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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 41

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A ft a- in aiiMiinea.ioruiiea 11111101 Will Barbed Pf7rg Fences, Chained Driveways, Watchdogs A 1 and a Complex Network of Private 'Phones, i 1 7 5 A. 1 1 Employed in the High Resolve to Shield This Famous Infant by the Most Up-to-Date It, 1 mi iV-Nr- i Vtji 5 it; y-Vii jy'J's 'it Means Known to if Wi- jh': Wealth and Science the kidnapers 1 VCTX) inside information about the workings of the Morrow and Lindbergh households, struck up some chance acquaintances who THE NURSE -1 subsequently drove into the estate to call for her. Today however a stranger can't get within hailing distance of the Morrow servants. At night if the servants go downtown to the movies or call on friends they either travel by taxi or are driven to their destination and called for later by one of the Morrow chauffeurs. Under no circumstances will they pick up chance ac KOSS Bridge, ed from Betty Cow, the Pretty Scottish Girl, Wheeling the First Lindbergh Baby in His Perambulator.

She Also Cares for Jon Lindbergh Today But in Guarded Grounds. quaintances. No longer will any of them discuss household activities even with friends of. long standing. A few days ago I attempted to engage in conversation with a ruddy-faced gardener who was puttering away at the edge of the estate.

His Guarded nspicuous Jsed, Since "hey Might lave Attracted 'ublic Atten a- -y, Ah 1 AC' "HeJlo," I ventured. The man looked up, surveyed me and turned back to his work. "It's a nice day," I pursued. ion. Plain lothesmen ,0 ihis time he did not look ud.

Instead. 1 iO7' ML A he picked up his trowel and walked off in the direction of the house. f' ere Stationed long the Entire oute. (At Right) opy of the ergh Kidnaping olice Circular. -'Jon Morrow Lindbergh has not been the most closely-guarded baby in the world only since the day he was born.

The trying title in question Avas his for several weeks before he first squinted his blue eyes at the world that had dealt so cruelly with his brother. While the search for New York City police. The public had learned by way of the front pages that Mrs. Lindbergh had retired to the se SANCTUARY A Near View of the Morrow Mansion Englewood, N. J.

Cameramen Are No Longer Allowed So Close to the Building- ig the kidnaping probe that they had discussed le baby in the presence, of outsiders. Others, fter working hours, had sometimes violated le laws of etinuette laid down bv Rmilv Post. the abductors and slayers of Charles Augustus, 1 1 1 A A 1 Jr was sun at ns irenziea zenitn, the design lor iolet Sharpe, the maid who later committed sui- protection of the then unborn baby was formulated by the renowned aviator, his closest advisers and the New Jersey State Constabulary and de, and the person who the police believe may ave intentionally or unintentionally revealed to so mi UesperateA meriranuinsinharis clusion of the ancestral home to await the coming event. News-hawks had the estate under constant surveillance lest they be scooped when word of the baby's arrival was announced. Lindbergh and the police feared the attention that was being riveted on the place, knowing only too well that such a focal point has a peculiar fascination for the twisted minds of cranks and maniacs.

So in the dead of a moonless night in late August, a black sedan, curtains drawn, streaked from the grounds and headed in the general direction of New York. Pursuit by newspapermen became impossible, for Lindy was at the wheel. He is such a fast and daring driver that even members of the Englewood Police Department's motorcycle squad shudder when they think 'of the days when they "escorted" the Lone Eagle on his trips between Englewood and the Sourland Mountains. As a rule, Lindbergh left the cops far behind as his car zoomed over the smooth, straight Jersey highways at often a hundred miles an hour and 'a STAY AWAY I Mr. Hynd, Standing Just Inside of the Boundary of the Morrow Estate, Points to the Mansion, Barely Visible at So Pronounced a Distance.

The Baby's Nursery is On the Second Floor of the South Wing. Bodyguards with Powerful Binoculars Are Stationed in the House and Behind the Trees. Had the Writer Advanced a Step Further, Would Have Been Halted and Interrogated. --cay 'r1 7 nrtg iting Caricature by the Distinguished French Artist, V'ermieux, Giving His Conception of How American hirls, Stranded in Paris, Attach Themselves to Rich "Sugar Daddies" to Get Free Meals and Drinks. alienable right to privacy, gave out a simple announcement of the birth at Englewood, carefully avoiding mention of the fact that the child had been born in New York.

