Evening star., 1934-09-21

transaction took place over the wall
of st. Raymond's cemetery. the Bronx,
on the night of April 2, 1892. More
over, the ransom notes apparently
were written by a person of Teutonic
background.
Within a day or so another $40
gold certificate bearing the recorded
serial number of the Lindbergh ran
som money came to the Federal Re
serve Bank in New York. The next
day a third one appeared, and others
arrived, one by one, until approxi-
mately a dozen had been received
within a period Of little more than
two weeks. Each time the bank noti-
fed Justice authorities. who, IN turn,
shared stheir information with New
York City and Jersey State police
under a cooperative agreement.
= Special Patrol Mobilised.
A special patrol. consisting Of Jus
tice agents, New York City police and
Jersey State police officers, was mo-
bilized and sent with great secrecy
into the Bronx. A number OF the
bills were traced back to obscure
cigar stores, vegetable markets and
other small shops scattered over .
rather wide area in the Bronx.
Owners and attendants Of these
stores were questioned palnStakingly
and discreetly and from several of
them the investigators received iden-
tical descriptions of the man with
the sandy hair and German accent"
In most instances the shopkeepers re-
called the man because they had re-
sented his action in offering q $40
bill in payment for such minor items
as a head Of cabbage or a single
cigar.
From these merchants was OBJ
tanned a reasonably accurate descrip-
ton of the man. He was OF about
average height little under six
feet-he had hollow blue-gray eyes,
he wore a gray suit that needed
pressing and he had certain other
characteristics-in addition to the
reddish hair and foreign accent.
Streets Are Watched.
The agents and police, with this de-
scription indelibly in their minds,
roamed through the streets of the
Bronx day after day-disguised va
riously as statesmen, street loiterers,
ordinary motorists and the like. They
must have let their quarry slip
through their Gordon on several occa-
sions. for they found that additional
bills came in from shops on streets
they had patrolled.
Shops and gasoline filling stations
were canvassed and proprietors were
asked to be on the alert for gold
certificates and in the event the Gus
toner was q motorist, to note down
on each such bill the tag numbers
of the car used. No mention, Of
course, was made of the Lindbergh
case, the investigators permitting the
proprietors to believe they were trying
to trace the perpetrators of the recent
$4O0, 900 hold-up in New York City.
On Monday of this week bank au-
thorities again advised Justice agents
of receipt of a gold certificate bear
ing a "hot" serial number and
penciled tag number. Curiously. an
examination Of this note and of
all the other certificates recently
turned in disclosed the numbers
ran in orderly sequence. Appar-
emily the mysterious customer was
peeling the bills from package ar
ranged by serial number.
The latest certificate, 1t was learned,
had been turned in by the operator
of a garage in making a regular de-
poSit. The garage man was inter-
viewed and he recalled instantly how
he came into possession of it.
Tells of Receiving Bill.
"I remember the man who gave
it to me-" he said, because I remarked
to him at the time that he had given
me gold note. The man said: Yes,
and I've got hundred more just like
it. I thought that was funny, and
as he was driving away, I took his
license number and jotted 1t on the
bill"
The garage operator, under further
questioning, identified his customer as
the sandy-haired German. He said
the man had bought small amount
of gasoline for Q sedan of ancient
manufacture.
The mans description of the car
fitted closely that of an automobile
seen by witnesses in the vicinity Of
Hopewell about the time Of the Lind
bergh kidnapping.
With the ,all-important tag clue in
hand, the Lindbergh squad checked
traffic department records and learned
that the car was listed in the name of
Hauptmann. at q certain address In
the Bronx. The house was placed
under surveillance Wednesday night