Evening star., 1934-09-23
Convict Claims
He Wrote of
KidnapPlan.
AGENTS PROBE
FISCH CLUES
PAYMENT of Ran
som Bills for Trip
Investig gated.

(copyrisht, 1924, by the Associated Press)
NEW YORK, September 22.-Col
Charles A. Lindbergh will hurry East
to lend his aid against Bruno Richard
Hauptmann. the alien ex convict
linked by chain of discriminating
evidence to the kidnap-killing of the
flyers first son.
Lindbergh telephoned this word
from the Pacific Coast to H. Norman
Schwarzkopf. superintendent of the
New Jersey State police.
Dramatically. it came in the same
afternoon with the spectacular state
ment of an Ohio convict that Haupt-
mann wrote him before the abduction
in a code letter. of a plan to kidnap
the Lindberghs firSt-bOrn and the dis
closure by District Attorney Samuel
Foley of the Bronx that every one OF
the ransom notes had been positively
identified by experts as the writing OF
Hauptmann.
Col. Schwarzkopf hurried to the
Bronx from New Jersey after his mes
sage from Lindbergh and conferred
with Foley.
Plane Made Ready.
At Santa Monica, Calf. the air
plane in which Col. and Mrs.~Lind-
bergh few westward last week was
taken from a hangar and refueled
In Los Angeles, it was expected that
Col and Mrs. Lindbergh would take
of by plane tomorrow. 1t was not
known whether they would leave in a
T. w. A liner or proceed in his bor-
rowed monocoupe to Oklahoma. there
to pick up his own plane and continue
to New York;
The district attorney announced
Lindbergh would testify before the
grand jury wednesday when evidence
is presented to substantiate the charges
that Hauptmann extorted the $4,000
ransom paid fruitleSsly for the Lind
bergh baby.
alright" Case.
I'VE have" Foley declared. "an air.
tight extortion case against Haupt-
mann"
1t was presumed. too, that Lind
bergh would give his fullest aid to
clearing up other phases of the case.
Department of Justice agents eX-
pressed keen interest in the statement
of George Paullin. inmate of the Ohio
State Prison in Columbus. who gave
the warden. Preston Thomas, the cod
ed letter which contained this infor-
nation:
will kidnap Indy baby. Hope
for me-
In relating the convict's story, the
warden said Paullin volunteered the
information soon after the kidnapping,
on March l, 1882, in the hope of saw
ing the baby; that Paullin knew
Hauptmann at Perth AmbOy. N. j.;
that they were both in the same gang
of pickpockets and petty racketeers.
The warden said he. a guard and
Paullin went to HopeWell to tell New
Jersey authorities about the convict S
letter but that the officials did not
appear much interested.
While the letter Paullin said Haupt-
mann wrote him, at the time it was
seen by the warden, had no signature
on it, the convict declared he had
torn off the signature.
This was corroborated by the war
den's daughter Miss Amanda Thomas,
the prison censor, who said she re-
membered the signature of Bruno
and also remembered seeing the name
"Hauptmann" on letters sent to
Paullin.
With interest shown in this de-
velopment by Federal agents, it was
learned that Paullin may be brought
East to confront Hauptmann.
District Attorney Foley. however,
paid little note of the convict's story.
Its a bust" he said.
In Trenton, Maj. Charles H. Schoef-
fel. assistant superintendent of the
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