Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1932, Page 5

~a_ THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, MARCH 6, 1 —PART ONE. EARLY KIDNAPINGS RECALLEDINU.§ Ross and Cudahy Cases Left Mark—U. S. Law Just Crystallizing. The disappearance of Charley Ross, nearly 58 years ago, first catapulted kidnaping into the realm of major crimes in this country and started the movement—only now crystallizing—to make abduction of children an offense against the Government, The kidnaping of the 4. -old Ress boy on July 1. 1874. at Germantow: a suburb of Philadelphia, aroused the Nation as no similar crime before 1 had done, and as other kidnapings fol- Jowed in later years, the public agita- tion for adequate Federal laws became more vigorous. The most insistent demands for Fed- eral legislation came with kidnap- ing of 1l-year-old Edward Cudahy in Omaha in 1900, but, with the safe return of the packer’s son and the im prisonment of his abductor, Pat Crowe, public clamor died down and Congress did nothing. Results Now Expected. Indications are that the kidnaping of Baby Lindbergh will result in prompt and effective action gress that will provide authority Federal in- vestigative forces to relentless warfare on kidnapers The demand for ranson. the attempt to negotiate, the hundreds of false and heart-breaking clues run down by police and the widespread indignation of the people in the Lindbergh case rTecall similar events s\A‘mch marked the ley Ross kidnaping. Chéxrwyle)n Surly-haired son of Chris- tian Ross, a drygoods merchant, was kidnaped from a lane near his home in Germantown by two men, who drove up in & carriage and invited him to go for a ride. His parents never saw him C for wage again. Charley was playing with an older brother when the men approached. The strangers had accosted the boys on several occasions before that, obtaining thelr friendship with brives of candy and toys. The boys readily consented to go with the men wnen they were invited to take a ride. Older Boy Left Behind. Th men drove for a short distance and then asked the older boy to go into & store and buy himself some firs- crackers. The boy left, and the men whipped the horses up and the carriage disappeared. i Tge frantic father notified police and then inserted in a Philadelphia news- paper an advertisement as follows: “Three hundred dollars reward will be d to the person returning to No. 5 m‘nh 6th street a small boy, 4 years ©old, having long curly flaxen hair, hazel eyes, clear light skin, round face, dressed in a brown linen suit with short skirt, broad-brimmed straw hat and Jaced shoes. Child lost from Germ: town on Wednesday afternoon, 1st in stant, between 4 and 5 o'clock.” A second ad repeating the offer of & reward was inserted on July 6. On July 7 there appeared in the “Per- sonal” column of the Philadelphia Public Ledger the item: “Ross—We be ready to negotiate.” On the same day the father received an anonymous letter demanding $20,000 for the return of the child. The letter said the boy was ‘in good hands” and was well cared for and explained that the large sum asked for his return was necessary because it has cost the “par- tles concerned” a large amount of money to obtain the boy. Insist on $20,000. The father answered the demands i1 an_advertisement which said: “Ross will come to terms to extent of his ability.” The father had been well to do for some years, but had lost most of his money in the financial panic of 1873. When he was advised through another advertisement in the newspaper that the kidnapers would be satisfied with noth- ing less than $20.000, he replied in an advertisement: “Ross is willing, but have not got it. Am doing my best to get it.” Came the reply in a letter: “We know you are not worth much money, | but we are aware that you have rich friends of whom you can borrow, 1f you love money better than your child, its blood be on your own head.” That was the first threat that the| child would come to harm unless the ransom was paid. Other letters fo lowed, with threats of inhuman cruei and death to the Loy, One letter said, “Any attempt to as- certain the child’s hiding place will re- sult in its entire annihilation. We will turn the child up on our own terms.” Another said, “We know our business and we are going to fight it out.” The father announced in an adver- tisement