LINDBERGH CASE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 5

LINDBERGH CASE

IS BABY BEAD ?

SENSATfONAL EVIDENCE GIVEN

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NEW YORK, May 12

Js Ch Tries Augustus Lindbergh, the infant s on of Colonel and Mrs Lhulbergh, dead? Sensational evidence was given at the trial to-day of Gaston Means on the charge of attempting to defraud. Mrs Evelyn Walsh McLean, of thirty-five thousand dollars, for rg-e <"s a ransom in the Lindbergh abduction case. This leads to the belief that he is alive and in the hands of those who kidnapped him over a year ago.

i|nother sensational twist to the case was given when, afte r Means had stated that men named Max Rassen and Max Greenberg had been responsible for the kidnapping, these men weiie found murdered >at Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Means testified that the infant s body found in New Jersey, and identified by Lindbergh, a year ago as bis child, was a “plant,’’ according to information, Means .said, bad been gtv(•n to, him by one, Wellington Henderson, whom he had Identified previously, as one of the kidnappers. Means said that .Henderson visited him when Meana was out on bail, following his arrest in the McLean case, and said he and the real Lindbergh baby were at’ Jaurez. This w a s on May 17 last year.

Means said that Henderson to d him the baby was still alive at that date, aslo that the autopsy performed on the body of the baby found in New Mersey! had disclosed d'ffei’ent measurements from those of the real Lindbergh child. To-day a Federal official after investigating Easton B. Means’ story re the Lindbergh' baby, pronounced the tale “the figment of a weird imagination that makes Baron Munchausen ■look like a piker.”