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! - w— Hobby (iene Camp Wonders: Can A Former Farmville Boy Be the Lindbergh Baby?

For years now the Flying Dutch man. the ghost ship tha sails thp Seven Seas, has been sighted along the horizons of the world. On the land, another recurring chest, that of the Lindbergh baby, has been sighted. It was 25 years ago, March 1, ii'32, that a cold, raw wirtd whistled around the New Jersey home of Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow. A quarter of a century las passed since Lindbergh heard a sound like "tiie top slats of an orange box falling off a chair," made a futile check of the nursery, anc told Mrs. Linibergh. "Anne, they lave stolen our baby."

Two Months ol Headlines For two months, tt e nation's newspapers headlined stories of the search efforts. Finally. <n May 12 Lindbergh was told that t is son was dead. William Allen, a Negro track driver had stumbled ont* the body of a baby in the woods not far from Lindbergh's home. Although the body wcs .pitifully decomposed, the world believed that it was Charles A Lindbergh. Jr.. . the 19-month-old son of 1 le nation's hero. There were some peop e working on the case, though, who vere never convinced that the body found face down in a shallow hole in t far from an orphanage was that o: the Lind bergh baby. The boy's nurse identified the stitching in the nightshi t us the type of thread that she hid used to sew the garment. Someone noticed that, the body had a toe deformity similar to that of the missing child. Lindbergh said. "Yes. this is my son." And so the evidence mounted Greensboro Paper Getls Story Just as there are recurring re ports of sighting the Fly ng Dutch man. so are there recurring rumors • that the Lindbergh baby still lives The latest comes from ti e Greens boro. N. C., Daily News. Soon after young Lindbergh was kidnapped, a North Carolina textile worker and his wife adopted a child. Bryant Madison >Vicki Camp, and his wife, Annie Maude, told neighbors in Shelby. N. C.. that they had adopted the ch Id. which closely resembled the Lindbergh baby, in Charlotte. Bobby Jean, they called him. a name which was later ms sculinized to Bobby Gene. Bobby was ioc young at the time to notice the stares of strangers and that news j a per stories compared him to 'he missing Lindbergh baby. Bobby has noticed, now Snatches of conversation, yellowed 1 ewspaper clippings and a series of uncanny events have left him wondering who he is. He believes that he might possibly be Lindbergh's son. but he makes no such claim "Don't let Vick scare ycu you're

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not bis boy.” relatives told Bobby when he was a child. ‘‘You're not Vick’s boy. you’re the Lindbergh baby." Matt Camp, Vick’s brother, told him. “Go see Lindbergh and , you’ll never hurt for anything.” Matt said when he was dying. But Matt died without ever telling Bnbby bow he could prove such a statement.

t.Hiduergn (tippings round When Vick died in 1952. Bobby found among Ins things a trunk con taining clippings about Lindbergh's career, his marriage, the kidnap ing and the Lindbergh home. One of the clippings says, “Mr. and Mrs. Cam&, it will be recalled, have the baby that resembled the Lindbergh baby. Their two-year old child was taken on several occasions as the missing Lindbergh baby be fore the death of the famous flier's son was established. The Camp child was the same age and weight and had the same curly hair and blue eyes as the Lindbergh baby. Tlie Camp child is the pride of his foster parents and wherever they go, the child is taken along with them." One of the clippings tells of an offer of $50,000 for the "Lindbergh baby double." Purportedly the offer was made by a man and a woman, driving a car with Concord license plates, who saw Bobby in Shelby. Gaston B. Means, the man who got $104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean on the promise that he could buy the Lindbergh baby front the kidnapers, lived in Con cern.