on July 13 that he had se- cured the sum demanded and was ready - to pay. Promise to Act in Good Faith. | He received a letter saying, “We will act in good faith I 1 we do | ot expect you to act falsely toward us. | If you do, the consequences will your own head. We do this to show | you that we will act fair with you, that others may know that we keep our | word."” Another letter conveyed the informa- tion that the kidnapers had taken the Ross boy by “mistake,” but that, since they had him, they would hold out for i the money. In response to an advertisement by the father asking how the money should Police Officials Attend Kidnap Conference Photograph of The group was photographed in {ron! the large group of police officials of 10 cities who assembled in Trenton, N. J.. vesterday at the behest of Gov. A. Harry Moore of New Jersey to confer on the Lindbergh case. Prominent officials of many States answered the call and offered suggestions for possible use in the case. t of the State House. —A. P. Photo. HOPEWELL LIKE AS CURIOUS By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J. kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby has thrown this out-of-the-way hamlet of 1,800 persons into adventure and drama that grows more fantastic as the mys- tery drags on. Hundreds of newspaper men. photog- raphers, detectives, State troopers and curious witnesses have practically com- mandeered every home in town, giving it the resemblance of a base of war to- day. Automobiles and airplanes move swiftly through the night checking every clue. Searchlights sweep across the country and guards patrol every- where. Not since the Hall-Mills case at Somerville has such a flood of outsiders Citizens of Hopewell, anxious to do everything they can to assist in restoring young Lindburgh to his parents, have been exceedingly hospitable. Tops Low Mountain. No one but officials can penetrate the cordon of State troopers to approach the Lindbergh home where it nestles atop a low mountain. With its lights ablaze, it shines forth at night across the valleys like a beacon anxious to guide the missing child home. Two main roads pass on each side of the house, each a little less than a mile away. In front of the house, about a half mile distant, there is Featherbed lane, which connects these two roads. This lane, in which the kidnapers are supposed to have con- cealed their car while they were at March 5.—The | swept down upon a New Jersey drama. | WAR BASE f CROWD VILLAGE| Searchlights Sweep Country With Guards on Patrol as Autos and Planes Rush Through Night. | the house, is practically no road at sll trails that cuts through a wilderness of woods. It must have been an ideal place to hide the kidnapers' car, for Featherbed lane is virtually invisible from the main roads. Excitement seems to stir more up- | sets. The village has had six fires since | the kidnaping. Records show that the | town averages only about one fire a year | normally. Primitive Neighborhood. This section of New Jersey is com- posed largely of primitive mountain neighborhoods. Lindbergh has had sev- eral expert ‘mountaineers working on | his estate, improving the section cov- ered by woods. These woods are so| rough and so much wilderness that the | | kidnapers must have been well ac- | | quainted with them in order to pass | through as easily as they did. | | The first Lindbergh home in this sec- tion was near Lawrenceville, about 8 | miles from his present place. It, too, | | was hidden back in the woods. Never- | theless, celebrity seekers found it out,| |and practically every tree around the place was stripped of bark and twigs | | taken away by souvenir hunters. | Airplanes cannot now land at the| | Lindbergh home, although an airfield is being built there. Red flags warn away | | planes from the rough ground dotted | | with tree stumps. The nearest ficld s | several miles away. It has no hangars. | Several newspliper planes and a sport | plane belonging to the son of Harry |'Thaw are there now. MRS, P.W.CARROLL DIES AT AGE OF 72 Sudden Heart Attack Fatal| to Widow of Railroad | Attorney. | Mrs. Priscilla Woodrow Carroll, widow of Col. John Haydock Carroll, well known railroad attorney, died in her home, 2029 Connecticut avenue, at noon yesterday. She was stricken with @ heart attack Friday. Mrs. Carroll, who was 72 years