HOPEWELL, N. J., May 12. (AP) — Formal announcentent that a body of a baby, identified through clothing and other means as the missing son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, had been found was made late today at the Lindbergh estate.
The formal statement:
"We have to announce apparently that the body of the Lindbergh baby was found at 3:15 p.m. William Allen, a negro, was riding from Mount Rose, N. J., to Hopewell with Orville Wilson oh a truckload of timber. They stopped the truck near a woods. He, Allen, went into the woods on the Mount Rose Hill in Mount Rose, N. J. Going under the bush he lowered his head and as he raised a branch he saw a skeleton on the ground, and a person's foot.
"He called back to Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson ran into the woods, saw what it was and decided to go to Hopewell to get police. They notified Chief Wolf of the Hopewell police who notified these headquarters. Inspector Walsh of Jersey City, Sergt. Moffett of the Newark police, Lieut. K. eat on of the New Jersey state police and a number of other detectives immediately went to the scene.
"They reported finding the body of a child estimated to be between 11-2 and 2 years old in a bad state of decomposition, having blonde hair and wearing what appeared to DC an undershirt and a flannel band around the body.
"Not satisfied with this as identification the men sent back to Hopewell to the Lindbergh estate to get samples of the undershirt the baby wore and of the flannel shirt the baby had on the night of the kidnaping (March 1). This flannel shirt had an embroidered collar on it. These articles were taken back to the scene and were compared with the clothing found on the body and were matched closely enough to afford an identification of the body as that of the Lindbergh baby."
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