$75,000 Offered for Boy W. K. Childrey. of Meherrin, a brother of Annie Maude, says that someone tried to buy Bobby from the Camps. He recalls at the time frequent m e n t i o n was made of Bobby's likeness to the Lindbergh baby. Childrey. however, scotches, the idee that the boy actually is the Lindbergh baby. He says that the boy was taken from a receiving home in Charlotte when lie was eight months old. The Camps had been married for II years then. The child’s mother was a Smith, the un married daughter of a well-to-do family. The Childreys visited the ’hild’s grandparents, and his mother visited him while he was a baby. Childrey says that he told Bobby hat he was adopted, something that neither Vick nor Annie Maude had lone, and who his mother was. He adds that the boy tried to contact ber. but that she refused to acknow ’edge him. James B. Smith, now 83 and a patient at the Presbyterian hospital :: Charlotte, was superintendent of public welfare in Cleveland county at the time cf the kidnaping and the placement of Bobby with t h e Camps. Smith Remembers Placement "I did go to Greensboro with Mr. and Mrs. Camp. I remember a lot of things about it. Mrs. Camp got sick on the way to Greensboro. I remember that." he reminisces. "And when we got there, we saw Dr. Phoenix. He took us to the child care hospital and we walked through rows of baby beds. That was in 1932 aud the depression was an. There were plenty of babies up for adoption then," Smith added. "The day after we brought that boy from Greensboro. Camp and his wife and I went to the clerk of the court in Shelby and made out some

papers. ' Still. I wasn't t<-> sure about Camp. I didn't know if he’d make a rood foster parent, so I told -the c erk not to make out adoption papets until I saw how the boy worked out at the Camp home. "I temcmber this so well, you see. because this was the last placement I handled. And it was done with so much secrecy. About two months after I placed the bay wiiii the’ Camps. I resigned from the v.r’late department. So I more or less forgot about the boy after it seemed that he’ was working out all right." Bi liews Boy Could Be Lindbergh Smith (toes believe that the boy could lit the Lindbergh baby. He suggests that possibly the kidnapers became scared w'it'.'. the furo r caused by the put licity given the case, and got rid of the child to protect themselves from arrest. The child could have been taken to North Carolina and given to a couple to be given to an adoption agency under a false name. With secrecy p e r v a ding all adoption agency actions, it “could have been dene," Smith says. Bruno Hauptman, who died for the crime April 11. 19,'iti. visited in North Carolina in' the early months of 193_\

As for Bobby, he says “the first I can remember. I lived i:i Shelby Then we moved to Farmville, where 1 remember Annie Maude keeping me close to iter. I mean site kept me in the house most of the time.” Camps Lived on Virginia Street The Camps. Bobby and Annie Maude, lived on Virginia street in

a house owned by George Rogers. Evidently Annie Maude and Vick were divorced, and Vick worked at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Petersburg. Mrs. J. E. Harris lived next door, and she noticed that Annie Maude kept the boy “rather sheltered- She was clean and well-groomed, and kept the bov well-dressed." Mrs. Han is recalls. Mrs. Harris recalls wondering about Annie Maude's frequent trips—“to a doctor in South Bos ton "—from which she always re lurned well-off. Mrs. Rogers, too. remembers considering Annie Maude “quite dressed up—she drove a car and all," and wondering about the source of her livelihood since at the time Annie Maude was working as a waitress at Shannon’s.

Mrs. A. O. Lafoon also lived next to the Camps in the 2(H) block on Virginia street, and her memories <■!' the Camps are similar to those of Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Rogers. Miss Adams Taught Bobby Miss Lucy Adams taught the boy in school in 1937-1938, when he was ‘ )ght years old and in the second giade. She remembers him as a pale sort, a rather retiling boy. In 1940, (lie mailed fist of circum stance struck Bpbby again. Annie Maude was found in back of a boor joint in Farmvilie. parked in her car. with a bullet through her head. “Suicide." the police said. Dr. Joseph H Smith was called in to certify ;! • death. He had not tw ated her before. He wroie on <ho ilevin certificate that the immediate cause of death

