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...cold wind which, on the night of March 1, banged shutters and rattled windows at the lonely New Jersey home of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, had died down last week. Two weeks of March had run out. But still the curly-headed baby for whom all police and all good citizens of the nation were on anxious lookout, was a lost child. The strain told on the bereaved mother, soon to become a mother again. Physicians attended her, but still she was seen with her mother and sister going about her robbed house, managing, helping, hoping. At Hopewell, where...
Nurse's Friend. After hundreds of people had been fruitlessly questioned by police throughout the U. S. concerning the kidnapping, search narrowed down to persons surrounding the person who last saw Charles Augustus, namely, Nurse Gow. It was discovered that on the day of the abduction she had twice communicated by telephone with one Henry ("Red") Johnson, a deckhand in the summertime aboard the yacht of Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner and good friend of Charles Augustus' late grandfather, Dwight Whitney Morrow. Henry Johnson and Nurse Gow had been friends for three years. He was promptly apprehended in Hartford, Conn...
...completely the Lindberghs, their advisers and police had knuckled under to the kidnappers was evidenced in a still later bulletin by Columbia Broadcasting System which suggested that those in possession of Charles Augustus get in touch with some lawyer, who would be ethically bound not to betray them, or communicate with the Lindberghs over a dial telephone, from which no call can be traced. Only an ominous silence was forthcoming from the abductors...
Federal Law. There are many U. S. children whose parents could afford to pay rich ransom for their return were they kidnapped. But no kidnappee in the land could arouse so much public indignation against the kidnapping racket as Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...invention of a new type of circular saw. In 1926 Indiana Limestone was formed to merge 24 small companies. Behind the deal was Lawrence Harley Whiting of Chicago, president of the investment banking house of Whiting & Co. For president and chief operating executive he chose an oldtime stoneman, Augustus Edwin Dickinson. Stoneman Dickinson, known wide and far as "Big Dick," started in the stone business in 1885 when he was 16. He is 6 ft. 4 in. tall, weighs 225 lb., is usually to be seen in a dark suit, a light felt hat. smoking a cigar...