victory for the pair. CALM MASKS MOTHER'S GRIEF AS SHE WAITS NEWS OF BABY Sits and Waits, Day |3 After Day, as Search for Kidnaped Child Goes On. Mrs. Lindbergh Just By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J., March 5—1In the big, bleak white house on Sourland Mountain, a mother somehow passes the hours and the days, waiting for word of her missing son. How does she fill them? Does she try to follow the myriad, futile de- velopments of the search? Does she try to occupy herself with household duties? “No,” said a friend of the family today. “She doesn't plan any meals. She doesn't do anything. She just ‘waits, that's all.” Even the host of strangers who have filed in and out of those big doors which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife intended to lead to a home secluded from public glare, have been struck by glimpses of her face, pale, calm, tense. “But anyone who is with her an hour,” said the friend, “gets a desper- ate feeling that something simply must be done. But there is nothing to do.” Father Often at Phone. Col. Lindbergh himself goes often to the phone. If there is & seemingly good clue, an important message, he will jump to answer it himself. But for her, there is not even that. After the first night she hardly has left the house and stays most of the time upstairs. Downstairs now is an endless stream of detectives, callers, messengers. ¢ The baby was smiling and happy Tuesday night, better from his cold. Betty Gow, the nurse, stayed in Engle- woad last week end, because it was thoaight she would not be needed, but when the cold came Monday she was sent for. She arrived Tuesday morning. and Charles was much better by evening. Just before bedtime he was in the Kkitchen to say good-night to the house- keeper, Mrs. Elsle Wheatley, to whom he is much attached. Then to bed, with never a dark thought in the minds of the parents. Over and over in these long days the mother's mind must have gone back to the moment when Miss Gow, who had gone up at 10 o'cl the milk to the nursery, rush: the unbelievable news. Sleepless, Terrible Night. ‘The night was sleepless and terrible. Then came Wednesday, with the grow- ing numbers of police, detectives, call- ers, newspaper reporters, cameramen and many of the curious. Every glance from the windows showed the crowd, milling about in the mud of the new grounds, not yet gar- dened. Olie Wheatley, the butler, and his wife were busy with provisions for extra visitors. ‘That night Mrs. Lindbergh had some sleep, she told callers next day, and looked a little rested. ‘Thursday passed. The hunt grew and the circle widened. Trusted servants were questioned, minutely, carefully. ‘Wheatley's turn came after his wife's and Betty Gow’s. He said he feared he could not stand it, caring for the baby as he did, as they all did. Friday, Mrs. Lindbergh was persuaded to rest, and she was in bed much of the time, the friend said. Today was the fourth of waiting, still without word, so far as any one could learn. Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Ann's mother, has been with her almost constantly, the two women drawn together with common grief and anxiety. Elisabeth has remained in Englewood, directing her work at a pre-kindergarten school. Philadelphia, said “the entire sources” of that city would be behind the search. Everybody Questioned. Early in the day the investigators, who are maintaining 24-hours-a-day headquarters in the Lindbergh garage, announced “every one within 10 or 15 miles of the Lindbergh estate has been questioned.” SchoefTel said that at the time of his conference with newspaper men no one was being interrogated there. “Are investigators any nearer solu- tion of the case than they were the night of the kidnaping?” he was asked. “There is nothing I can say ‘yes’ about,” he replied. He spiked a wild rumor the kidnap- ers had used an airplane, by remark- ing that any one using that mode of transportation “wouldn’t have brought a cheap ladder with them.” He said to his knowledge there had Eeeenh no dmcthm between Col. Lind- Dot know Whether the mnrioas Tt had made any complaint Tumors were being citculated T 1t Early tonight there was a material reduction in the size of the police force maintained at the Lindbergh home. The guard at the barrier of the estate, however, was increased from two to eight. There was the usual activity of officers dashing here and there in auto- mobiles and following clues, Superintendent H. Norman Schwarz- | kopf of the State police appeared in | personal charge of the searching tivities. Thus far the investigation here had centered in a “board of strategy,” which included Schwarzkopf, William J. Egan, director of public safety of New- ark, and Inspector Harry Walsh of Jersey City, a veteran detective. | Nervous and restless, although far from exhausted, Col. Lindbergh, himself spent much of the time springing from & chair to answer the telephone and walking from room to room of his! Te- wn O cetoneh sil essed onel, sf dre in a A pencil-striped ‘suit and a flannel Shizt | he had worn duripg the greater part of the time since the baby was kid- | naped, spoke In short sentences and continued none of his conversations for more than a few minutes at a time. | Constantly at the side of the Lind- berghs were Col. and Mrs. Henry Breck- inridge, socially prominent New Yorkers and old friends. For years Col. Breck- inridge, an attorney, has assisted the colonel in his personal affairs, Rendezvous Planned. It was indicated that should commu- nication be established wnhdthe i napers, a rendezvous far from Hopewell would be selected for any negotiations. Col. Lindbergh was understood to favor further survey of the Sourland Mountain area by air. The Quiet Bird- | men, a secret organization of famous | fiyers, of which the colonel is a mem- ber, offered their assistance to him at Army planes may be em- ployed in additional p the country, and police also be placed aboard the ships. MISSION SPEAKER JAILED Robbed Homes at Night, Say Phil- adelphia Police. ARDMORE, Pa, March 5 (P.