Show The Lindbergh Kidnapping The mystery of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby by finding it murdered in the New Jersey woods with a part of it diabolical crimInality criminality criminality crim crim- has cased eased the tension asto as asto asto to the uncertain fate of the child and intensified the man-hunt man for forthe forthe the murderers Before the murdered murdered murdered mur mur- i dered baby was found there was wasa a man named John Hughes Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- Us a bankrupt ship builder of of- Norfolk Virginia Virg nia who pretended he was in touch with the kidnappers kidnappers kidnap kidnap- pers pel's and was placed at athis athis athis his disposal whenever he could produce the baby alive He fooled fooled fooled fool fool- ed a distinguished preacher Dean H. H Peacock Dobson-Peacock and ex cx Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Guy Burrage in his story that he was in touch louch with the kid Md- kidnappers and the secret service department ot of the government was straining every nerve ner to help out this search and when the child was found Colonel Lindbergh was out at sea in the night peering through the darkness to sight a phantom ship pictured by this man Curtis to be the ship that had the baby Well Vell now Curtis confesses that it was all a lie He and a a. hoax hoa and andall andall andall all made up out of his own imag imag- He was another rascal that was trying to make money out of a lie and at the expense of the public and the inconvenience of Colonel Lindbergh with the hope that he might get another 50 thousand dollars from the al already already already al- al ready distracted This man Curtis was trying to commercialize commercialize commercialize com com- and extort money out of the calamity of the He was akin to the fiendish ghouls that rob the dead on battlefields battlefields battlefields bat bat- or pilfer steal and rob the unfortunate at a great city I fire or other calamity and that I are shot at sight when detected and now he pleads guilty and for mercy He had no mercy for his intended victims and certainly all he is entitled to is a long term in inthe inthe I Ithe the penitentiary and let us hope he gets it I H u |