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PfGE FOUH JTEDFORD lfATL TTCIBUOT:. IIEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, 5IAY 33, 1932. Details of Lindbergh Baby's Discovery Given By New Jersey Police (Continued tram Fag' One.) established conuwt with man to whom, later, $90,000 of Colonel Una bergVa money m paid on promise never iultllled that the child would be returned "alive and well The other waa John H. Curtli, one of three Norfolk, Va., "Intermedia rlea," whoee reoent Information has sent him Into the coaatal watera near Long Ialand where, It waa hinted, contact waa to be made with the kid napers. "Theee men are being questioned now, and will be questioned later In the day by the prosecutor," aald Col. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the atete police. They are not, however, under arrest. Found by l'rnrknian Discovery of the child's skeleton waa made by fWUllam Allen, negro truckman. In his truck, driving the Hopewell-Mount Rose highway, be had halted, and left It to enter the woods. Brush and undergrowth blocked his path. He stooped and pushed It aside. Beneath the brush, underneath a layer of rotting leaves, lay the body of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., only child of Anne, daughter of the late Senator Dwlght W. Morrow, and Charles Lindbergh. Clinging to tie decomposed body waa weather-worn flannel that had kept the baby warm that night of March 1 when his nurse tucked him Into his crib. These shreds of baby clothing were Identification enough; these, and the matted, curly hair. Lid Off on Hunt Today, a horror-kindled Inoentlve drove forces of the law to unrestrain ed hunt for the murderer. The leases of secrecy and of fear for the baby'a safety no longer held. It was no longer necessary to exercise extreme care. Murder had been done. A compound fracture of the skull caused death. The murder evidently waa done very soon after the kid naping, probably within an hour. A mad man, apparently, muscled either by an Intense hatred or an overpow ering fear, atruck the child dead, Physicians described It as a "ter rific" blow. No weapon has been found. There was added possibility the baby had been hurled violently from a motor car. police Identify Body State police of New Jersey, who nave been In direct chargte of the search for the baby slnoe the night. 78 days ago, when the voice of Col. Lindbergh over a telephone ssld: "My baby has been kidnaped," made -be Identification of the body. A phy sician added confirmation. Later Miss Betty Oow, the baby's nurse, said he was "quite certain" the body was that of the Lindbergh child. . The parenta themselves remained completely in the background mhlle their greatest tragedy was helng writ ten In black headlines around the world. Mrs. Lindbergh and her mother, Mrs. Dwlght Morrow, were at the Hopewell estate. Colonel LIuuMrgh was absent, engaged In the baby hunt with Curtis, the Norfolk "Interme diary.' He returned early thla morn ing. ' Mother Remains Calm Close friends said Mrs. Lindbergh who Is preparing for another baby In the late summer, had accepted the news with- her "usual equanam Jy." One of the strange weird Jests of the horror that for It daya had turned the Bonrland estate of the Lindberghs Into a tragic heartbreak house was the discovery of the body virtually at Its doorstep. Running through the rush -grown land, and passing within 76 feet of the baby'a burial place, Is a telephone wire. It was strung hurriedly, to carry to the world news of the bsby hunt and 1U elicited messages of hope, of new clues, of Importent discoveries passed hardly more than whisper distance from the object of the hunt. The spot where the body was found Is thick-grown scrub. The brush now Is heavy-leaved. Infilled with a heavy grass. The dead leaves of a happier autumn form a patch carpet over the ground. Shortly after S o'clock yesterday afternoon a truck hauling tlmbera to be used In a moving Job stopped beside the road. Allen left the truck and went Into ths brush. Rorrlfled at what he saw Allen ran back to the road and cnlled Orvllle Wilson. When Wilson viewed the body he aald: "What are you going to dor" Allen aald: "I am going to notify the state police." Body Hastily Conrealel. The police found the ahallow grave on a alight alope. The body had been concealed with leaves, dirt and brush. Ths child's form lay face down, and the depression In which It rested was so slight as to Indicate that elforts to conceal It had been very hurried. County Physician Charles Mitchell examined the body. "The baby was struck a fearful blow on ths head." he said, "The skull was fractured clear across the top. There Is hole over the right ear. The lower left leg Is nilMlng." State police took charge of the body and the Lindberghs were noti fied. The press snnounoement gave only briefest details. No word was forthcoming during ths night from the parents. Intermediaries Hllent, Efforts to get ti.e "intermediaries" to comment were without result. There were a number of them, some endorsed by Co Lindbergh and others acting upon their own Initia tive. The most active were Dr. Condon of New York and Curtis, the Norfolk shipbuilder. Others were Morris Rosner mystery man with connections dipping Into the underworld Salvy Spltile and Irv