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...Marine Barracks, Quantico. Va. Resigning in 1920, he became European representative for Radio Corp. of America with headquarters at Paris. His wife was well-to-do Eleanor Morrow of San Francisco, daughter of a Federal Judge (no kin of the Englewood, N. J. Morrows and their Anne Morrow Lindbergh...
...village of Santa Eulalia, Guatemala, in the heart of a remote mountain section so completely cut off from the world that no piece of news either of the outside world or even of the Republic of Guatemala filtered in to us, save only the one appalling story of the Lindbergh tragedy. The life was a lonely and fatiguing one, and I felt as completely severed from the world I knew as though I had been translated like Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee completely out of my own century into some remote period of a forgotten past. For these...
Chief Robert C. Johnson and Officer Howard Ferguson of the Roanoke police stood secret watch near the stump, ceaselessly for six days & nights. They saw nothing. When they withdrew and Chief Johnson communicated with the extortionists, via the stump, as "John J. Jones," agent for Col. Lindbergh, answers came. By bargaining the tribute was cut from $50,000 to $25,000, to $17,000. A check for the latter amount was finally left in the stump and next day Joe Bryant presented it for payment at the Roanoke bank designated. His story when arrested was that he had "just happened...
Police suspected no "higher-ups." Federal officers at once took charge and custody under the statute passed last July, carrying penalties for mailing kidnap threats and ransom demands of $5,000 fine or 20 years in prison or both. The other new sword to avenge Baby Lindbergh is the 1932 Federal law against actual interstate kidnapping, providing "such term of years [in prison] as the court, in its discretion shall determine...
Meanwhile last week Charles Boettcher II, 31, wealthy aviation acquaintance of Col. Lindbergh's, was kidnapped one midnight as he stepped from his automobile at his Denver home. His wife promptly offered to pay the $60,000 ransom for his release...