Word: gow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facts. It was announced that the original ransom demand (not yet made public) was found some hours after the child's disappearance was discovered, and not, as originally reported, when Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh first rushed with Nurse Betty Gow into the nursery. And both parents were not downstairs when Nurse Gow found the crib empty. Mrs. Lindbergh was on the second floor taking a bath. Learning that Mrs. Lindbergh did not have the baby, Nurse Gow went downstairs to see if the child was with his father (who calls...
Item. The remarkably narrow time limit within which the kidnapping probably took place: 8:30 when Nurse Gow says she last saw the child and 9:15 when Col. Lindbergh sat down under the nursery window...
...clock Nurse Gow went to the nursery. The baby was not in his crib. She hurried downstairs and notified the parents. All three ran back upstairs. The first thing they did was to inspect the floor to see if the child had crawled somewhere. He had not. One more look around the room disclosed muddy footprints, an open windowscreen and a note on the sill below. Exact contents of the note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have...
...last person known to have seen 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was his nurse, a dark-haired, light footed little Scotch girl of 26 named Betty Gow. Nurse Gow immigrated to the U. S in 1928, has been in the Lindberghs' employ over a year. At approximately 8:30 o'clock one evening last week she went to his nursery. It is on the second floor southeast corner, of the home which Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh completed last autum three miles north of Hopewell, ten miles north of Princeton, on a wild, lonely stretch of high ground called Sourland...
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...