Mew Activities in Hunt for Baby

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6835, 16 April 1932, Page 6

Mew Activities in Hunt for Baby

HANDS-OFF POLICY ABANDONED. San Francisco Press Broadcast. NEW YORK, April 14. In a bold challenge threatening his son’s kidnappers with a relentless manhunt unless they speed new negotiations to return the child, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to-day called tho New York police into action to trace one of his twcnty-dollar ransom bills. Tho police department’s “hands-off” policy, previously calculated to clear tho path for a new ransom deal, was suddenly abandoned at the personal request of tho Lono Eagle through his attorney, Colonel Henry Brcckcnridge. Paradoxically, at tho very time Police Commissioner Muirooney assigned a crack squad to launch an exhaustive check up to tho East River Savings Bank, where the 20-dollar ransom bill was first taken in, Colonel Lindbergh himself and Dr. John Condon, his intermediary, pursued a new contact with the kidnappers.