Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Loretta Turnbull, 19, outboard motor boat racer of Los Angeles; and Richard Blythe, amateur flyer, personal representative of Colonel Lindbergh at the time of his European flight...
Deported. Henry ("Red") Johnson, implicated by Nurse Betty Gow in the Lindbergh kidnapping case; to Norway. After he had gone, immigration men revealed the deportation warrant was rescinded, giving him an opportunity to re-enter the country legally. This was apparently done because of the belief that Johnson was innocently implicated in the case...
...four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...
Sentenced. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., to one year imprisonment and $1,000 fine; for obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington...
Convicted. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., boat builder; of obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington, N. J. Defendant Curtis repudiated his original confession that he had hoaxed Col. Lindbergh and the police by leading a long, fruitless search off the New Jersey coast for a Gloucester fisherman on which he said the baby was held. The prosecution was able to convince the jury that Curtis, therefore, must be shielding the actual kidnappers. Maximum penalty: three years in prison, $1,000 fine or both. The defendant appealed...