old, was the former Priscilla Woodrow, a native of Lynchburg, Ohio. She was married to Col. Carroll in Ohio in 1880, and they passed their hogeymoon in a Cincinnati children’s home, where the young bridegroom had stayed after be- ing stranded in that city at the age of 5. Col. Carroll enjoyed a colorful ca- and with another child lived in an alley dry goods box in Cincinnati, until his death here last November 29. He had been general counsel for the North- ern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and had served as assistant to the president of the B. & O. Col. and Mrs. Carroll came to Wash- ington in 1917. They were hosts to Queen Marfe of Rumania during her visit to America in 1926, and also en- tertained the Crown Prince and Prin- cess of Sweden in 1927 Mrs. Carroll is survived by two chil- dren, John H. Carroll, jr., of Chicago, Western freight traffic manager of the B. & O. Railroad, and Mrs. Philip Lantz of Sewickly, Pa. Funeral services will be held at the Carroll residence tomorrow afternoon The hour has not been decided. In- terment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. R.F. & P. HEAD DIES be paid, a letter was received giving minute instructions. The father was | directed to bring the money to a lonely bridge in an open location in the coun- where, i for the money, The father was warned not to br him or to the would greet hi ‘The father was to ret and proceed until met a second man, ‘who would sa do you do?" This greeting must be reciprocated, it was explained, and then the father must go to the bridge, where he would meet a third man, to whom he should give the money After turning the money over to the third man, the letter said, there would be a short wait and then the boy would appear. urn the tion Father Carries Out Plan. 3 napers pd abruptly after t During the anxious months that followed, the po- Yice in various parts of the country in- Vestigated many false reports concern- g whereabouts of the boy or his kid- napers. A number of men were arrested on suspicion, but were released for lack of evidence against them. Newspaper editors sharply criticized ! the police for their failure to solve the myustery. Many rumors were passed about.” It was even hinted that the disappearance of the boy was & hoax to gain publicity for the father's firm But Charley Rots never came b The kidr sdward Cud: Edward, 15 years ol late at night and at noon the day a letter was found on the of the Cudahy home. It demanded $25000 in goid as ransom. Several hours later another ransom letter ar- rived by mail, demanding that the money be delivered that night and giv- ing full instructions. The wealthy packer, after consulta- tion with the police. ' decided to pay the ransom, He sent to & bank and Eppa Hunton, Jr., IIl for Year of Heart Malady. Special Dispatch to The'Star RICH! ND, Va., March 5—Eppa unton president of the Richmond. dericksburg & Potomac Railway d at his home here today following eral days' ss. Mr. Hunton had n affection of the heart from which | he had suffered for the past year. He was born at Brentsville, Prince william County, and was a graduate of the University of Virginia. Hu Fre Tree Lovers Organized. As guests of Minister for Home Af- fairs Blakely nearly 200 lovers of trees journeyed from all parts of Aus- tralia to Canberra to observe the ave- | nues of trees which have been set out government. The party spent ays in the field and two evenings ng & national tree-lovers' or- ganization. " | obtained $25,000 in gold, which he put |in a sack. After dinner he got in & light buggy, equipped with a red lan- tern, as directed by the kidnapers. He drove five miles west of the city until he came to a white lantern hanging on a stick beside the road. Leaves Money in Road. put the bag of money alongside the and drove back to his home. At 1 o'clock at night the Cudahy boy was dcposited near his home from & cab, which immediately drove off. Cudahy offered $25000 reward for the apprehension of the abductors. He received @ warning that unless the ffer was withdrawn his son would be killed, He refused to withdraw the offer, however From the first police suspected Pat Crowe, well known underworld figure in Omaha. A Natlon-wide search for him ensued. It was several years later be- fore he was brought to justice. He served a term in prison, became con- verted