The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-21
Lindbergh Kidnap
 Suspect Denies 1t
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der blazing lights while being questioned. He spoke with a heavy accent.
 Q How long have you been in this country? Al been here IS years.
 Q-How did you come over- A l came as a stowaway, getting on the boat at Bremerhaven.
 Hauptmann told police he had made his home in New York, liv- ing first at 979S Amsterdam ave- nue, moving in 1924 to West ITO street. He lived there a year un- til he became married, when he moved to Park avenue at 121st street.
 In 1926, he said, he moved to Needham avenue in the Bronx, live ing there four years. Then to his present home.
 Q-Have you been living on this money since? A-Yes.
 Q-What did you do with the money? Al dug a hole in the ground and put some money in the garage wall three weeks ago.
 Q-How much did you have? :? A-The man left me $14,000.
 Q-What do you do with your money? Al play Wall Street.
 Q-How did you make out? A Sometimes successful, sometimes losing. I'm about even.
 Since 1880, Hauptmann said, he had made about $10,000 dealing in furs for a friend. He kept no books of his transactions.
 Before Dr CondoH paid he re- ceived the sleeping suit which the Lindbergh baby wore the night he was stolen. His communications were signed by the same compli- cated geometic symbol that signed the original ransom note.
 Handwriting Identified
 Next link in the chain was the identification of Hauptmann's handwriting as- that of the orig inal ransom note, Hauptmann is a German, given, even in conversa- tion to use of German idioms. The original note was so worded that experts were certain Sit had been written either by 8 German or a person with a German education.
 Dr Condon picked Hauptmann out from a lineup of 10 men. He felt he was the John" with whom he held a moonlight conference in a park a week before the ransom was paid,, but felt he should not make positive identification.
 John" gave a taxi-driver $1 to deliver note to Dr Condon while he was negotiating for the ransom. The taxi-driyer identified Haupt- mann as John.
 Various merchants who had re- ceived $5 and S10 bills from the ransom money during the last year identified him as the passer.
 Hauptmann is an expert carpen- ter. He admitted he had once worked in the neighborhood of
 Ladder Built By Expert
 The ladder which the kidnaper propped against the wall of the Lindbergh Hopewell home to gain excess to the baby's room, was constructed by an expert carpen- ter from lumber that bore Q pe- culiar mark. Police definitely as- certained that Hauptmann had ex- cess to a lumber yard which had lumber of q peculiar mark similar to the mark on the lumber in the ladder.
 Hauptmann had a criminal re- cord in Germany where he served three years in prison for theft af- ter the war. He slowed away on Q ship bound for America II years ago to avoid arrest for parole vio- lation and has been in this coun- try illegally since then.
 Hauptmann up until the time of the Kidnapping worked at odd car- pentry jobs. complaining to neigh bors of hard times.
 After the Kidnapping, he stopped working altogether and told neigh bors there was no point in work ing when one could live we'll with out working. He talked about Wall street. He always had money. main tained a car, and sent his Wife to Germany for the summer in 1882.
 WithstO0d Ordeal
 Hauptmann stolidly withstood the ardeal of continuous question ing without sleep and with only brief interludes for rest. He kept his blue eyes focused in his lap for the most part, but occasion ally lifted his head to say "yes" or mo" to a question.
 At the Greenwich street police station he angrily disputed with shopkeepers who identified him as the man who gave them currency from the Lindbergh ransom.
 At the Bronx County courthouse, where he was taken later, he did- mt say a word when witnesses pointed him out. He sat on a wooden bench throughout the night. fianked by detectives.
 His arrest eliminated the great est manhunt in history that began a few hours after Nurse Betty Cow entered the Hopeweli Nursery and found her charge missing.
 Never for a moment during all of the two and a half years since the tragic March, April, and May of 1892 when Colonel Lindbergh sought by every means. even to soliciting the aid of the under world, to ransom the baby the kidnaper insisted was alive and well. had the search relaxed.
 FruitIess Clues
 The United States Department of Justice, the New Jersey State Police, and the New York City Po- lice, ran down thousands of fruit less clues. finally centering all at. teption on tracing the $6, S10 and SEQ bills that made up the ran- some money. Dozens of these bills were traced without result, but finally one turned up that led to their man.
 J. Edgar Hoover. chief of the bureau of criminal investigation or the department of justice. II. Nor man schwartxkopf, superintendent of the New Jersey state police. and New York City Police Commission CT John F. 'oRyan, made 1t clear to-day that they thought the Lfnd- bergh crime practically solved.
 o'Ryan issued Q formal state- ment revealing that 26 New York City detectives. 1g department of Justice agents. and 90 members Of tbs New Jersey state police had worked on the ease exclusively for months.
 s'ise Accussns niil
 Lest Friday. Hauptmann drove Into . AfiIns station is Harlem, bought Age gAllene of gasoline and esnds6 q gto sold essfiaeates All