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COP DISGUISED AS LINDY APPEARS AT MEETING PLACE

Avenues of Approach Left Open to Parents; Police Are Kept in Dark

BRISTOL, Pa., March 7. (U.P.)-

Two men and a woman were arrested today at Croyden in connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping, and brought to police headquarters here for questioning.

The police had obtained possession of a letter demanding $50,000 ransom for the Lindbergh baby and declaring that unless Mr. and Mrs. Lindbergh answered the note in person at 8 p.m. tonight their child would be killed.

"FAKE" LINDBERGH

A trooper resembling Lindbergh was sent to Croyden with a woman dressed to simulate Mrs. Lindbergh. Police surrounded the spot.

At the point designated in the letter, the police waited shortly before 8 p.m. An automobile with a Pennsylvania license drove up and stopped. Its occupants, two men and a woman were arrested and brought to Bristol.

AVENUES OPEN

HOPEWELL, N. J., March 7 (U.P.) -

New avenues through which the kidnaped Lindbergh baby may be returned to his parents were opened tonight by the establishment of a closer liaison between Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and the New York underworld leaders who were appointed to act as go-betweens.

This development led to increased activity at the Lindbergh country home and stimulated the hope that some contact had been made which might restore 20-month old Charles Augustus within the next 24 hours.

Those close to the Colonel and his wife--now near the "breaking point" after six days of agony--were making frequent secret trips beyond the borders of the estate.

How closely they were working with Salvy Spitale and Irving Bitz the New York intermediaries, could not be learned because all of the negotiations were being conducted without knowledge of the police.

The United Press was informed, however, that through friends who have come to his aid in this emergency, Colonel Lindbergh was keeping in touch with the Manhattan connections and opening every possible channel through which the baby might be returned.

It was reported that Col. Lindbergh was considering the offer of a $50,000 reward for return of the baby, in order to make it easy for the kidnapers to bring back the child "with no questions asked."

State police expressed the official belief today that the child was "still alive." Pressed with questions regarding some tangible reason for this belief, they were unable to give one.

NO NEWS OF BABY

"The fact that we have no news of injury or death of the baby," it was said, "may prompt the conviction that he has been unharmed."

Meanwhile, the condition of Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who has borne up bravely through the long week, gave some concern to her family and friends. Those close to the Lindberghs admitted that the strain had begun to tell tremendously on her vitality.

The state troopers who have swarmed over the Lindbergh farm ever since the startling announcement of last Tuesday night that the baby had vanished from his crib on the second floor of the Lindbergh home, indicated today a willingness to withdraw at least temporarily from the case if that would aid the Colonel to get his baby back.

Governor A. Harry Moore, however, said openly that in his position he was stopped by law from making any offer of immunity to the criminals.

Despite these conflicting reports it was generally understood that the "gate is wide open" for the kidnapers to negotiate with the Colonel or his representatives, and that the law will not step in to prevent such a termination of the most notorious kidnaping case in the history of the United States.

GANG AUTHORITY

According to all information at Hopewell, Spitale, named as an agent to whom any person having

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the child can go without fear of reprisal, has complete authority to arrange for the transfer of the ransom and the restoration of Charles Augustus without danger of police action.

The daily police conference at Trenton, as usual by telephone with the authorities at the "field headquarters" in Hopewell, resulted in a new crop of conflicting statements and rumors.

There was a denial—one of many—that ransom was mentioned in the original note left by the kidnappers when they snatched the baby from his cradle last Tuesday night.