SEARCH FOR LOST BABY

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 7

SEARCH FOR LOST BABY

POLICE MAKE NO PROGRESS

FORTUNE TELLER’S BELIEF

THE .CRIME ONE OF REVENGE

ARREST WHILE ’PHONING

By Telegraph—Tress Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 10.30 p.m. New York, March 8. The eighth day after the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby has passed and no more definite progress towards the recovery of the child seems to have been made than on the first dayz An altercation, between Colonel Lindbergh and the police concerning the surveillance by the police over telephone messages received at the Lindbergh home is repented. The tendency seems to be for the Lindberghs to seek a freer hand for their own efforts for the recovery of their son.

Statements of Earle Edwards, aged 40, of Derrynh, to a fellow train passenger, that hie father-in-law, who he said was an amateur fortune-teller, had divulged important clues caused a flurry of excitement to-day, resulting in Edwards and a newly-made friend, Samuel Black, aged 51, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, being taken to police headquarters for questioning, says a Boston message.

Black quoted Edwards as saying that ho should transmit information to 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, not ransom. The Haverhill police have been asked to check the story with Boulanger. A Hopewell (New Jersey) message 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.