and took up evangelism. Crowe now has offered his ald to Lindbergh in the hunt for the Hdnz; ers of “the most famous baby in world.” | costing about $4,000 a day. reer from the time he was stranded, | This was the designated spot. He | stick, looked around but saw no one, | THOUSANDS SPENT DAILY | IN “COVERING” KIDNAPING' By the Associated Press. FIRL LURED AWAY ELUDES KIDNAPER [Found Wandering in Streets of Columbus, 0., After Be- ing Held‘ in Garage. It is one of those muddy, treacherous | By the Assoclated Press COLUMBUS, Ohlo, March 5—Held captive by a kidnaper who had at- tempted to assault her, little 10-year- old Martha Ford was returned to her anxious parents today. Suffering from the unsuccessful at- tack, exposure to the cold weather and bruises about her small body, the child tonight rested in her home, to which she was removed after receiving treat- ment at a hospital Little Martha was found 24 hours after she disappeared from school. She told of a man luring her away from the school yard with a promise of candy and of being held captive in a garage for many hours. Finally she eluded the kidnaper and wandered aimlessly through the streets until a woman recognized her from descrip- tions published in newspapers and broadcast by radio. The woman took the dazed child into her home and summoned police. Martha was five miles from her home when she was found. The child was missing from shortly affer noon Friday until shortly before noon today. Her mother, Mrs. Harold C. Ford, had carried Martha's lunch to the school, and when she departed Martha was eating. Sthoo! offictals reported the child did not return to her class after the lunch recess, and a city-wide search was in- stituted. Throughout the night radio ruisers and all other police officers combed the city for her. Hospital doctors said Martha was in a highly nervous condition from the | unsuccessful criminal assault, and that | ary War fame, her little hands were almost frozen. Her body bore many bruises, inflicted by the fiend who lured her away. HOPEWELL, N. J, March 5—It's costing thousands daily to supply the world’s appetite for tidings of the hunt for the Lindbergh baby. Metropolitan newspapers and press associations rushed their forces to the scene, until now there is an army of close to 200 men checking every rumor, tracking down every lead. The maintenance of these men is | In addi- | tion, every 24 hours there is an added | cost of approximately $1,300 in telegraph tolls, Forty-three wires, operated by the two major telegraph companies, are carrying from Trenton, Hopewell and Princeton a load of 350,000 words a day on the search. Photograph syndicates and newspa- pers have five planes at an airport near Hopewell to rush out latest pictures. The planes are available for flight to New York constantly. Broadcasting companies estimate that they are spending $7,500 a day to put developments of the story on the air. Four newsreel companies have “sound crews” here to cover the story for mo- tion picture audiences. Based on the figures of a leader of one' of the crews, the combined expense of the four com- panies is $2,000 dally. BOY MISTAKEN FOR STOLEN BABY DESPITE PARENTS' PRECAUTIONS Kept Indoors, He Appears at Window and Passershy Call Police. iMother Has Papers Ready to Prove He’s Really “Jackie” King. Much 3 ment, J they appreciate the compli- Somers King and his par- | ents 1e public to know that John Somers King, while a very promising boy for an only son, is not young Lind- bergh after all In the first place, John Somers King, | otherwise known as “Jackie,” don't like the cod liver oil which his mother, Mrs. John M. King, jr, has been forced to substitute for his fresh air and exer- cise since the broadcast for the kid- ‘napvrl Lindbergh child went abroad. Just because he has blue eyes, blonde curly r and an energetic cast of countenance, Jackie has been restricted to the King's second-floor apartment at 1306 Rhode Island avenue until his parents inced he w ot be mistaken rles Augustus Lind- bergh, Boy Is Getting Restive. Jackie, just 18 months old, and pin- ing to stretch his new-found legs, is getting a little restive, what with the early Spring sunshine inviting him out for his usual daily stroll with his | mother. |, But Mrs. King was wary of & dis- tressing possibility when she saw the strange likeness