The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-18
Three Rambling
 Confessions Given
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accent. Sam was "Sam Goldberg" or "Sam the Gas Man." further described as large Norwegian Jew. John was a Large, athletic
 Scandinavian" who spoke broken English. Both "Hilda" and "Inez" spoke with m accent, were "well
 formed" fairly well educated and
 both married Inez worked a radio sending and receiving station from Ford automobile which contact e,. the "phaptom ship" upon which
 Curtis said "Sam" approached
 him at the Norfolk Country club, March 9, and asked him to get In touch with Colonel Lindbergh. The
 Rev Fl. Dobson Peacock and Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage were called in by Curtis to facilitate getting in communication with Colonel Lindbergh. There were many mysterious contacts in New
 York city--at cafeteria on the west side--and at Newark. Once, Curtis said, he carried one of the negotiators In his motor car IS
 hours while trying to get in touch with Lindbergh. The man, Curtis confessed, had a note sealed with wax. and addressed to Lindbergh. Another time he met the group in
 Newark and they showed him the ransom money which Dr John F.. Condon had paid to kidnapers in
 q Bronx cemetery. He said he compared notes that they showed him with 6 newspaper clipping
 listing the serial numbers of the bills Colonel Lindbergh had paid out in his frantic efforts to reclaim his baby. The notes checked with the list, he said.
 At another time, he said. he went on board craft which the negotiators used.
 we had quite @ session." Curtis confession said. "in which John suggested that I was in their power and that they could do anything they wanted with me and told him that I was not afraid of them and from then on 1 sort of half way controlled the situation. l told them that I had in q locked box a whole record of this transac- ton and if they done anything to mo they would be worse off than they were before. To that they agreed"
 Then he related how he and his aides followed a charted course-- as given them by the negotlators of Block Island without finding the child. of a conference in New York city at which 1t was agreed to make a trip off the Virginia Capes and how he went on another boat and was shown more of the ransom money.
 He said he told them at con- ference that Colonel I.indbergh de- sired more information, to which one of the negotiators replied:
 "T'o hell with the colonel. If he don't believe you he can go to hell. What more does he want? We got his money
 Then Dean Peacock was sum moned to New York and came by the Ludington airlines and regis tered at the Park Central hotel under the name of Hill. Peacock. to 6 conference and the boat build CT added:
 "When the dean came back I think what he stated was that he went to meet this man at the Cum berland hotel and the man threat- ened and tried to cheat him out of money and I told him that he was fully protected and he came back and spent the night at the Prince George. This man was educated, q smooth talker, and seemed to bc one who had 6 great deal of au. thority and told him he wanted to go to Chicago and that he was go- ing to use some more money for plane and that h0 alone knew where the baby was and 1t was on q boat outside of Norfolk. The dean said hc threatened him by | keeping him there and the dean told him he was not going to keep | him there. The dean sale he ap- pear'ed to try to get some infor- nation from him."
 Curtis told of the trips out of in search of the "contact vesser and how many directions had come from the woman "Hilda" whom he had first met at q con. ference at Cape May. The woman with Captain Ken. meth Whiting at the naval base at he said, and lie tele. phoned her first at a Cape May number and later at q Freeport telephone number: A of the latter telephone shows 1t to be q reputable dancing academy where no one of the name of IiIlda is known. Further checks at Norfolk show Curtis did not make the telephone calls hc to have made to these numbers.
 Hiida often met him at the train, he said. and took him to the house where the conference was to be held Once she took him to gar age and showed him a baby crib | and said 1t was the one used in car rying the Lindbergh baby about.
 Colonel Lindbergh was skepti. cal of Curtis associations from the start, the Norfalk man said. and Morris Rosner---who answered the telephone by saying he was Colonel LIhdbersh's secretary--de. unfinished films of the baby showing various views. Cur tls said he passed this information to the group he dealt with.