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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 41

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fir HAPPY AGAIN This Photo of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A 0 Lindbergh Was Taken Before Sorrow Came to Them with the Dealh of Their First Child. Today They Are Happy in the Love of Their Second Son But the Price of Happiness Is POLICE HEADQUARTERS it a i a AT 4 M.i Eternal Vigilance- and a Complex Network TO REACH TH MORROW HOUSE IN 90 SECONDS A ieid This Famous Infant i i I 1 .3 A I-'! CHAINED GATEWAY yT-C5 WHERE ALL TRAFFIC J-y v-AsX J000 IS HALTED AND ALL kch' callers authenticated I 0WM 1c state v. 7 "sLATE STATI0N OF PATROL MAINTAINED GY 6UARD5 ItfHT uJ fciKiSSi ROUTE (Above) A Motorist Questioned by a Guard Before Being Allowed to Drive Through the Morrow Estate. All Strangers Are Logically Regarded with Suspicion.

1 PREfiaaeo to answer, 7 ORTRESS FOR A CHILD Estate at Englewood, N. Showing Just How (Against Intrusion, as a Protection for Colonel and Son, Jon. Heavily-Armed Guards, Trained Dogs, wreck. The driver miraculously escaped death, the he could go. But they neglected to report their findings to the man at the entrance.

The sentry, in the absence of word from the house, had meanwhile strung a heavy, specially-constructed chain between the two stout stone pillars on either side of the.driveway entrance to make certain that the car could not leave the grounds until he found out what it was all about. Presently he saw the cab tearing down the driveway. The chauffeur was still in-very much of a hurry. The area near the entrance is quite dark at night and the cabby didn't see the chain strung across his path. Nor did he hear the warning shout of the sentry.

The hood of the taxi struck the chain with terrific force and the car rebounded thirty feet and turned turtle, a total 1 and a storehouse of Weapons and Ammunition to Undesirable "persons not wanted." were lying: in wait for the taxi when it approached. Everything, it so happened, turned out to be harmless enough. The cab bore one of the Morrow servants, who had been out visiting for the evening. The driver, who had been in more of a rush than the average cabby, had merely dispensed with the formality of stopping at the booth for permission to proceed into the grounds. The guards at the house, after concluding that everything was all right, warned the driver 2 i never to repeat the performance, then told him i I OTA mencaoyirisinrans v-V HrvVVWi VA 1 iu jr i NO TAMPERING This Is the Gate on the Spear Avenue Side of the Morrow Property.

It Has Been Chained Up Since Jon Morrow Lindbergh Was Born. Any Attempt to Tamper with the Chain or to Scale the Gate-Regardless of the Hour Quickly Brings Several Armed Men to the Scene. i chain, despite the strain imposed upon it by the impact of the speeding machine, didn't reveal a single weak link. So you can see that it's one thing to get into the grounds and yet another to get out. Every eventuality has been anticipated by those who mapped out the details for guarding the baby.

The private wires that run between the Morrow property and the State and Englewood police are buried underground part of the way, so that it is almost impossible to cut them. The wires are frequently tested, to make certain that they would serve their purpose, should the occasion arise. One guard is never very far from the police telephone in the mansion, so that no matter what happened outside of the house he would have ample opportunity to send through the alarms. The wires from the house would be utilized in the event that someone somehow managed to slip past the guards who patrol the desolate outposts of the property. The concealed telephones in the trees would be the tip-off mediums if a motorcade of three or four cars suddenly swept into the grounds through the driveway.

One of the men on duty near the entrance, merely by pressing the buttons attached to the hidden could notify the police before the cars were halfway up the driveway. A CONCERTED effort to storm the grounds would not only necessitate the intruders facing the withering fire of the ever-alert guards; they would be up against His Inexorable Majesty, Time. They could not allow themselves one instant more than ninety seconds on the property, the greater part of which time would be consumed driving to and from the house, if they hoped to make a getaway before the arrival of the police. For the efficient and ever-ready Englewood police, with their plentiful supply of riot and machine guns to augment the armaments at the mansion, would be on the scene in not more than a minute and a half. The State police would be there in less than five minutes.