between her own son | and Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh's on pub- | lication of the kidnaped child’s pic- tures Wednesday morning. The Ki formerly of Portsmouth, Va., moving to the Rhode Island ave- nue address only a week ago after a few months spent in Baltimore, drew the shades of their home Wednesday and determined to shield Jackle from public observation Only yesterday, however, Jackie wandered to the front of the house while his mother was busied about her chores. He drew a shade aside. Mother Gets Proof Ready. Jackie was a little lonely from his long confinement, and, climbing to 8 | stool. pushed the shade over his head while he looked out the window. Chil- | dren were playing in the street outside. and Jackie waved a friendly greeting to_them | Jackie had an audience of | a moment later adults Joined the gro Word went quick about that young ‘Lindbergh’ was wav- ing a distress signal, and some of the adults remained to watch the premises while a woman ran across the street to & drug store to telephone police. Jackie’s mother, realizing what had happened. withdrew her son fiom the window and got out his birth certificate, together with a Portsmouth newspaper picture showing herselt with her only son in arms. | s juveniles, When detectives, accompanied Policewoman, kmocked at her door a few minutes later, Mrs. King displayed Upper: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr. | Lower: Jackie King. ?gfi;‘:xm that Jackie was John Somers “He's my son” she said, “John Somers King, and you can't take him from me, even for a little while!” detectives satisfled themsel: they had run down another false clue. ILEGISLATORS TALK | ATVETERANS FETE Speak at Dinner Honoring Chief of Spanish War Organization. Speeches by Senators and Repre- sentatives featured the banquet given in honor of George R. Lunn, former lieutenant governor of New York, by, the Department of the District of Co- lumbia, United Spanish War Veterans, | in the Mayflower Hotel last night. Lunn, who is commander-in-chief of the veterans, was the principal speaker. Approximately 350 persons attended the banquet. Samuel J. McWilliams, department commander, was toast- master. Many Guests Attend. Among the guests were: Senators Connally, Texas; Lewis, Illinois; Rob- inson, Indiana; Representatives Dieter- ich, Illinois; Gasque, South Carolina; Leavitt, Montana; Manlove, Missou Mouser, Ohio:; Selvig, Minnesot: Thurston, Iowa; Tilson, Connecticut, Whitley, New York; Woodruff, Mich- igan; Gen. Frank T. Hines, administra- tor of veterans' affairs; Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, District Commissioner; O. W. Clark, assistant administrator of veterans' affairs; J. O'C. Roberts, solic- itor, veterans' administration: Edward W. Morgan, director of pensions. Vet- erans’ Administration; John Arthur Shaw, director, Veterans' Service, De- partment of Labor; E. Claude Babcock department commander, D. A. V. Charles B. Jennings, department com- mander, V. F. W.; Joseph R. Frank- lin, Lee T. Turner, department com- mander, D. A. V.; Fred G. Fraser, de- partment commander, American Le- glon; Fred D. Shadell, Edward S. Mat- thias, Rice W. Means and Charles W. Newton. Costello Heads Committee. 1 Jere A Costello was chairman of the | Committee on Arrangements. He was assisted by Willlam N. Barnes, Patrick J Callan, George F. Cook, Thomas F. Donovan, Oscal Feldser, James B. Free- land. Cbrist Hintenach, William I. Jenkins, Edwin J. Robb, Charles A Strobel, James E. Wilson and Robert | E. Wallace. William L. Mattocks, John Lewis Smith, James J. Murphy and James G. Yaden formed the Reception Committee. Entertainment and music by a section of the Army Band rounded out the program. . PNEUMONIA IS FATA TO WALTER H. BEAVERS Prominent Mason and Descendant of Revolutionary Colonel Re- sided Hlere 30 Years. Walter Homer Beavers, 50, of 906 K street, prominent in local Masonic c cles, died in Alexandria Hospital yester- day afternoon. He had contracted pneu- | monia three days ago. A resident of the city for about 30 years, Mr. Beavers was born at the an- | cestral home of his family near Fort | Hunt, Va. He was a son of Willlam Homer Beavers, who was a great-grand- son of Col. John Beavers of Revolution- | Mr. Beavers had been employed by the National Electrical Supply Co. for many years. He was a member of Aimas Temple of the Shrine and belonged to the Virginia State Society. