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Captain John F. Stokes, head of the State detective bureau, was assigned to the case, due to a communication from Colonel Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey police to Colonel Kirk of Massachusetts. Stokes withheld what little information he was believed to possess...
...until last week when the constabulary, perhaps embarrassed by being so closely connected with a gentleman once jailed for presenting a nude chorus girl in a bathtub of wine, insisted that their gaudy jackets had really been designed by none other than their commandant, bristle-haired Col. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf himself...
...Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police disclosed that the Bryant-Harvey case-simple, stupid, but none the less horrid-was one of three extortion attempts made since small Jon's birth last August. One letter was a warning or threat to "watch out." Another asked $50,000 in $20 bills in a suitcase. The illiterate letters leading up to Bryant & Harvey's arrests began coming in December. Excerpt...
...experiences. His publishers and film executives refused to reveal his whereabouts to police. But lately he gave a lecture at Westfield, N. J. in conjunction with the showing of his film. And growing yet bolder, last month he attended a luncheon at Trenton, sat next to Superintendent Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of New Jersey's State police...
When John Hughes Curtis began to tell his tale of mysterious boat trips and constant failures to bring Col. Lindbergh into contact with the men he said were in possession of the child, Col. Schwarzkopf lent a polite, attentive ear. Mr. Curtis described and gave the approximate position of the fishing smack on which he had supposedly interviewed the child's captors. The Coast Guard sent 39 craft and three amphibian planes to find it, with no success. His identification of the criminals by nicknames proved similarly untrustworthy. At last, early on the fifth morning after the child's body...