ANONYMOUS THREATS TO LINDBERGH

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22430, 17 June 1938, Page 11

ANONYMOUS THREATS TO LINDBERGH

* EXECUTION OF HAUPTMANN RECALLED FRENCH DETECTIVES GUARD ISLAND HOME LONDON. June 15. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Herald” states that anonymous letters from America, declaring that Bruno Richard Hauptmann was innocent, and threatening Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who the writers hold, was responsible for the execution of Hauptmann, have sent French detectives racing to the island of St. Gildas, where they are patrolling the coast on foot and in motor-boats. Nobody is permitted to land without permisison.

Colonel Lindbergh, in April last, bought the small rocky island of Illiec, off the north -coast of Brittany. Illiec is connected at low tide, with the island of St. Gildas, on which lives the surgeon, Dr. Alexis Carrel, with whom Colonel Lindbergh is co-operat-ing in the invention of an artificial heart.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the 19-months-old son of the famous airman, was kidnapped from the Lindberghs home near Hopewell, New Jersey, in the Sourland Mountain region, northwest of Princeton, on March 1, 1932. The body, reduced almost to a skeleton, was found on May 12, in a thicket, less than five miles from the babe’s home. Hauptmann, a paroled German convict, who had entered the United States unlawfully at New York in 1923.' was arrested on September 19, 1934. Found guilty of kidnapping and murdering the child, Hauptmann was electrocuted on April 3, 1936.