The Archive · 1934

CAPONE ALLEGED TO BE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPER

Joliet, MI, July 21.

Another alleged "true" story" of the kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr, infant son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.

Lindbergh, noted flyers, was told to-day by' John Pawelezicy, a convict in Milinols State Prison on conviction for manslaughter.

Pawelczyk told the Warden, Mr. Frank B. Whipp, that he had learned the "inside story" of the tragedy from his underworld companions.

He named Frank Nash and Al Capone, former king of the Chicago underworld, as the master minds behind the plot which was an effort to free Capone from Leavenworth Federal Prison where he is serving sentence for failure to pay his income taxes.

Capone is still in prison but Nash, according to the Joliet convict, was Iilled in the gangster massacre at Union Station in Kansas City last yea Warden Whipp took the story seriously enough to advise Federal agents who immediately started an investigation, Several other allege true stories" have been told police but all have proven false. Federal and state officers, however, leave no chance not taken or stone unturned to unravel one of the most famous and difficult murder cases in the history of the nation—United Press.

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