Evening star., 1934-09-23
HAUPTMANN FELL
INTO GRAF TRAP
Georgetown U. Law Gradu-
ate Headed Lindbergh
Investigators.
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special corps of picked agents, Sc
cretly designated as the "Lindbergh
squad The fact that such a squad
had been formed never was divulged
| publicly by the department. AS a
matter of fact. its personnel and their
movements were known only to
Director Hoover and a small group
| of executive assistants.
Hesdeded by wyer-Detectiye.
Hoover placed at the head of this
squad Special Agent Sisk. a small
=, framed, sharp-eyed young lawyerde-
tective, who was graduated from
Georgetown University Law School in
1929. Sisk is quiet, hard-working
agent with a penchant for detail.
During Summer vacation from Law
School be worked in the Post Office
Department here. Sisk and his staff
| operated out of division headquarters
! here, reporting direct to Hoover. The
Presidents order sent Sisk and his
men onto what must have seemed at
the outset hopeless, cold trail.
Much work had been done on the
case previously by a number of other
| Federal, State and local agencies. BY
| presidential order, all the records of
the kidnapping inquiries made by the
| Internal Revenue Bureaus Intelli-
gence Unit were turned over to the
Department of Justice. Since the
Lindbergh kidnapping had occurred
prior to passage of the Federal
| kidnapping act, primary Jurisdiction
| remained in the New Jersey State
| police. A cooperative working agree
ment was adopted among the Federal
agents and police
| The first step of the Justice men
was to make a thorough study of all
| available data in the case-official
reports. thousands Of letters from anna
| teur detectives, interested citizens and
the inevitable cranks, and all known
clues, whether discarded by other
agencies or not. All this material was
classified. filed and indexed with about
/ $4,000 reference cards.
! Notes Are Studied.
With this somewhat bewildering
! picture Of the amazing crime in
mind, handwriting identification eX-
perts in the divisions criminology
| laboratory here begin a meticulouS.
/ microscopic study, behind locked
i doors. of all the ransom notes re-
ceived by Col. Lindbergh. Special at
tention was given to the strange
symbol of interlocking circles, pierced
by three holes. which was affixed to
| each letter.
! 1t was the unanimous opinion Of all
the experts that the l3 notes received
after the kidnapping during the
s50,000 ransom negotiations through
| DR.. John F. Condor were written by
| the person who scribbled the inco-
herent note found on the window sill
of the baby's nursery. Not only was
| the writing the same, they asserted,
! but the three holes found in each of
| the letters had been punctured
J simultaneously by superimposing the
sheets of paper on one another.
| Find the man who wrote the
subsequent ransom notes and received
! the $50 900 from DR.. Condon," they
agreed. and you will find the man
who pinned the ransom note to the
window sill the night Of the abduc-
tion, or who had it pinned there by
an accomplice."
Declared Author German.
The chiroeraphic authorities and
other Investigations, moreover, agreed
that the author of the notes was OF
German nationality. but had spent
some time in America There were
characteristically Teutonic twists TO
the ''k' and "t and other let
ters: there were word arrangements
and phrases peculiar to the Ger
man language and there was the
German word gut" for good. used
in the written assurance that the
baby was in good care" The writer
could not have been a stranger to
New York or New England, for he
gave accurate street directions TO Dr.
Condor and. in sending Lindbergh on
his futile flight to the existent
boat, Nelly, evidenced familiarity with
the Martha's Vineyard section.
MicroscopiSts and other experts not
long ago brought TO the laboratory ap-
proximately $4,000 of the Lindbergh
ransom money heretofore recovered.
They examined each bill under power
full glasses in the hope of finding
some overlooked clue. An interesting
discovery which may have significance.
in the light of the fact that Haupt-
mann's caches of ransom bills were
hidden in his garage. was that many
of the bills which turned up sporadic
ally over a 2l2-year period had a
faint pungent odor.
Pinned Hope in Ransom Money.
From the outset Director Hoover
and his men were convinced that the
most valuable of all clues to the Lind
bergh kidnaper-the one that held
the most promise of leading to his
capture-was the ransom money.
This was in fives, tens and twenty dol
lar bills, many of the latter denomina-
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