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Katherine Beavers, of Fort Hunt; five sisters, Mrs. H. W. Ferguson and Mrs. Wayne Dissinger of this city, and Mrs. Carl Sullenberger and Misses Maude and Mabel Beavers of Fort Hunt. and\ two brothers, Gray A. Beavers of Balti-| more and Chancey W. Beavers of Fort| Hunt. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. STOLEN CAR AND RUM SEIZED IN CHASES Three Men Arrested After Long Pursuit; 21 Jars of Liquor Confiscated. A stolen automobile was recovered, | 21 half-gallon jars of liquor were seized | and three men arrested as a result o(‘ two chases in the downtown section yesterday. | Ralph B. Evans, 21, colored, of Ar- lington, Va., was charged with transpor- tation and possession of liquor, after a chase which began at Twenty-seventh | and D streets. Policeman G. C. Deyoe in a police car chased Evans through Potomac Park, finally stopping him. The 21 jars of liquor were found in the car Evans was driving, Deyoe re- ported. The_second chase began at Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue when two| colored men in a car disregarded a| traffic signal. Police pursued and cap- ! tured the two men and the automobile at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. They gave their names as Theodore Brannum, 27, driver of the car, of the 1900 block of Thirteenth street, and Richard McCoy. 39, 700 block of S street. ‘They were charged with un- aythorized use of an automobile when police learned it had been stolen from Beatrice Henderson, 5531 Jay street northeast. Brannum also was charged with driving without a permit and reck- less driving. Heartbrol;en Nurse Cables Her Mother To Put Worry Aside; “Cheer Up,” She Advises. Pair Exchange Numer- ous Messages. By the Assoclated Press GLASGOW, Scotland, March 5.— Betty Gow, the nursemaid who discov- ered that the Lindbergh baby had been kidnaped, advised her mother by cable today not to worry. “I'm heartbroken, but cheer up, mother,” the cable message said. Since the Kkidnaping numerous cablegrams have been exchanged by the mother ahd daughter. “Betty is my youngest,” the mother, ~hose name is Mrs. Taylor, said. “I had five. She went to America three years 8g0, but it's only a year since she went with the Lindberghs. “She said she was coming home some time ago, but one morning I got & let- ter from her saying Lindy, as she called him, had asked her to corae to the Eagle's Nest." Mrs. Taylor spoke sorrowfully of the death of a son in America last Sep- tember. “He was accidentally electrocuted,” she said, “and ever since I've been in dread for Betty's sake.” ‘The mother explained she expected her daughter to come home next Au- gust to spend her vacation. s ek e W stationary motors from the Rxports of United States last year exceeded those of 1930 by $232,278. “Glad to Be Free? I'll Say % A5’ el *Kind of Afraid” and Lonesome in Secret Tunnel of Kidnaper, Boy Says, Admitting He Prayed All the Time. By the Associated Press. NILES, Ohio, March 5.—Jimmie Dejute. age 12, had a confession to make today on his return hcme to his parents after being in the hands of kidnapers since Wednesday. The confession did not come out t! he first thing. It was during & moment | of silence after the first rush of crying and kisses and exclamations with his folk: the neighbors, policemen and and said: reporters standing abcut the mother's bed thal Jimmie looked slyly up into his grandmo ier's face “Grandma, I prayed all the time they had me in that house." That was all The rest of Jimmie's story was full of how two strange men grabbed him as he was going car and hid him aw to school, hustled him into a little brown in a lonesome “scarey” old piace, a deserted gambling den. One of the things that Jimmie will tell his chums when he returns to school will be how good a cop looks when a fellow is in the toils of kid- napers. s far as I know, they brought me directly from where T was kidnaped to the place where the cops found me. see those “There said Jimmie. was I glad to cops! was one man who kept guard over me most of the time,” Jimmie continued. “They kept me in the closet, which was awful dark, every time they heard a car stop at the gas station out front. Talked Only of Money. “One of the men drove away lots in the tan