Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile from Hopewell, 20 miles from Highland Park, scene of the nation's most fabulous criminal case, not one reliable word came of the whereabouts of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., snatched from his crib the windy night of March...
...that the original ransom demand (not yet made public) was found some hours after the child's disappearance was discovered, and not, as originally reported, when Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh first rushed with Nurse Betty Gow into the nursery. And both parents were not downstairs when Nurse Gow found the crib empty. Mrs. Lindbergh was on the second floor taking a bath. Learning that Mrs. Lindbergh did not have the baby, Nurse Gow went downstairs to see if the child was with his father (who calls...
...clock Nurse Gow went to the nursery. The baby was not in his crib. She hurried downstairs and notified the parents. All three ran back upstairs. The first thing they did was to inspect the floor to see if the child had crawled somewhere. He had not. One more look around the room disclosed muddy footprints, an open windowscreen and a note on the sill below. Exact contents of the note have never been revealed, but if, like most notes of the same kind, it warned against police intervention, Col. Lindbergh brusquely disregarded the warning. He could have...
...second floor southeast corner, of the home which Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh completed last autum three miles north of Hopewell, ten miles north of Princeton, on a wild, lonely stretch of high ground called Sourland Mt. Nurse Gow tucked Charles Augustus who had been ailing with a cold, into hi crib and went down to the servants' quarters to have a chat with the Lindbergh's butler, Oliver Wheatley and his wife...
...formerly estimated the divorce trade to be worth $4,000,000 a year; the gambling houses now are supposed to pay State and county $50 a month for each game, and nobody knows how much this will come to, if collected. Amorous males may go to the fenced-in "Crib" guarded by three policemen, where girls are to be found at all hours. From 300 young women the "Crib" owners collect (according to Investigator Henry F. Pringle of Outlook and Independent) $2.50 a day, pay Reno only a property...