Evening star., 1934-09-21
SYMBOL ON NOTES
ACCUSES WRITER
Reveal Man Who Wrote
Ransom Letter Was
Actual Kidnaper.
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for information leading him to the
kidnapers.
In the meantime, literally thou
sands of letters had poured into the
Lindbergh home-many of them from
anonymous persons claiming to have
knowledge of the kidnapers or to be
the kidnapers themselves. None Of
these letters had the vital symbol
Identification, and all were discarded
eventually.
Condon Gets Letter.
Within a few hours Of appearance
on the street of the Condor an
nouncement in the Bronx Home News
there was mailed to Condor from a
New York City station the following
note:
Dear Sir. II you are willing to
act as 60 between in Lindbergh CAGE
please follow strictly instructions.
Handel inclosed letter personally to
Mr. Lndbergh. 1t will explain every
thing don't tell anyone about it es
sure we find out the Press or Police
is notifyd everything are cansell and
it will be further delay. After you
| gett the Money from Mr.. Lindbergh
put these 3 words in the New York
American.
Mony is redy
After that we will give you fur
| tier instructions. Don't be afraid
we are not out fore your 1000s keep
1t. Only act strictly. Be at home
every night between 6-l2 by this
time you will hear from U.s."
] DR.. Condor Immediately took the
letter to Hopewell and when Lind
bergh saw that it bore the correct
symbol with the three holes. he lost
| no time in authorizing DR.. Condor
to conduct negotiations.
In the meantime, before the kid
l naper saw Condon's advertisement in
the Bronx paper, he had mailed, on
March 4, letter to Col Lindbergh
direct. This one. too. bore the au-
/ thentic signature.
Lindbergh Answers Kidnaper.
On March 8 and 8 Lndbergh In
| serted the following advertisement.
in accordance with instructions con-
tanned in the note inclosed In the
letter to Condor:
Letter received at new address
Will follow your instructions. I also
| received letter mailed to me March
4. and was ready since then. Please
hurry on account of mother Address
me to the address you mention in
your letter. Father"
This was Lindbergh's authorization
for the kidnaper to deal with DR.. Con-
don at the new address, viz, Con-
don's home in the Bronx.
On March IL there appeared in the
New York American Condon's ad:
Money is ready-Jafsie."
On the dark night of March II, fol-
lowing closely directions given in his
note from the kidnaper, DR.. Condor
walked to hot dog stand in the
Bronx and lifted a specified stone on
the ground nearby. Under the stone
was another note. with proper sigma
ture, directing Condor to walk alone to
Woodlawn Cemetery, not far away.
Meets John" Z
Here he held his first rendezvous
with the man Jafsie now has iden-
titled as Hauptmann. The interview
lasted for more than an hour, and was
interrupted at the outset by the ap-
pearance of a cemetery guard, who
sent the self-styled John" scurrying
into the shadows, with Condor after
him. During this talk Condor in
| duced John to agree to send Lind
bergh some definite token as proof he
had the baby-a snapshot, q piece of
clothing that could not be mistaken,
i f1ngerprints or the like.
John" promised to deliver a token
only after considerable reluctance. He
said he would get in touch with
Condor the next day, Sunday.
March 13. Nothing was heard from
John" by late Sunday night. and
Condor impatiently inserted an ad ::
| Come and see uS-JafSie"
On Tuesday, March Is, a package,
bearing a Brooklyn postmark.. arrived
at the Condor home. It contained a
heart-rending bit Of cloth, cut from
| an infants sleeping suit. Condor
telephoned Hopewell and Lindbergh
drove hurriedly to Condon's home in
| the Bronx. He was not absolutely
| certain the cloth was from his sons
suit and took it back to Hopewell at
once.
betty Cow POSITIVE.
Betty Cow identified the token posi-
lively as having been cut from the
Lindbergh baby's sleeping suit.
How can you be sure?" she was
asked.
See those stitches right there?" she
said, indicating with her finger. II
sewed those there myself just recently.
| There is no doubt about It'll"
| Department of Justice agents played
a tense, grim game of hide-andseek
with Hautpmann in the Bronx area
Of New York City for almost three
weeks before they caught up with
him, with the aid Of police.
| Hauptmann's carelessness in spend
ing approximately a dozen $40 gold
certificates from his hoard of Lind
bergh ransom money, and the alert
ness of a garage proprietor in noting
the tag numbers of Hauptmann's aged
sedan after he had bought gasoline
with one of the banned
bills, led to his undoing.
Inside Story Revealed.
An authentic inside story of events
leading up to the sensational capture
of the man who, Justice officials be-
lieve, engineered the worlds most no
torious kidnapping has been obtained
by The Star from authoritative official
| sources.
About three weeks ago a small shop
keeper in the Bronx section turned in
to his bank $40 gold certificate, in
compliance with the Governments de-
mand for return to the Treasury of
currency of this type. The bank turned
the bill into the Federal Reserve Bank,
where officials, in accordance with a
practice of many months, checked it
against the serial numbers of the
Lindbergh ransom money.
Notified by Federal Reserve authori-
ties that the certificate was part of
the ransom fund. agents of the special
Lindbergh squad of the Justice De-
partment's division of investigation
obtained cooperation of police-be-
cause of the non-Federal status of the
Lindbergh case-and questioned the
shopkeeper.