Jimmie Dejute. about. getting money off my father. They t fi me it my dad pald them they would take me back home safe. When I asked them what they would do if he didn't pay, they would just laugh. But I knew my dad would pay. “They did not say whether they had asked my dad for any money. They did not want me to talk much.” “Jimmie, did they ever threaten you?” the boy was asked. “No,” he- replied. “Did they ever say they would kill you if your dad didn't pay ransom?” “No, all they talked about was the money.” “Well, were you ever afraid?" “Boy, I'll say.” Had Plenty to Eat. Jimmie said he had plenty to eat. although the food consisted entirely of soft boiled eggs and black bread, and that his captors treated him well. They even let him study his lessons to pass the time away, he said. Attired in & heavy fur-lined leather jacket, corduory breeches and a “Lind- bergh ‘cap,” Jimmie said he did not feel the cold during his long stay in the deserted place. The first thought of the boy, when he was rescued, was his father and mother. A screaming siren of a police car, cleared the way for his ride back Jimmie's father was out in front. With tears streaming down his face, he rushed out to clasp his boy in his arms. Jimmie led the way upstairs to see his mother, who was in bed. Jimmie jumped for the bed and crawled right up beside her and was smothered with hugs and kisses. Everybody stared at Jimmie, hardly able to believe that he was back. Then boy nature became uppermost. “Gee, I'm hungry,” Jimmie declared. “Pete the Barber.” Stole Baby, Woman Says After Dream Troopers and Police Rush to Albany House and Find Tip False. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March 5—Here is a sample of the thousands of Lindbergk baby rumors going around the country. The following message went out to- night over the police printer system to | police stations in five States. Ford, kept parked back of the house. He said he was going to see my dad. That is all they talked KIDNAP RING HEAD TAKEN T0 CHIAGO “Buster” Brown Tells News | Men Lindbergh Case Is “Shame.” | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 5.—Charles “Bus- ter” Brown, suspected “brains” of a Nation-wide. kidnaping ring, which has reaped a harvest in ransom during re- |cent years, was returned from New | York today and lodged in the county | jail without bond. | The diminutive gangster—he stands |only 5 feet, 5 inches—was morose as, | surrounded by detecttves, he stepped | | from the train. Asked bluntly by & re- | porter whether he knew anything about the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby,| | Brown replied hesitantly: “Me do it? Why, I think it's a | shame.” |, Brown is under indictment here for the kidnaping several months ago of Ed- | ward Dobkin. weathy commission mer- | chant. Indicted with him are John | Pingera, William Thomas, Louis “Two | Gun” Alterie, former Chicago gangster | who turned “dude” rancher in Colo- | rado, and Neil Montague, who chan clothes with his brother and wal unmolested from the county jail. | At the time of Brown's arrest a week ago in New York by detectives seeking the escaped Montague, Pat Roche, chief ‘scate's attorney investigator, said the | gangster years ago operated a Peoria, | L, road house. later entering the kid- | naping racket in St. Louis. From there | Brown branched out, | | taking Kansas City and Chicago gangsters into his activities until the ring preyed “E:n wealthy business men and gamblers throughout the Nation most of whom, Roche declared, had never reported their abductions to authorities. Brown and the others, seized in a | rald two months ago on a suburban bungalow, are suspected of having per- petrated several kidnapings here. |COL. LINDBERGH INSISTS ON BEING FINGERPRINTED | Flyer and Wife Go Through For- | mality With Employes on “Information has been received here | the Lindbergh baby is now being taken to Albany. Several persons implicated. Has been moved from last location by Pete the Barber. They have dyed his hair black to prevent detection. They are taking him to 40 Trinity place, Albany. The house has high steep stairs. Pete has worked in Albany. Police there know him.” Within three minutes 40 troopers and police had surrounded the Albany ad- dress. There was no baby in the house and they satisfied themselves the tip was groundless. The Associated Press asked police headquarters the source of the report. It was an anonymous woman who tele- phoned police she had dreamed the information. CITY NEWS IN B TO! Dance, Mosean 9 pm. Rehearsal, stunt party, Women's Na- tional Press Club, Willard Hotel, 3 to 6 p.m. RIEF. DAY. Club, Willard Hotel, FUTURE His Estate. | By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J., March 5.