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Show OGDEN CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1932.Baby's Crib and Grave In ThicketFirst photograph of the crib from which Baby Lindbergh was kidnaped March 1, showing ruffled blankets left as they were when boy was stolen; and below spot where body was found 72 days later.SLEUTHS NOT SURE RANSOM WAS GIVEN TO KIDNAPEROriginal Note Giving Mystic Symbol Seen By SeveralTRICK IS SUSPECTEDSleeping Suit, Safety Pins Insufficient EvidenceHOPEWELL, N. J May 14. (AP) The detective brains of a nation concentrated today on a prime dilemma in the Lindbergh murder mystery.Was the 50, 000 ransom collected by the actual murders in a ghoulish swindle plot, or was it collected by racketeers seeking to cash in, like parasites of crime, on an act committed by someone else?It centered about a baby's sleeping suit, two safety pins and an illiterate note signed by a strange symbol. Yesterday the tide of opinion seemed to be swinging to the theory that the murderers got the money, but last night and today doubts crept in again.The authorities were trying to determine whether the cabalistic ransom note left in the nursery when Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was stolen, could have got into the hands, soon after the kidnaping, of any person save Colonel Lindbergh and those working with him.ROSNER HAD NOTEMorris Rosner, mysterious undercover man for Colonel Lindbergh in his attempts to negotiate with the kidnapers, came to Hopewell for questioning. Rosner was said to have received the ransom note, which he took to New York. From the note, it was asserted, tracings were made for the use of Savatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, also chosen by the Lindberghs to deal with the underworld.The note, after ordering Lindbergh to have 50, 000 ready and declaring the child is in gut care, indicated future letters could be identified by a strange symbol consisting of overlapping circles drawn in blue ink, with a red ellipse in the overlapping part. These small holes completed the design.The note was taken to New York by Rosner almost a month befpre Dr. John F. Condon (Jafsie) paid 50,000 in a Bronx cemetery to a man who showed evidence that he was connected with the kidnapers. There was no suggestion, however, that Rosner acted in anything but good faith, and a friend of his said he would cooperate with the authorities fully |