FRENCH LINDBERGH CASE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 April 1935, Page 5

FRENCH LINDBERGH CASE

Four=Year=Old Girl Removed by Kidnappers SEARCHERS FEAR MURDER INTENSE PUBLIC FEELING

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapli Copyright). Received I p.m. to-day. PARIS, April 22.

War ’planes, a detachment of soldiers, the police and scores of civilians are co-operating under the leadership og General Landrot in a search for Nicole, the four-year-old daughter of Major Theilleul, who was kidnapped from the courtyard of her home at Chaumont.

The search is continuing after two days, but it is feared that Nicole has been murdered.

Crowds which expected news, waited day and night outside the police station while an ex-convict was subjected to thirty hours’ third degree interrogation. The public’s interest is so aroused that the case is called the French Lindbergh case, although no ransom has ueen demanded "by the kidnappers.