ing Bltz also presumed to have the confidence of gang members and Oaston B. Means, acting as the agent of Mrs. Edward B. McLean. Private detectives and newspapers also wore active In separate searches. All these "Intermediaries" have moved like secret shadows through the weeks of Investigation. They ex- plained that any other course would endanger the life of the child. It waa thla secrecy that made possible the $50,000 "Jafsle" hoax by which that sum was paid to a man near Yonken. N. Y., cemetery on the man's promise to roturn the child. Go-Betwrens Active. The Norfolk Intermediaries Cur tis and two asaocls tee were even more active than "Jafsle." employ ing airplanes, yachts and fast mo torcars In negotiations that ran up and down the Atlantic seaboard and out to sea. Col. Lindbergh him self participated in these negotia tions as recently as yesterday, it was learned. Authorities understood that at the moment the body waa discovered, the aviator waa aeeklng to contact the kidnapers somewhere off Long Island. Mrs. McLean, the Washington wo man who. acting Independently, put up $100,000 In an effort to return the child to his parents, and wno now charges Oaston B. Means, her agent, appropriated the money to his own use, declined to be quoted. Her attorney aald she waa greatly shooked and grieved. Ltndy to Aid llnnt. Neither parent had viewed the body up to an early hour today, so far as could be learned; however, an automobile having Col, Lindbergh as one of Its passengers, arrived at the Hopewell estate at S a. m. The flier was ready to lend his active aupport to the hunt for the mur derer of his child. Ths announcement that Dr. Con don ("Jafsle") and Curtis had been summoned to police headquarters at Trenton and that they were to be turned over to "prosecuting au thorltles," was ths first definite in dlcstlon that polios finally ware ready to throw aside their "hsnds off" policy concerning private nego tiations and demand from the inter medlarlea a full account of their actions and of the Information upon which they have been acting. ' Parenta safeguarded. Authorities were still exercising extraordinary precautlona to aafe guard ths feelings of the parents. Questions seeking to determine how the news had affected Mr. and Mrs Lindbergh and what plana they may have made toward bringing the at-ductor-klller to Justice were not anawered. No announcement was msde of burial plans. The report of the autopsy, per formed by Dr. Mitchell, county physician, was gruesome In de tail. In addition to the lower left leg, other parts of the body were missing, due presumably to decomposition, hastened by ex posure. The left hand and right rorearm were gone, as were some abdominal organs. The conclu sion reached by the physician, however, was without equivoca tion. He said: "lllagnoslt of the cause of death Is a frac tured sknll, due to external vio lence." World Wide Sympathy, Expressions of sympathy cams from every corner of the world; from Paris, to which Lindbergh, tben the Lone Eugle," flew from New York In a single, uninterrupted right: from Washington where hla foat later Map Showing Where Kidnapers Left Body ir 1 1 "" 1 r 111 w ..... V HOME ."T TO-. . 4 TO HEW YOPA laWui.W.M rtU . -A.V.jfLlZZ.. sfJa. Associated Press tele photo map ultonlng the lomllon of Col. and Mrs. CIuir.es A. Lindbergh!' home and where the body of their klrtnuped baby waa found. woe given the official acclaim of the American people and from Japan and China, to which, with hla wife aa navigator and radio operator, he flew on a vacation tour last year. A dramatic coincidence waa noted In the fact that In the hour when the world waa hearing news, of the baby'a death. Lou Relchera, New Jersey airman, waa lifting the noae of hla airplane Into the night akles for a two-stop flight to Paris In an endeavor to out in half the time made by Colonel Lindbergh. Town of 200 Gets Fostofflce KINOSTREE, 8. C.-(AP) Kings- tree thla year la oelebratlng Its bi centennial, and the occasion la to be featured by dedication of ft new postoffloe. CHULA VTA. Cal. (AP) Prom the farm lands surrounding thla city, which la within ft dozen miles of the Mexican border and a stone's throw of the Pacific, 325 oa'noada of winter celery were sold to the nation for 3.700,000. The plantings totaled 0,600 acres, and the harvest demanded from 93.60 to 93.36 for a crate containing five dozen stalks delivered to the railroad this year aa against average prices of 3.35 to 2. 60 last year. t- Colonel Alfred E. Clark, who Is seeking the Republican nomination for United States senator, has to his credit many achievements which should draw a large number of the j ex-servicemen's vote one of theee Is the fact that Colonel Clark fought to abolish the death sentence for purely military offenses during the World war, and aa a result of this fight there were no executions for purely military offenses during the World war. (Pd. adv. Clark for Senator committee, 820 Yeon Bldg., Portland, ore.) - ' 4 Broken windows glazed by Trow bridge Cabinet Works. (7! . kx r a i v a mm a avr l w 7 mw mm m xs. xxxx I Paltry - Lon't try to use "one-wheat" flour for ll-purpoae linking. Flour marie from only one tyne of wheat Horant always work rliht for all baked fool. 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