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interrupted time after time by thu
prosecution and defense.
II object to what he said at thai
time" Fisher would thunder.
Now, Just don't tell us what you
said. but only what you did," Wilent2
gently cautioned.
Condor is almost old enough to be
Wilentz's grandfather.
Condor taught boys" of Wilentz's
present age about the time the attor-
ney general was born.
The prosecutor handled the vener-
able witness with the patience he
might employ with child.
Condor was difficult student. WI
lentZ was tireless, kindly teacher.
Condor would grin sheepishly after
Condor at length told how he and
Reich finally got to Woodlawn Gene
terry.
Il got out of the car and went over
to the space in front of the gates.
took out the letter and read it again.
What happened?"
Returned Again to Car.
Nothing for a while" said the doc
tor, noting that man walked down
the street in the meanwhile.
He went back to the car for a few
minutes.
Then the kidnaper signaled him. he
said
Il saw handkerchief being waved. u
Condor described the first time he
met the ransom collector.
Who is the man who spoke to you
between the gates of the cemetery?'
Wilentz asked.
John
And who is John?"
Bruno Richard Hauptmann."
Condor said: The man was inside
the cemetery gate"
O. And then what happened?
A. Well, he kept waving the hand
kerchief through the bars of the gate.
@. Then?
A. Then I went and said, II know
you"
Alarmed by a rustic in the ceme-
terry. John quickly scaled the cemetery
fence, turner fashion," Condor re-
lated.
John ran, saying cops" we're there,
he added.
Called ".ohn" Cowardly.
AS John" fled into Van Cortlandt
Park, Jafsie dramatically continued:
Il aid, Hey come back here. Don't
be cowardly. Here I am a poor school
teacher and you're leaving me here to
be drilled"
Jafsie related how he caught up with
John and sat down with him on a
park bench.
Condor described the cemetery
scene dramatically.
He told me, It's too dangerous
It's 20 yeas or burn.
Then he asked me, Would I burn II
the baby were dead?'
II told him not if he hadn't killed
the baby and if he would tell all
about it"
Condor said he himself took the
safety pins from the baby.s bed with
as you might say, French leave"
He said he had them when he met
"John" in the cemetery.
I'm only the go-between,' he told
me-" Condor said.
Condor recounted how he promised
to help John all possible If he CO.
operated, but if you fail me, III
follow you to Australia"
Baby's Return Promised.
awe won't. You will get that
baby and put it in its mothers arms.
Condor told how he besought John
to quit the gang he said he repre-
sented, but John said the leader
would smack him down"
Are you Germanr Condor said
he asked him and John" replied,
mo, a Scandinavian
John also told him that night the
abduction had been prepared a year
already" but was adamant when
Jafsie pleaded to be taken to the
baby. the witness continued.
You have nothing to be afraid Of.
I've been square all my life and I'm
square now.
III go as a hostage to the man
who has the baby. I have three toys
belonging to the baby.
Il couldn't see the child" Condor
continued to relate.
He said they'd drill him.
II said, Don't be afraid. Do what
you think is right. Do it for your
mothers sake"
Asked to See Baby.
Condor said he urged the ransom
collector to take him to the baby.
That was all I wanted" he declared,
''to take that baby back to its mothers
arms"
He said they'd flash light from a
boat" Condor went on. And I said
Col. Lindbergh would go anywhere in
q plane to recover his little child"
Condor continued, he said he'd
send me the baby's sleeping suit"
is this it?"
Wilentz handed him an exhibit.
That is the baby's sleeping suit I
received. Condor said.
Condor said the cemetery conversa-
tion lasted an hour and 10 or is
minutes.
The fantastic conference that cold
night in Van Cortlandt Park eventual
ly broke up, after John promised to
send him the sleeping suit.
Court recessed for 10 minutes at
1880, e. S. T., with the Bronx edu-
Gator still on direct examination.
Condor left court during the recess,
but he was back on the stand, genial
and smiling, when the session re-
sumed.
The spectator jam seemed to have