Word: lindberghism
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...assortment. Preacher Dobson-Peacock, often in Norfolk headlines, had a church in Mexico City when the late Dwight Whitney Morrow was Ambassador there. John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, had had professional dealings with rum-runners. Admiral Burrage, who commanded the cruiser Memphis when it brought Col. Lindbergh triumphantly home from France five years ago, is noted for taciturnity and exactitude. His sailors, made to keep their socks up, used to cill...
...early as March 9 a 'legger visited Mr. Curtis with information purportedly from the kidnappers. Mr. Curtis was unable to reach Col. Lindbergh himself, so he enlisted the aid of two fellow townsmen who knew the family. The triumvirate repeatedly maintained that they were dealing with a different group from the one which "Jafsie" Condon encountered. Cols. Lindbergh and Breckinridge appeared to put most faith in the "Jafsie" trail. With Mr. Curtis and Mr. Dobson-Peacock operating last week in the same area as Col. Lindbergh, there was inference that the two trails were beginning to converge...
...meet her a few days later in the Tuckahoe, N. Y. railway station. Thither went Mr. Condon on the appointed day, accompanied by Al Reich, onetime pugilist. There the woman told him to go home and await a letter. When the letter came it contained an enclosure for Col. Lindbergh. Mr. Condon read the enclosure over the telephone to Col. Lindbergh who said he recognized the identifying '"token." Under the authorship of Mr. Condon there began a series of more than 30 bizarre notes in the personal columns of newspapers directed to the parties whom he believed held the child...
Through Mr. Condon, negotiations progressed satisfactorily to Col. Lindbergh up to the time that "Jafsie" turned over $50,000 to the supposed kidnapping representative. The man informed him that the baby was safe aboard a boat moored off Gayhead. at the southern tip of Martha's Vineyard. Two trips to that locality convinced Col. Lindbergh that his child was not there. It was then that the serial numbers of the 5,150 bills, in $5, $10 and $20 denominations, which made up the ransom were broadcast through the Treasury Department. In Greenwich, Conn., New York City and, last week...
Press. Sharply criticized for its part in the Lindbergh case has been the U. S. Press. Having played it up as the greatest newsstory of all time, the nation's newspapers laid themselves open to the charge of obstructing the child's return. Prime point in question was the publication of the story that the ransom had been paid and that a lookout had been posted to trace the bills, plainest warning to the criminals of Col. Lindbergh's countermove...