KIDNAPPING MYSTERY

Southland Times, Issue 21649, 10 March 1932, Page 7

KIDNAPPING MYSTERY

POLICE FOLLOW UP CLUES. FORTUNE-TELLER’S BELIEF. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Boston, March 8. A message from Hopewell (New Jersey) states that the police have revealed that they are still investigating the possibility of some member of the Lindbergh household being involved in the kidnapping of the baby. The statements of Earle Edwards, aged 40, of Derrynh, to a fellow train passenger that his father-in-law who, he said, was an amateur fortune-teller, had divulged important clues in the Lindbergh case, caused a flurry of excitement to-day, resulting in Edwards and his newly made friend, Samuel Black, aged 51 years, of Lawrence (Massachusetts) being taken to police headquarters for questioning. Black quoted Edwards as saying that he should transmit the information to Colonel Lindbergh if he had sufficient funds. Black agreed to finance a telephone call, and Black said that Edwards was in. a booth putting the call through when the arrests were made. Edwards told the police that his father-in-law, Charles Boulanger, told him that the baby was being held by an aged couple and the motive of the crime was revenge and not ransom. The Haverhill police have been asked to check the story with Boulanger. FREER HAND SOUGHT LINDBERGHS AND POLICE. (Rec. 7.15 p.m.) New York, March 8. On the eighth day after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby no more definite progress towards the recovery of the child seems to have been made than on the first. There is reported to have been an altercation between Colonel Lindbergh and the police concerning surveillance by the latter over telephone messages received at the Lindbergh home. The tendency seems to be for the Lindberghs to seek a freer hand for their own efforts for the recovery of their son.