A FIENDISH END

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 119, 14 May 1932, Page 3

A FIENDISH END

Lindbergh Baby

BODY FOUND NEAR HOME

WITH SKULL FRACTURED By Telegraph—Copyright —Press Assn. NEW YORK, May 12. The body of the infant son of Colonel Charles Lindberg and Mrs. Lindbergh, who was missed from his parents’ home at Hopewell, New Jersey, on the night of March 1, has been found near Mount Rose, a few miles distant from Hopewell. The remains of the baby were discovered in the middle of the afternoon by some passing motorists lying in the scrub. The body was identified by an undershirt in which it was clothed.

A Trenton, New Jersey, message states that the infant died of a compound fracture of the skull. According to the autopsy there was a hole in the skull about the size of a shilling, but no bullet or other missile was found. It was as if some adult person held the Lindbergh baby tightly in his arms with the purpose of causing instant death. The decomposition of the body had progressed so far that it is surmised the child was killed almost immediately after it was kidnapped, and that the body had been undisturbed since it was buried.

Betty Gow, the child’s nursemaid, identified the body as that of the kidnapped child.

Millions of people in the United States received a great emotional shock when they head the news of the child's fate.