HEADLINE: CIVIL SUIT IS FILED AGAINST SUSPECT IN LINDBERGH CASE
American Express Company is Seeking to Recover $5,110 Traveler’s Checks
The law closed in a bit more on James P. Taylor, 30, suspect in the Lindbergh kidnapping, murder case, with the filing of a civil suit against him to recover $5,110 by the American Express Co., one of the issuers where its travelers checks were stolen from the bank where Lindbergh disappeared.
Saying that Taylor converted that amount of checks to his own use, the complaint named him as defendant, giving seven aliases, among which were Charles D. Kenwell, J.B. O’Malley, and Herbert Johnson.
Most of the $14,000 in traveler’s checks taken from the Northern State Bank of Thief River Falls on November 12, were previously recovered in Detroit, Michigan where Taylor, using the Kenwell alias, is said to have sought to open a bank account. There were also some Bank of America checks included in the total.
All but $20 of the remainder of the loot, which consists of $1750 in silver coins, was recovered; $1530 locked in the trunk of Lindbergh’s abandoned car, and $200 beside his body where he had been murdered near Clear Lake, Minnesota.
Taylor is now being held in Hennepin County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail pending federal grand jury action later this month. He is charged with transporting stolen traveler’s checks across state lines.
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