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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 49, December 2, 2001, Article 10

  LINDBERG BABY KIDNAPPING

  "Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., twenty-month-old  son of
  the famous aviator and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was
  kidnapped about 9:00 p.m., on March 1, 1932, from the
  nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home near
  Hopewell, New Jersey.

  The President's Proclamation requiring the return to the
  Treasury of all gold and gold certificates was a valuable
  aid in the case, inasmuch as $40,000 of the ransom money
  had been paid in gold certificates and, at the time of the
  Proclamation, a large portion of this money was known to
  be outstanding. Therefore, this phase of the investigation
  was emphasized.

  On January 17, 1934, a circular letter was issued by the New
  York City Bureau Office to all banks and their branches in
  New York City, requesting an extremely close watch for the
  ransom certificates and, in February, 1934, all Bureau Offices
  were supplied with copies of the Bureau's revised pamphlet
  containing the serial numbers of ransom bills.  The New York
  City Bureau Office distributed copies of this pamphlet to
  each employee handling currency in banks, clearinghouses,
  grocery stores in certain selected communities, insurance
  companies, gasoline filling stations, airports, department stores,
  post offices, and telegraph companies.

  Following the distribution of these booklets containing the
  serial number of the ransom currency, there were also prepared
  and similarly distributed by the Bureau currency key cards
  which, in convenient form, set forth the inclusive serial numbers
  of all of the ransom notes which had been paid.  This was
  followed by frequent personal contacts with bank officials and
  with individual employees in an effort to keep alive their
  interest."

  http://www.charleslindbergh.com/kidnap/index.asp

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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