HEADLINE: MURDER CASE PROBERS GIVE UP PROPOSAL TO SEARCH LAKE BOTTOM
A planned search by skin divers of the bottom of Crescent Lake, near which Kenneth Lindbergh’s body was found November 25, was canceled on Wednesday.
Informed sources had previously indicated that the ice covered little lake might possibly yield up the bladed instrument with which the Thief River Falls banker was murdered.
There is also a chance that his assailant may have discarded a blood splattered topcoat in the lake before leaving the murder area near Clear Lake, Minnesota.
The 44-year-old cashier of the Northern State Bank was believed to have been killed during the night after his disappearance on Saturday, November 12.
At the time there was no snow on the ground and most lakes were not frozen over.
Shortly after the body was found by three young rabbit hunters, the public had been alerted to be on the lookout for the murder weapon and for a blood splattered topcoat.
Two days later it was revealed that a hatchet and an army entrenching tool, (a short handled shovel), were in Lindbergh’s car which had been abandoned in Minneapolis and found there a week before the discovery of the body.
The coat being sought is described as being brown or tan in color, single breasted with buttons concealed by a flap.
That last description of one worn by a stranger who met Lindbergh in Thief River Falls and was later seen on the man with the banker in Detroit Lakes.
A man who checked out of the Nicolet Hotel and Minneapolis early the next morning wore no overcoat.
Travelers checks, part two of the $15,750 loot taken from the bank, were cashed on Monday and Tuesday in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago Illinois by a man wearing a gray topcoat.
The United States government charges James P. Taylor, 30, a Detroit ex convict, with being the man in each of those instances.
Taylor pleaded not guilty when arraigned in federal court last week on grand jury charges of murder, theft, forgery, and interstate transportation of stolen travelers checks.
Judge Gunnar Nordbye granted defense counsel, Irving Nemerov two weeks to file motions contesting the indictment.
The judge also granted Nemerov’s request for an assistant defense attorney, appointing Walter E.Riordan to the job. Neither one of the defense attorneys will receive any compensation for acting as Taylor’s legal consul.
Meanwhile United States Attorney George E. MacKinnon, who is personally taking charge of the prosecution, has said that the government is ready with its case.
Federal Bureau of investigation office says have questioned local witnesses twice since the federal grand jury handed down its indictment against Taylor two weeks ago.
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