TWO MORE ARRESTS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 368, 9 March 1932, Page 1

TWO MORE ARRESTS.

Travellers Held while Story is Investigated. LINDBERGH BABY MYSTERY. United Press Assn.—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 9, 11.20 a.m.) BOSTON, March 8. 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, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, being taken to police headquarters for questioning. Black quoted Edwards as saying that he would transmit information to Lindbergh if he had sufficient funds. Black agreed to finance a telephone call, and Black said 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 Ilaverill police have been asked to check the story with Boulanger. A message states that, the police revealed that they are still investigating the possibility of some member of the Lindbergh household being involved in the kidnapping of the baby. A False Clue. At Bristol, Pennsylvania, two men and a woman w’ere arrested to-night in a trap set by State police for the writers of a note demanding 50,000 dollars ransom for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby, which the Lindberghs received at Hopewell on Saturday. Later they were released. The letter, the contents of which were disclosed to-night, instructed the Lindberghs to meet the writers beneath the railroad bridge at Croydon, at 8 p.m., with no one else. Unless they kept the appointment and brought the money the baby would be killed. A man and a woman resembling the Lindberghs were placed in an automobile at the designated spot, and policemen in plain clothes hid nearby. When a car drove up the police leapt from their hiding-places and collared the three occupants, who were taken to Bristol for questioning.