CLAIMS TO BE SON OF LINDBERGH
(10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN. Aug. 3. An 18-year-old Danish farmhand, Erik Nielsen, working in Hoejby, a village 60 miles north-west of Copenhagen, claims that he is Colonel Lindbergh’s son who was kidnapped on March 1, 1932, says the British United Press correspondent. The matron of the orphans’ home where Erik Nielsen was brought up, commenting on Nielsen’s claim that he is Colonel Lindbergh’s son, said the home received Nielsen when he was three years old. His birth certificate showed that he u'as born in the State Hospital, Copenhagen. There was no reason to believe that he was born anywhere else.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22707, 4 August 1948, Page 7
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105CLAIMS TO BE SON OF LINDBERGH Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22707, 4 August 1948, Page 7
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