The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
GERMAN CONVICT SLEW AVIAT0R'S
BABY. DECLARE FEDERAL OFFICIALS:
LONE WOLF OF CRIME,' THEY SAY
Detectives Move Slowly but
ReIentIeSSIy in Effort
to Solve Case.
SUSPECT DENIES GUILT
Received Money From
Friend, Wall Street In
vestments, He Claims.

veStmentS, He Claims.
restaurant by detectives for dinner.
The crowd screamed insults at
her and several enraged voices
screamed:
Stone herl Hang herr
Hauptmann was spirited out the
back way. Authorities had no fear
of mob violence, but took every pos
sible precaution.
The circumstantial case against
Hauptmann was generally consid-
cred strong.
Strongest was possession OF the
ransom money and his identification
as the man who has been passing
it S. and $40 at time for months.
Authorities believe the ransom DR..
Condor took to ST. Raymond ceme-
terry was paid to the actual kidnaper
and not to an interloper.
Picked From Lineup
Before DR.. Condor paid, he re-
ceived the sleeping suit which the
Lindbergh baby wore the night he
was stolen. His communications
we're signed by the same complicated
geometic symbol that signed the
original ransom note.
Next link in the chain was the
identification of Hauptmann's hand
writing as that of the original ram
som note. Hauptmann is a German,
given, even in conversation, to use
of German idior1ls. The original
note was so worded that experts
were certain it had been written
either by German or person with
German education.
DR.. Condor picked Hauptmann
out from a lineup of ten men. He
felt he was the John" with whom
he held a moonlight conference in
park a week before the ransom
was paid, but felt he should not
make a positive Identification.
John" gave taxi driver 81 to
deliver a note to DR.. Condor while
he was negotiating for the ransom.
The taxi driver identified Haupt-
mann as John.
Various merchants who had re-
ceived IS and $40 bills from the
ransom money during the last year,
identified him as the passer.
Hauptmann is an expert carpent-
er. He admitted he had once
worked in the neighborhood OF
Hopewell N. j.
Ladder Is Clew
Tho 1addn~ tryk
propped against the wall of the
Lindbergh home to gain excess to
the baby's room was constructed by
an expert carpenter from lumber
that bore a peculiar mark Police
definitely ascertained that Haupt-
mann had excess to a lumber yard
which had lumber of peculiar
mark similar to the mark on the
lumber in the ladder.
Hauptmann had criminal record
in Germany. where he served three
years in prison for theft after the
war. He slowed away on a ship
bound for America eleven years ago
to avoid arrest for parole violation
and has been in this country ille-
gally since then.
Hauptmann up until the time of
the kidnapping worked at odd car
penter jobs, complaining to neigh
bors of hard times.
After the kidnapping. he stopped
working altogether and told neigh
oors there was no point in working
When one could live we'll without
working. He talked about Wall
Street. He always had money. main
Eained a car. and sent his wife TO
Germany for the summer in 1882.
Hauptmann stolidly withstood the
ordeal Of continuous questioning
without sleep and with only brief
interludes for rest. He kept his blue
eyes focused in his lap for the
most part, but occasionally lifted
his head to say yes" or no" to a
question
Argues With Identifers
At the Greenwich street police
station he angrily disputed with
shopkeepers who identified him as
the man who gave them currency
@NS@-A VIZ NsA4AOCA I'll IdlloOIIl.
AT the Bronx county courthouse.
where he was taken later. he didn't
say word when witnesses pointed
him out. He sat on a wooden bench
throughout the night, fanked by
detectives.
His arrest eliminated the great
est manhunt in history that began
few hours after nurse Betty Cow
entered the Hopewel! nursery and
found her charge missing.
Never for a moment during all of
the two and half years since the
tragic March, April and May. 1882.
when Colonel Lindbergh sought by
every means. even to soliciting the
aid Of the underworld, TO ransom
the baby the kdnaper insisted was
alive and we'll. had the search re-
Taxed.
The United States Department Of
Justice, the New Jersey state police.
and the New York City police ran
down thousands of fruitless clews,
finally centering all attention on
tracing the IS. SO and $40 bills that
made up the ransom money. Dozens
Of these bills were traced without
result. but finally one turned up