Imperial Valley Press

SON BORN TODAY TO LINDBERGH

Famous Flyer Chuckles As He Confirms News To Reporters.

SILENT ON DETAILS Mother And Son Reported Doing Well At Morrow Residence.

Editor's Note: The United Press was advised by the Morrow home that no information would be given out at this time regarding the baby's name, weight, color of hair, eyes, etc. Reasons for this action are obvious.

ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Aug. 16. (U.P.) - Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh today appealed to the press "permit our children to lead the lives of normal Americans." "It is impossible," the colonel said "for us to subject the life of our second son to the publicity which we feel was in a large measure responsible for the death of our first."

ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Aug. 16 (U.P.)—A son was born to Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, the former Anne Morrow, at 7:30 a. m. today. The mother and infant were reported "doing well." Shortly after the birth of the child, the United Press telephoned the Morrow estate and Colonel Lindbergh verified the birth of his second son. He chuckled happily as congratulations were given him. This second son was born approximately three months after their first child, Charles Augustus, Jr., had been found slain a few miles from the Lindbergh estate at Hopewell, N. J. The first son was kidnaped from the Lindbergh home on the night of March 1. It was shortly after the first son was stolen from his nursery crib that it became known Mrs. Lindbergh was expecting another child. Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, told of the expected baby, hoping the revelation might soften the hearts of the kidnappers and induce them to return the little blonde haired Charles, Jr. The months of search, international in scope, went on. Mrs. Lindbergh bore up as a true Spartan mother. She counseled with her young husband and her mother, and helped manage the household which suddenly had been transformed into a police barracks. Not once during that trying ordeal did she fully give way to her pent up grief. She was reported verging on illness, but her spirit did not falter. Then, the body of her baby was found. The body was left in a mud hole near the Hopewell estate.

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body in the woods within sight of the Lindbergh estate.
The child was identified by means of the dainty infant garments found on the body.
Mrs. Lindbergh never saw the mutilated body of her first born.
Colonel Lindbergh went alone into the mortuary at Trenton, N. J., grief-stricken and bowed by the tragedy and strain of the long months he had searched for his son. He stood there silently examining the small form.
"Yes. it is my son," he replied bluntly to a question.
The body was cremated.
Slowly the great police force moved out of the lonely Lindbergh home in the Sourland hills. The Lindberghs finally closed the estate and came to the Morrow home on the wooded hills above Englewood to await the birth of her second child.
ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Aug. 16. (U.P.) — No precaution is being overlooked by the Lindberghs in their attempt to protect their second son from the glare of fame they regard as partly responsible for the loss of their other baby.
Doctors, nurses, servants, all who had any knowledge of today's birth in the Morrow home at Englewood, were sworn to secrecy. New York physicians who attended Mrs. Lindbergh refrained from discussing her condition with friends or associates.
Although newspapermen stood at the gate to the Morrow homestead for days, they were given no information either before or after the birth. After the baby was born this morning, Lindbergh confirmed the fact by telephone, but that was all. The reporters at the gate learned it from their offices in New York.
The only news allowed to escape from the sheltered homestead was that the baby was a boy and that baby and mother were well.
Whether the second son is large or small, whether he will be given the name of junior and whether he resembles his murdered brother were closely guarded secrets.
The Lindberghs plan to return to their Hopewell estate and reports are that ground guards have been arranged so no one may approach the property without being sighted by at least one guard.