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...story as it reached me is that Durham & Co. imported this animal at a great cost from the Pampas, after search for a bull on whose side was a "perfect map of the United States...
Four days later, all the other boats in the race had been accounted for but no one had seen the Curlew. A Bermuda tug, the Sandboy, made a 70 mile search around Bermuda, found nothing. The U. S. Consul at Bermuda asked the U. S. Coast Guard to start a search. Seven Coast Guard cutters scoured the Atlantic from Montauk to Bermuda. Irving Blum, brother of Nat Blum, and David Rosenstein grew worried. They persuaded New York's Congressman Fiorello La Guardia to have naval tugboats join the hunt. When the tugboats, 100 Coast Guard cutters, the British naval...
Sentenced. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., to one year imprisonment and $1,000 fine; for obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington...
...Bertram, 27, and Mechanic Adolph Klaussmann took off from Koepang. Timor Island, for Darwin, Australia, 500 mi. south. In their Junkers seaplane Atlantis they had left Germany three months prior, on a tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously. At last, one day last week...
Convicted. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., boat builder; of obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington, N. J. Defendant Curtis repudiated his original confession that he had hoaxed Col. Lindbergh and the police by leading a long, fruitless search off the New Jersey coast for a Gloucester fisherman on which he said the baby was held. The prosecution was able to convince the jury that Curtis, therefore, must be shielding the actual kidnappers. Maximum penalty: three years in prison, $1,000 fine or both. The defendant appealed...