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...Flushing, L. I. William Henry Joseph Tubbs, 32, jobless & penniless, was ordered from his wife's parents' home when a bad check charge was about to overtake him. Before he disappeared, he killed his six-year-old son asleep in a crib...
Careful examination indicated that the baby had been clubbed to death shortly after being snatched from his crib on the night of March 1. The badly decomposed remains, clad only in a flannel stomach band and an undershirt, lay face down in a shallow depression, possibly a hastily scratched grave. On one side was a tall oak On another was a stump. Through the underbrush 75 ft. back ran the special telephone line strung during the world-wide search. The head showed two fractures a round hole through the right temple. One leg and both hands were missing...
Rich Mrs. McLean, a mining tycoon's daughter much in the Washington lime light, interested herself in the Lindbergh kidnapping as early as March 4. In 1919 she, too, had lost her firstborn; 9-year-old Vinson, the "Hundred-Million-Dollar Baby" who slept in a crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace...
...would evoke. An earthquake must have been under way at the time of Flagg's conception . . . and when he first saw daylight a hurricane, which happened to be in progress at the moment, swept Flagg through a couple of barn doors. He was, however, blown back into his crib with the mark of fair-weather defeat writ all over his pan and not a tear could wash out a feature of it. Result-cut in TIME. To gaze at this conceited cookie-cutter countenance takes the courage and strength of a Daniel to bear up under the shock. Just...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was alive, he became 21 months old last week, the fourth week since he was snatched from his crib on Sourland Mountain near Hopewell, N. J. The State of New Jersey had already spent $50,000 searching for him. It had cost Columbia Broadcasting System alone $40,000 to keep the public informed of developments, not to mention newspapers' outlay. Prime development last week was an announcement by three substantial citizens of Norfolk, Va. that they were in communication with the kidnappers...