—A |are man said by police to have been en- gaged in speaking in Philadelphia missions at night and in robbing homes in the day time was arrested here today. They sald the prisoner, Frederick Biggart, 45, also known as Arlington, spoke in_the missions on the topic “Why I Reformed.” In his room in Philadelphia, authorities said, was property stolen from more than 30 homes in this section. A Negro with Biggart at the time of his arrest was also held. With 1,680 hours of sunshine, Seaford lock with ed in with | judged BANKRUPTCY LAWS FAIL, SAYS THACHER Solicitor General Blames Gain in Failures on Laxity, Waste and Fraud. BY JOHN F. CHESTER, Associated Press Staff Writer. There will be fewer bankruptcy cases in the United States if the energetic solicitor general of the Justice Depart- ment has his way. Thomas D. Thacher, after an inten- sive 18 months' probe, has convinced himself that the sudden soaring of bankruptcy liabilities annually into the billion-dollar class is resulting not from world-wide economic strain but fram far-flung laxity, waste and fraud under | bankruptey law and practice. In fact, the solicitor general believes emphatically the present law has failed. After peering personally or through the eyes of his assistants into 16 States, examining thousands of cases, and reading the reports of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and other national organizations which ase sisted, he has scattered these conclu= sions through a 400-page report: The Bankruptcy Court has increas ingly become a dumping ground for the refuse of commercial wreckage, and & sanctuary where debtors obtain cancel- lation of their debts regardless of how they may have wasted their property. Engouraged to Repeat. “Debtors who by such conduct have imposed heavy losses upon those who trusted them are turned back by thou= sands into the trading community, en couraged to repeat their offenses with impunity. “A duchuze (of debts) is & pri which should be granted only to who, upon inquiry, are found deser: 3 but the statute, in effect, treats the discharge as a right, which should be denied only upon the proof of fraud by the creditors.” The solicitor general's findings, coupled with his draft of a highly technical bill covering more than 100 pages to amend the existing bankruptcy act, were made public in conjunction with President Hoover’'s special message to Congress this week on law enforce= ment. The Chief Executive adopted almos§ verbatim many of Thacher’s criticisms and recommendations. Steps already are underway in both the Senate and the House to cut down the number of bankruptcies, plug the loopholes and stem waste and corruption under the W. Senator Hastings, Republican, Dela« ware, has introduced a measure based upon Thacher's suggestions. Chairman Sumners of the House Judiclary Come mittee has promised hearings within 10 days lool toward “a complete overhauling of the bankruptcy laws.” Some of Goals Stated. Here are some of the goals aimed at; To stop up “an obvious loophole® through which those who remove or hide assets in advance of bankruptcy havetbem escaping criminal punishe menf To provide “protection of the court” for honest debtors who could pay out of future earnings without being ad- ju bankrupts. To increase the compensation of trustees and appoint competent officials to exu:lu!ne nclll bankruptcy plea. ‘Thacher's prolon| mvesugflon closed that p:.onm‘:’dwy lab dll-m swiftly during the decade from 1921 from $171.000,000 to $1,008.,000,000, and from figure losses $911,000,000 resulted to creditors. A break up of court records during 1930 disclosed that more than 73 per cemt of the bankrupts of that year had less than $100 in assets. tion of bankrupt estates, Thacher found that in some instances the trustees ap- pointed were real estate agents, line station attendants and rai employes, and that the referees fre- quently appointed clerks in their own oftnym or relatives to act in this capa- city. ‘To straighten out such evils, he urged that additional compensation be ‘:lrem the trustees, that legal formalities be dispensed with whenever possible and ngév.y . Pll”etdmm relym 0sen on! b b‘:‘lxlml.: &tn’onnel."y Sie , from his 18-month inquiry, Thacher decided that the unwarran glrggpmondor assets and loose ion under the law had “more fulfilled the gloomy prophecy” mld'.::: many when the present act was drafted. Were it not for the nsibility of the Government “upon which all laws e "E‘“lfi.d'; b};e indicated, he might ook Wi avor U] of the existing act. 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