The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-22

Police, however, found lew
concrete facts aiding the the
ory that Hauptmann had con-
federates.
Developments included:
/. A theory advanced by Assistant
Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan
that a woman aided Hauptmann be
cause no man would risk moving
a baby through that countryside
without a woman 10 aid him"
?. A deposit slip filled out when
$3.50 of the ransom gold backs
we're turned in for silver certificates
was checked to determine whether
Hauptmann or a confederate turned
in the money. A mysterious suicide
apparently not connected with the
Iindbergh case-was on the record
in connection with investigation OF
the deposit slip.
3. Isadore Fische, who died in
Germany and who was named by
Hauptmann as the man who gave
him the sI3.75O recovered ransom
money, at one time borrowed $4,000
from an unidentified woman. Fische
also had borrowed $500 from
Hauptmann in 1892. records showed,
apparently blasting Hauptmann's
claim that Fische left him the
money.
Several Women Questioned
Whether the woman from whom
Fische borrowed the $4,000 had any
connection with the Lindbergh ran
som money was not disclosed by po-
lice.
At the Office of Samuel j. Foley,
United States attorney for Bronx
county. it was said that several
women were questioned yesterday
in the Hauptmann investigation
II was emphasized. however, that
these women were merely witnesses,
that none Of them were suspected
Of being connected with the Lind
brgh case in any way and mat
Foley's office does not expect to con-
meet any woman with the case. None
is under arrest or detained at pres
ent. officials said.
Dozens Of department Of justice
agents and New York City detec-
tives were assigned to uncover every
detail Of Hauptmann's life imme-
diately preceding March l, 1887
when the baby was stolen from the
then Lindbergh home in HopeWell,
N J.. and of the two and one-half
years following. No law enforce
ment authority involved had the
least doubt but that Hauptmann was
the man sought for the most revolt
ing crime Of the century.
Hauptmann Gets Sleep
New Jersey withheld its formal
request for extraditiOn pending
completion of an alright case which
authorities thought would be ready
by Monday or Tuesday. John Doe
indictments. charging murder and
kidnapping. pend in Hunterdon and
Mercer counties. New Jersey.
So weary he could hardly stay on
his feet. Hauptmann was lodged IN
the Bronx county jail for his first
extended sleep since he was arrested
wednesday. Following a usual but
little publicized police method. he
had been questioned almost con-
tinuouSly and without sleep for
more than fifty hours. The ordi-
nary criminal would have broken
under the strain
However. German army machine
gunner. ex-German convict. Haupt-
mann demonstrated time and time
again that he was far above the or
binary in both stamina and intelli-
gence. His explanation Of his pos
session OF sIS.75O Of the $4,000
Colonel Lindbergh paid out for the
safe return Of a baby that had been
murdered. was thoroughly unbeliev-
able. police said.
In Washington. federal authorities
limited that operatives sought 10
connect Hauptmann with the Lind
bergh household. believing incon-
teSable proof that he had contacts
with any Of the servants al Hope
well or az the home OF Mrs. Dwight
n Morrow. Mrs. Lindbergh'S moth
er. az Englewood n. J.. would so a
long way toward convincing a jury
that Hauptmann engineered and
perpetrated the crime Single-handed.
In New York. detectives already
had all but proven the falSity OF
Hauptmann's abb which in brief
was that a man named ISiGore
Fsche left the Sl3.500 Of Lindbergh
money in his keeping in 1888 and
returned 70 Germany. where he died
last December.
They had sscertained that Haupt-
mann began specializing in the stock
market or a scale impossible 10 an
unemployed, impoverished carpenter
IN April. 1882. Immediately after the
ransom vas paid and before Colonel
Linbergh knew his baby had been
murdered
II was understood that detectives