$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
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