Englewood Headquarters is little over a mile distant and the Alpine barracks of the State police is less than three miles away. The swift journey to the Morrow home from each point has been clocked; it's not a theory. And, if a "wanted" car did get in and out, it wouldn't get far. Every possible road would be -closed by State and local police for the fugitives would not have a start, as did the Hopewell kidnapers. For several months after Jon's birth, the State Police and the Englewood authorities were in charge of the patrol at the Morrow estate.

Now the watch is kept entirely by private policemen, who are paid each week by Colonel Lindbergh. These men, whose number and identities are a secret, are thoroughly experienced in police work of one form or another. All are crack shots and all have come through the acid tests of bravery and integrity, not once but many times. Their records are open books. The authorities placed the career of each man, from his birth on, under the official magnifying glass and submitted a detailed report to Colonel Lindbergh for his personal okay.

r-1 v. The'guards never leave the grounds, except when they have a day off or when they patrol the roads surrounding the estate. They eat their meals in the mansion and sleep there. Their jobs are good as long as they care to stay, inasmuch as Colonel Lindbergh and the former Anne Morrow have no intention of relaxing the vise-like vigilance over their second son. Then, too, the Morrow family has long been noted in exclusive circles for being most considerate of their employes.

Very rarely is anyone discharged. Com paratively high wages are paid and everything is done to make the employes happy. 'PHE guards have no specified routine. Like all police work, their activities are attuned to prevailing conditions. On murky, moonless nights, when visibility is poor, they cover considerably more ground than on clear nights, when they could spot an intruder a hundred or more feet distant.

Of a pleasant Sunday, when many automobiles pass the property, there is more concentration on the entrance than there is, for instance, on a dull weekday. When little Jon is wheeled over the lawn by his nurse, Betty Gow, the vigilance naturally is at its zenith. At no time since he was dramatically whisked to the Englewood estate following his secret birth in a New York apartment has the baby been more than a few feet away from at least one guard. For always there remains the spector of another golden-haired little "boy before Jon. li Mrs.

Josephine R. Bigelow, a Beauty of Boston's Exclusive Dack Bay District, Who Died in an Apparent -Suicide Pact in New York with Henry G. Paris Was Unable to Conquer the Firm Spirit of This Beautiful Texas Girl, the Countess Ladine. Young de Martino, Who Learned Early of Its Perils for Young Women and Was Bravely Able to Avoid Them. temptations were placed before her, but the young Texas girl was level of head and it could not be turned.

Union with the count was not successful and the countess set out to tour the world. She said recently that she had no idea where the count was now that he was out of her life. Crosby (Right), Nephew of the J. P. Morgans, Who Shot Her and Then Himself After He Had Wearied of Wild Parties in Paris.

women in Paris is the triumph over its pitfalls of a beautiful Texan who became a countess. The Countess Ladine Young de Martino, known amon; her friends as "Queen of the Globe Trotters," met her Count Mexico and they were married. They lived all over the world, but for a Ions time in Paris, where the countess was invariably the center of a regiment of admirers. Many "faTEXT EEK: Still more exclusive detail at to how JL the Lindbergh baby i safeguarded on the Morrow estate at Engleicood, New Jersey, where every recognized modern scientific device is utilised as a protective agency by the family of year-old little Jon, set forth by the tcriter uho i. acknowledged to be an authority on the subject.

EXT WEEK This chronicle of the' desperation into uhich American students and others are plunged by life in. Paris under modern conditions uill be continued uilh narration of some 4 the tragedies uhich, have oiertaken numerous young American men and women uho had so hopefully sought success in the French capital. OUR PRESIDENTS AT A GLANCE The entire series of presidential biographies which recently appeared in The Constitution is available in permanent form for 45 cents or by mail for 50 cents. It is valuable as a textbook or for reference work, but even more valuable as thrilling, entertaining reading matter. Don't delay getting your copy.

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