—Col. | Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lind- | bergh were fingerprinted today at the colonel’s own insistence. | Upon learning all employes on his | estate had been fingerprinted as a rou- | tine formality yesterday, Lindbergh | _ “We are no better than anybody else. | I insist that you make our finger-! ‘ prints.” STOLEN BOY FOUND NHODEN OHO DN Two Kidnapers of 12-Year- 0ld James De Jute Surren- der When Trapped. (Continued Prom First Page.) | before the capture was made. He said he | believed they demanded between $4,000 and $5,000 ransom. The sheriff also | said he was convinced others besides the pair under arrest were involved. A strange message—"Go to Scotty's place and you will find that De Jute kid from Niles"—and a lucky circumstance involving Jimmie's schoolbook, combined to bring the boy's release. The message was received by Mahoning County De- tective W. J. Harrison of Youngstown. He refused to divulge the source of the tip t Harrison went to the place with | Sheriff J. C. Risher of Trumbull County, Police Chiefs B. J. Gillen of Warren and | Charles Nicholas of Niles, T. R. Mc- ‘Cunnell. United States Department of | Justice ‘operative, and Deputy Sheriffs | Lawrence O'Rourke and Jack Lundy of | Mahoning County. | School Book Helps. They surrounded the house, kicked in the door and rushed in. but found it ap- parently empty, although there was a fire in the kitchen stove. It looked like another false clue until Harrison saw Jimmie's fifth-grade arithmetic text book, his name on the fiyleaf, lying on the floor. “Jimmie.” he called, and a muffied cry came: “Yes, sir, here I am." Harrison and Risher kicked in a flimsy false wall and found Jimmy, white- faced and trembling, between two men, | one of whom held a revolver. The boy was standing on packages of liquor labeled “bonded whisky." ‘The two men, well dressed but dirty and needing shaves, were quickly hand- cuffed. They offered no resistance as Jimmie, protesflnf he was unafraid, burst into tears of relief. Jimmie was hurried to his parents and the two men to Warren. The liquor was confiscated. Prosecutor George Birrell of Trum- bull County, in which the capture was made, said a special session of the grand | jury would be called Monday to con- sider indictments. There are three pos- sible charges which can be lodged un- der Ohio law, he said. Denies Paying Ransom. If no ransom was demanded, the pen- alty is 1 to 20 years' imprisonment; it the child was under 12 and the ran- scm was demanded, life imprisonment is prescribed; and if the child is over 12 and ransom is demanded, the pen- alty is 10 to 30 years. Jimmie is 12, De Jute denied that any ransom de- mand was made. The house where the kidnapers held Jimmie ever since the kidnaping is lo- cated well back from the road between Youngstown and Hubbard, nearby. Police sald it was the same place at months ago. Officers also were told that the place was a former gambling house now used as a liquor eache. secret_tunnel where Jimmie was found wes used in gambling days, it was said, as a hiding place where a gunman could watch and prevent holdups. SPECIAL PRAYERS TO ASK SAFETY OF STOLEN BABY Churches of Nation to Join in Serv- {ces in Behalf of Kidnaped Child. By the Associated Press. NEW_ YORK, March 5.—A sympa- thetic Nation, concentrating in thou- sands of churches, tomorrow will offer up a prayerful plea for the safe return of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr. Protestant, Catholic, Jew—their thoughts centered on the kidnaped child—will ask divine aid in the search for the most famous baby in the world. Cardinal Hayes sent word to all priests in the New York diocese to offer a prayer for the baby at all Sunday Imases. o Bishop William T. Mam for use m;ul churches of the New York diocese and a special prayer for people in their homes. Heads of other Protestant denominations have acted similarly. 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