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...appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office Departments; a bill turning 45,000,000 bu. of wheat, 500,000 bales of cotton from the Farm Board to the Red Cross for needy relief; a bill providing a 20-year penalty for sending kidnapping or ransom letters through the mails...
...that no amount of secrecy on the part of Press or Police could return the child alive to its parents, the lid of caution abruptly blew off the case. For the first time pictures of the nursery were published. And the text of the original ransom note, which newspapers had withheld since the case entered its second day lest negotiations for the child's return be jeopardized, was unofficially made public...
...Schwarzkopf began examining he negotiators. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon told how the supposed kidnappers had sent him as an earnest to secure ransom, a sleeping garment which the Lindberghs identified as the one worn by their child the night of his abduction. The fact that the child's body was found without the sleeping garment led police to believe that the man to whom "Jafsie" Condon gave $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money, in a Bronx cemetery on April 2, represented the actual kidnappers and killers. Mr. Condon described this man, said he "could pick...
...given the money to "chiselers" who were unable to return the child; 2) if he had paid the actual kidnappers, they might be holding out for more money; 3) his child was dead. After it got out that he had sought Federal aid in tracing the ransom money, Col. Lindbergh reiterated his promise not to "try to injure" the criminals if only they would return the child. A spokesman for him admitted that "he feared that his action in calling upon Federal officials . . . might be interpreted by the kidnappers as an effort to double-cross them...
...Lampoon, humorous college magazine, when reached last night, expressed an ardent desire to communicate with those who stole Arthur the Seagull and the sacred alligator. "We wish that someone would give us the bird, and will ask no questions" sums up the attitude of the funsters. In addition a ransom of $50 will be paid for the return of the goods, according to one of the editors of the publication. Theories have been advanced by those who urge a thorough search of the east wing of Peabody Museum, where it was felt that the alligator might turn up. In respect...