Universal sympathy will be extended to Colonel and Mrs. Lindberg: fat the new danger threatening their family happiness, It is now confirmee that kidnapping threats against their young son Jon have compelled them {To leave the United States and seax refuge elsewhere In order to give their son the advantages of a normal childhood free from the threats and sorrows which seem to beset the lives of this distinguished but persecuted couple. 'The three are" now on the high seas bound for England where they Intend to reside indefinitely, 1 seems incredible in these days that suck an action could be forced' upon them but in the memory of the earlier tragedy in their lives no other course was apparently open {0 them. Tt will be the hope of everybody that the family may. find peace, contentment and security in the country of thei: temporary adoption for, as the world Jenows, great_ag have been the honours stowed on Colonel Lindbergh for his aviation prowess equally great has been the sorrow injected into the lives of his wife and himself malicious fate followed. in thei footsteps defeating every hope and triumph, Tt would be unwise attach to the departure of the Lind-borghs any suggestion that the enforcement of law in the United States has broken down. 'To do so would be to deny the existence of demonstrable facts, But they are individuals who Ihave a second baby, who fear. that the fate of the first' may be. that of ho second, and they realize that while the Taw can punish the crlmina), cannot prevent his hideous acts. Their decision to flee to, England the nature of 8 compliment.' It proclaims to the world at large that the certainty of punishment for the discovered criminal is one of the best deterrents of crime, and they have decided to seek refuge under a system which procures speedy justice. "Mr. Clarence Darrow Is perfectly correct in his Judgment that the Hittle Jon ix safer in England than in the United States, but his parents' have the knowledge that justice is swifter and. x0. implacable. that.. fear is stricken into the heart of the would-be wrong doer, who thereby is made to face a degree of inevitability before which the craven heart, of those who would wreak their evil Will upon_a small child is definitely deforced from his purpose. The alf Meulties of administering the Jaw in the United States is well known, [There are so many Tooplioles that: the average criminal has a lixed convicfion that there is a possibility, of getting, away vith it") But in Enst-and the time be ween the commission fof a crime and the day on which the fiend penalty may have to be aid, ig stich as to give even the most hardened gangster food for deep and penetrating, thought.
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