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was cerebral hermorrhage clue to run shot wound, isuit'dial He specified that the death was due to suicide. November ! ;. 5‘Wti, in a public place outside the corporate limits of Farmville. Means of in jury: revolver wound. Death at Big Oak Dr. Smith recalls that the death occurred beyond Mott ley's on Third street, at a filling station-restaurant combination know as "Big Oak.'1 Neither Dr. Smith nor the police have any records which would indi cate that Annie Maude’s death might not have been self-inflicted. Matt Camp said tiiat Annie Maude did not kill herself. The late J. T. Dcyne. the funeral director who handled arrangements for her burial November 17. 1940. is sup posed to have commented at the time on how strange it was that a woman should commit suicide by shoo'ing herself. "Ordinarily, women do not kill themselves with a gun: they take poison, slash their wrists or hang themselves,” he told friends. Dr. Smith corroborates Doyne's observa

' ions Mrs. Harris, too. does not believe that Annie Maude shot herself. “She was mortally afraid of dying—so afraid of so many things." Mrs. Han 15 recalls “She was so pos sessive with the boy. and with no one to leave him to, I just never have believed that she shot her self." Survivors Listed The Herald carried an obituary showing that the survivors were Bobby Camp, 11: three sisters. Mrs. Della Wood, of Clover: Mrs. Josie Newcomb, of North Carolina. Mrs. Hallie Hudson, of Farmville: two brothers* Fred Childrey, of North Carolina, and W. E. Childrey. of Farmville. No mention was made of Vick, yet it was Vick Camp who signed her death certificate as informant. His address was then 1364 C.C.C.. Petersburg, and he said that she was 40 years old and the daughter of Julia Tuck and Calvin Childrey. of Halifax county, and had lived in Prince Edward county two years at the time of her death.

Tiie V' K Childreys look the boy in. They hadj cared for him fre quently, even before Annie Maude’s death. Vick paid for Bobby’s board in the Childrey home. The Childreys moved to Meherrin. and Bobby may have gone to I he Lunenburg school after that. Vick took the child when he was about. 15 years old, as the Childreys recall. Bobby says. "I finished the eighth grade. Vick wanted me out of school so I could work. I did well in school and would have liked to have fin ished. but Vick wanted me out, so I Worked.” Lived fn Cedar Falls In 19-17. Vick and Bobby lived in r'edar Falls. Bobby remembers a black car driving up into the yard. There was a big man and a woman in the car. They got out pointed at me. I couldn't hear whet they w'ere saying, and Vick wouldn't tell me. even after they drove off.” ■Bobby relates, Bobby says that he is 2f> now, and uses July it as his birthday. That's just what Vick and Annie

Maude told him. After Vick died in 1952, Matt told Bobby that he was the Lindbergh baby. Bobby asked him why he hadn't told him that before, and Matt told him that he was afraid that Vick would kill him. Who Is Bobby? None of these things have helped Bobby find out who he is. There is no record of his adoption in Charlotte, but James B. Smith's explanation of depression adoption methods might explain thin. Bobby has spent about $500 trying to find out who he is. He has visited places in Virginia and the Carolinas he heard V:ck and Annie Maude mention, trying to track down leads as to his identity. He was here last summer. Now he is a doffer at a Cieens boro textile mill. As for the Lindberghs, a movie entitled "fne Spirit of St. Louis.' the life story of Charles A Lind bergh. is now being released, and there will probably he more reports o! the Fiyir.g Dutchman and Lind bergh bab’es

Our verdict had been given. With a word of com mendation the Judge discharged us, the ladies and gentlemen of the jury. The completed duty brought little relief. Instead there was a burden, a spiritual weight. Days of testimony and hours of deliberation had given an oppressive sense of the world's sin and suffering. The door of my church was open and I slipped inside. I was alone as the rays of the setting sun enhanced the rich colors of the windows. All was quiet. I dropped to my knees. Gradually in the solemn beauty of that sacred place I found peace. Here was sanctuary for me and for all who would come in faith believing. Thankfully I arose; my heart and mind felt calm and refreshed. I could go home now, but I would return often. In glad fellowship with God’s people I would worship the Christ who died that men might be forgiven. ; 4

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