SILENCE MAINTAINED BY ALL AUTHORITIES AS RUMOR IS SIFTED

STORY SAYS KIDNAPPER, WOMAN AND CHILD STOPPED

AT RAYMOND H. SEARS HOME NIGHT OF KIDNAPPING

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    Pennsylvania State Police are working on a report that the missing baby was in Danville the night it was kidnapped, five or six hours after its disappearance from its parents’ home in Hopewell, N.J. This become definitely known night after a day of wild rumors in which the name of Raymond H. Sears was advanced as the local man who saw the baby, and talked to its kidnapper, a former Danville man. The kidnapper and babe are now in Elmira, N.Y. the rumor said, and state police with Mr. Sears and county authorities were said last night to be ready to start at once to the New York state town in an effort to capture the suspect.

    The kidnapper roused Mr. Sears from his bed at 3 o’clock a week ago Wednesday morning the report said and attempted to borrow $300 from him. In the car parked at the Sears home at 127 W. Mahoning Street were a woman and baby, according to the report. 

State Police in Case

     The Pennsylvania State police are working on the local man’s tip, whatever it was. This much was confirmed by the Morning News last night. However, Major Lynn J. Adams, commander of the state police force, refused to divulge the nature of the tip or the search that is being made by his state troopers. “To say anything now would jeopardize our work,” he declared. “A life may depend upon any false step at this time.”

    Mr. Sears last night, while denying the above story, admitted that authorities were working on a lead he had supplied, and that the utmost secrecy was required to assure success. He refused to comment upon the tip he had supplied or to divulge the nature of his information. Danville Morning News (Danville, Pennsylvania) 12 March 1932 Pg. 1

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On May 12, 1932, the body of the kidnapped baby was accidentally found, partly buried, and badly decomposed, about four and a half miles southeast of the Lindbergh home, 45 feet from the highway, near Mount Rose, New Jersey, in Mercer County.