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Post by Michael on Dec 12, 2008 13:35:46 GMT -5
Hopewell, N.J. May 22, 1932 Dear Mr. Carson:
I fear I shall not be able to give you a satisfactory answer to your inquiry. The opinions expressed from day to day by local people, would fill a book but the book would not be worth reading.
I never heard the name you mention and casual inquiries have failed to secure any information. Zion, three or four miles from us has a post office, local store, stone church, nearly a hundred years old and a few houses scattered in the hills and timber with enough children to start a flourishing colony but the colony must be there for those people like most others in this region never move.
Local carpenters and painters who saw the famous ladder, say they would not climb it and they do not believe any man carried a child down it, a rough hills road that winds around huge boulders and over many of them, leads from Zion to the Lindbergh place. We often drive it because my wife enjoys the picturesque country, but when we get out I often wonder if any car will ever stand it again.
The place where the child was found is about a mile from us the way the planes go, but three miles the way a car goes. The place is not in the mountains where the home is, but in the valley near a paved highway from Hopewell to Princeton.
It is the general opinion here that the kidnapers had local help but this may be wrong as Curtis and Jafsie.
The village is still crowded with curious people especially on Saturday and Sunday when two or three planes take passengers over the home and the grave, flying over us. With regards to yourself and family, I am
Sincerely,
H. E. Blackmar
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2019 8:57:03 GMT -5
Michael, this is an interesting letter! Do you know who Mr. Carson is? I find the mention of that rough hills road especially attention grabbing. Mr. Blackmar lived on Provinceline Road in 1932. Could this rough road be the same road that David Moore and son said was used by Lindbergh?
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Post by stella7 on Jul 11, 2019 19:35:19 GMT -5
Hollow Rd at Rt 518 had a direction sign for Zion and for many years there was also a sign for Highfields at that intersection. The sign was put there and maintained by a local Boy Scout troop. The boulders described were left by the last ice age that reached to the northern parts of Princeton.
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Post by Michael on Jul 13, 2019 7:02:54 GMT -5
Michael, this is an interesting letter! Do you know who Mr. Carson is? I find the mention of that rough hills road especially attention grabbing. Mr. Blackmar lived on Provinceline Road in 1932. Could this rough road be the same road that David Moore and son said was used by Lindbergh? You threw me a curve ball Amy. I couldn't even remember the letter until I slept on it. At first I thought it might have referred to Frank Carson, the Assistant Managing Editor of the Daily News. Like many others in the press he was involved in getting stories from the locals. Blackmar was definitely a local and his name is in the NJSP grid investigations. However, this letter was originally written to Robert Carson of the Iowa State Chamber of Commerce. He then sent a copy to Hoover who in turn forwarded a copy to Schwarzkopf.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2019 8:08:44 GMT -5
Blackmar was definitely a local and his name is in the NJSP grid investigations. However, this letter was originally written to Robert Carson of the Iowa State Chamber of Commerce. He then sent a copy to Hoover who in turn forwarded a copy to Schwarzkopf. Thanks for informing me who Carson was. The Iowa connection makes sense since Harry Blackmar was from Iowa. What a round about way for Schwarzkopf to learn this bit of information! I did see Blackmar listed in the Section 6 house search report. I also had this letter in my Hopewell house file so I made the connection that way and thought I would ask about it. There are also a number of Mount Rose house searches for that same section. Blackmar would eventually move to Bucks County PA, Solebury area, where he is buried.
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Post by Michael on Jul 14, 2019 7:27:49 GMT -5
[Thanks for informing me who Carson was. The Iowa connection makes sense since Harry Blackmar was from Iowa. What a round about way for Schwarzkopf to learn this bit of information! I did see Blackmar listed in the Section 6 house search report. I also had this letter in my Hopewell house file so I made the connection that way and thought I would ask about it. There are also a number of Mount Rose house searches for that same section. Blackmar would eventually move to Bucks County PA, Solebury area, where he is buried. Aside from those here who know the area well (e.g. Stella, Lurp, etc.) there is a Map that Margaret put together that I've found to be very helpful. There's a copy at the Archives and the last I saw it was on top of the cabinet that contains the "L" files. You might already know about it but I wanted to mention it just in case.
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