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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