Sensational rumours were current here to-day to the effect. that Col-fond and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. who recently left the United States with their small son Jon following the receipt of letters threatening to kidnap the boy, will not be on board the s. American Importer when the vessel docks here to-morrow.
London, Dec. 28.
The use of wireless by the police 1s extending from. the Metropolitan force to police forces throughout the country.
Several regional schemes are being established, Nottingham is the centre of the Midlands regional scheme and the experience already gained by the Nottingham police in the use of wire-Jess for the prevention and detection made available for The authorities have found that they can keep in touch with motor patrols within a radius of about miles from the station. Plans now being put into effect are the result of consultations with the Home Ome.
By means of about eight regional stations which will have direct. con tact when necessary with Scotland Yard, it ts hoped to cover the whole of England and) Woles.—Wireless Through Rewt The Lindberghs, who left the Unit fed States in this ship, were alleged to have boarded their own—plane Jsome distance from the English coast Jatter the vessel, which they had chartered, had. been stopped.
Their destination has not yet been discovered, although itis known to be somewhere in the British Isles—Havas.
No Reprieve for Bruno Hauptmann Trenton, N.J., Dec. 26.
Mr. Harold G. Hoffman, Governor Jot New Jersey, to-day declared that he did not contemplate, at the present lime, granting a reprieve to Bruno /Richard Hauptmann should the New JJersey Court of Pardons refuse commute the sentence of death passed on the carpenter for the Murder of the 2i-month-old son Col. and Mrs, Charles Lindbergh—Rut
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