The Washington times., 1932-03-16
TELLS EXCITING
STORY, WHICH
: POLICE DENY
Late CIeWs UnproduCtive As
Case Reveals No New
Possibilities
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CenClary, Wnen DOCh men were
confined there late in 1930-Fitz
gerald on pistol charge and
Gleason for alleged wife desertion
LevenSOn Unknown
Fitzgerald had been quoted by
detectives as saying he had once
discussed plans for the kidnapping
with Gleason. Fitzgerald was de
Scribed as a Chicago hoodlum be.
fore coming East.
Schwartzkopf's statement then
r touched upon "the Levenson an
gle" It read:
1--WE have no knowledge of
Abraham LevenSOn visiting the
Lindbergh estate. He has not
been in touch with the authOri-
ties and is not known at these
headquarters"
8 Levenson, described as Phila.
delphia suitcase manufacturer and
: friend Of Max WBoo-Boo'O Hoff,
had been reported to have had
information concerning the case
and to have made a visit to the
: Lindbergh home.
: Schwarzkopfs' statement then
took up the angle brought up by
Kenneth Schaeffer, taxi driver,
e whose story of suspicious incidents
{ caused interest in some quarters.
Regarding this phase, the bulle-
tin quoted the following statement
? by Schaeffer:
"At 7:45 p. m. on March 8
/ picked up three fares in
EastOn, Pa, who told me to
drive to Pennington, N. J.
When reached FlemingtOn
they told me to stop and the
two men on the rear seat got
out and walked back to a car
parked 100 feet back of us.
THREATENED BY FARE
"They got in this car and
then the man in the front seat
told me to drive ahead, and
the others followed. The man
In my cab told me to drive to
HOpewell, and when we ar
rived he told me to stop. The
other car pulled up, and my
fare got out, as did the two
men in the other car. -t
''The man who had ridden in
the cab then told me to deliver
. message to Colonel Lindbergh
or Mr.. Breckenridge Lind
bergh's attorney and not to
fail unless / wanted to suffer
the same thing that happened
to Lindbergh. He then handed
me q message and also gave
me a verbal message only,
namely: ... ....
"'Baby safe. Withdraw
police, March 8 and 10. Direct
+. COm m u n 10 a ito n Lindbergh
! phone, call Spitale from Long
acre. Important
"Then one Of the men took
out a gun and told me to drive
to the HopeweIl station and
look for the reporters and tell
them Tony Russo sent me. They
said not to follow them.
RUSSO KEYWORD
~ went to the station and
asked for the reporters and was
told they were in Febhardt'S.
I went there and met Stewart
Rogers "a reporter) and, when
/ told him Tony Russo sent me,
he said the word was a key
VOrd.
Rogers and two other men
ne to the Woodrow Will
tel in New Brunswick
me there. A man
N'Farrell IA private :.
a.. ssked me
what was a. message. When
refused, he TOLD me that he
would be able to get into
Colonel Lindbergh's home with
the message.
eve then went back to Hope
well. A man named Conroy
said it would be impossible to
get to the Lindbergh home, as
: Mr.. Breckinridge said that I
was there on the sixth, which
; i denied. Val OFarrell took
me to New York and tried to
get in touch with Lindbergh,
but could not. 1 stayed all
night in New York and came
!, back the next morning to Hope
{ well.
STORY NOT YER led
s ''WhiIe in HopewelI a. man
named Badge came to me and
said he would take me to the
Lindbergh home which he did.
! presented the note to Mr..
: Flannery Of the Jersey police"
Commenting on Schaefer's story,
:, Colonel Schwarzkopf's official
s'bulletin" merely stated:
Investigation has not proven
any fact of his story"
Reports that Mrs. Lindbergh
has been i'll were treated in the
statement in a single sentence:
: 1--WE do not know that DIR.
2 Vanneman, of ArincetOn, has
g treated Mrs. Lindhergh at any
time" .......
A second prisoner to be ques-
3ioned was John Vannerman,
temporarily released from PaSsaic
:; county Jail in connection with the
Llndbergh case. .....
Vannerman claimed he over
heard three men in a Yonkers
IN. " Speakeasy conspire the
kidnapping of the Lindbergh .-:fapt
two months ago.