The sob sisters had a field day spilling verbal tears over the theory that the new baby had been born in. the same room in which the other boy had romped before he was summoned to journey's end. A small army of detectives held forth at the Morrow town apartment night and day. It was there that Jon passed the first two weeks of his life. Then one night he and his mother were whisked to Englewood by Lindbergh.

The child has remained there ever since. The journey back to Englewood was another dramatic episode in Lindbergh's dramatic Four police automobiles rolling arsenals all-flanked the car bearing the Lindberghs and the baby through the dark night as it turned into Riverside Drive, swept along the Hudson to the great George Washington Bridge, then across ta the Palisades the New Jersey side and on to Englewood. The trip had been set for a certain hour, and was carefully timed in advance. All along the route an advance car apprised detectives who loitered at pre-designated points, watches in hands, ready to sound an alarm if the caravan was unduly late. er imported beauties, and did everything pos-le to make them uncomfortable.

Xor was this all. There had evidentlv been mis- more. I was among those who had the job of keeping him in sight. "Go take a ride for yourselves," was Lindbergh's good-natured comment to the bluecoats as they tuned up their motorcycles, prepared to clear a path for the man who has always cleared a path for himself. One of the seven costly cars now standing in the Morrow garage is practically worthless.

Its body has been jolted almost to pieces, and its mechanism has been burned out. It is the car that Lindbergh used during the kidnaping investigation. On that night in August, Anne Lindbergh, the expectant mother, was a passenger on the mercurial journey, just as she had been at the side of her mate when he made his sensational crosscountry flight a few weeks before the birth of the first baby and has been since. In less than thirty minutes, the sedan drew up to a halt in front of an august white apartment house at East Sixty-Sixth Street, Manhattan. Unrecognized by any one save the detectives who were posted throughout the premises, the Lindberghs repaired to the town apartment of Stephen Birch, the copper king, which occupies the entire top floor of the building.

The Morrows had formerly occupied the apartment, but had sub-let it to Mr. Birch. The latter was out of town at the time. One room of the resplendent quarters' had been fitted up as a temporary hospital. Employes of the building and the nurses and doctors who had been engaged to officiate at the birth had been sworn to the strictest secrecy as to Mrs.

Lindbergh's whereabouts. It was in the New York apartment, then, that little Jon came into the world on August 16, 1932. Lindbergh, long a past master at outwitting the press and public in his frantic quest for his in- uesentation of what the management wished On a Rose-Strewn Bed in a Paris Hotel, Mrs. Douglas Williams (Above), One-Time Wife of a New York Broker, Killed Herself Because She Was "too courageous" to Live Any Longer. American girls to do to earn their salaries, climax came when the producer ordered ni to appear upon the stage virtually nude.

Then Ruth and the others rebelled and walked "of the theatre. There was immediate appeal the American Consul, and the "Follies" girls Lirned home in tears and mortification. time, and were there reconciled and remarried. Eut there was no lasting peace in the household. One night in Nice, Nixon-Nirdlinger, so his wife testified later, accused her of flirting with an Italian, struck her and threatened to disinherit the children.

Then he threw her upon a bed and choked her, she said. In fear of her life, as she described the scene, she caught up a revolver and shot him four times. He died at once. She was acquitted of murder. France exerted its macabre influence upon two lerican lives, and one went out later in a puff revolver smoke.

This was when Charlotte -h, "Miss St. Louis." in a national beauty con- killed her husband, Fred G. Nixon-Nird- rer, a i'miaaeipma theatrical manager. 37 EXT EEK Further detailed disclosure about the precautions taken at the Morrow home at Engle-tcvud, Jersey, to prevent mishap from tisitinp little Jon Morrow Lindbergh. It occurred in their villa at Nice, on the nch Riviera.

Ever since their wedding, when was eighteen, Charlotte said, he had been Uy and unfairly jealous of her. They had in Paris, been divorced there after a stormy jr EXT WEEK The third analrtit in this eriet dealing with the tragic ttraitt in tchich American girlt find themsvlres in Paris trill' reveal other caiet of desperation trhich hare led manr to "the easiest trar out." TP 5 TTHJ TH ST IS A UD IE flg, WKUTE PATTERN DEPARTMENT 17.243 LETTERS COMIC SECTION DEPARTMENT 610 LETTERS SECKATARY HAWKINS FAIR AND SQUARE CLUB 996 LETTERS OTHER FEATURES c- 216 LETTERS Are you taking full advantage of trie service your paper offers?.

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