DECEMBER 7, 1955

Wednesday, December 7, 1955

HEADLINE: MORE THAN 1,100 AT LINDBERGH RITES

Many out-of-town Friends and Relatives Present

More than 1,100 persons attended final rites at Trinity Lutheran Church last Wednesday for Kenneth E. Lindbergh, who had been abducted and slain the night of November 12.


Among the out-of-town relatives in attendance were Mrs. Donald Miller and Marvin Lindberg from Pullman, Washington, Clara Wold, Emma Rhodegaard, and Mrs. Harry Dow from Duluth, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Peterson, Harry Hall, and Mrs. Fred Norquist of Minneapolis. Roy Lonson and Arnold Rustad of St. Paul, Minnesota, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Snyder and Mrs. Jack Trask, (nee Jeannie Davidson) from Moline, Illinois, Hartley Peterson, Holt; Mr. and Mrs. William Lindbergh and Mrs. J.J. Davidson of Warren.


Others were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mulcaphy, Mrs. Alma Ogaard, Mr. and Mrs. Arland Ogaard, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Ogaard, Mr and Mrs. Sidney DeLisle, Mrs. Steernerson, Barbara Ogaard, Mrs. Minnie Sylvester, and Etta Ogaard of Crookston. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Ogaard and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mosher of Beltrami.


Also present were numerous area bank representatives and other friends.


HEADLINE NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN K. LINDBERGH CASE

The past week has furnished no new developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping -- murder case according to Arthur Rambeck, Pennington County Sheriff.


Last known trace of the man or men who disappeared with Kenneth Lindbergh, cashier of the Northern State Bank here, along with $1750 and silver coin and $14,000 in negotiable travelers checks on November 12, was three days after the date, in Chicago where some of the travelers checks were cashed.


Lindbergh’s body was found November 25 and an isolated, brushy slope in the village of Clear Lake where he had been killed by repeated blows on the back of the head from a bladed instrument.
Authorities believe that the frozen body had been there since early morning hours of the day after his disappearance. Two hundred dollars in missing silver were beside the body and $1530 of the silver loot was found the previous week in the locked truck of Lindbergh’s car. The car had been abandoned in Minneapolis.


Seven eight hundred dollars worth of travelers checks were recovered in Detroit two days after the kidnapping where the man named, Charles Kenwell sought to open a checking account and $560 worth have been cashed by the same man.


Another $200 in traveler’s checks were cashed in Minneapolis about seven hours after Lindbergh had called his wife from Detroit Lakes telling her he wouldn’t be home for about four hours.


The Minneapolis checks where cashed by Herbert F. Johnson, the same name given Lindbergh by a man who called him to arrange an after hours appointment, to talk over a property transaction involving $25,000 in cash.


The caller had said he would arrive in Thief River Falls on the North Central Airlines plane at 3:22 p.m.. Four passengers had displaned here that day. Three of the passengers were known area residents. The fourth had registered under the name of J. O’Malley the same name as used by a passenger on the Chicago and Minneapolis flight the day before.


Sheriff Rambeck and Elton Cummings, Chief of Police in T.R.F., who had been working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation agent locally assigned to the case, said that local persons who observed the man using the name of Johnson and O’Malley have been showing numerous rogue gallery photos of a man who fit the description, but as yet have come up with no positive identification.


Both stated that there are other leads being run down on which complete information can not be made available.


PICTURE CAPTION: PALLBEARERS CARRY LINDBERGH CASKET FROM CHURCH

Shown above are the pallbearers carrying the casket away from Trinity Lutheran Church last Wednesday afternoon following funeral rites for the late Kenneth E. Lindbergh who met a violent death at the hands of an abductor the night of November 12 near Clear Lake, Minnesota.


Standing in the church doorway are Mrs. Lindbergh and the three of her four children: Janice, Ronald, and Evonne. Pallbearers include Roy Lonson, Howard Holum, Alvin Christofferson, Clifford Bjorkman, JM Roche, Morris Howick, Robert J. Lund, and George F. Gessner.


A record gathering of approximately 1,100 persons attended the services conducted by the Reverend Otto Dale Trinity pastor and the Reverend Walter M. Pederson of Zion Church. A comforting message was read by Reverend G. S. Thompson of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, former Trinity pastor.