The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-11
Wires Are Found Near Jury Room
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 these letters could have ben ar rested within 4S hours, if there had not been the stumbling around by state police. Now we come to the picture 0i calls a patriotic gentleman of the old school--Dr Condon.
 Now, General Wilentz, l don't share that opinion. ! 'Condon stands behind something in this case that is uhholy, and shall bear 1t out. T don't know Condon and don't know his associates. Here over in the Bronx is thit man close to City Island and tht waterfront.
 "IIe may have all the degrees ir the world~-That is no criterion. 'I don't know anything about Condon's background. did ask him why he was transferred from i one school to another but 1t wat objected to-" "Condon knew nothing of Red Johnson unless he had a connec- tion with him.
 And what's Condon's testi- mony?"
 Reielly read from the testimony where Condon had said he had gone Ito the aid of young man believe is innocent--Arthur John son."
 Condon had explained that he wanted to aid the underdog. Why should Condon come to the rescue of the only person they (the authorities) haven't brought back to testify, unless he knew him.
 Throughout his argument, Reilly referred to Henry (Red) Johnson as Arthur" Johnson, an obvious error.
 <"Condon wasn't worried about the other suspects-the Whatelys, Betty Cow and the others. "He said Ire visited every ship yard and had found out that Arr thur Johnson was not that kind of fellow.
 Building up defense for this man. this ailor. l. The associated Press, then Unit- ed Press, the International News, would have spread all over the world to find the kidnapers. But Condon puts his message in the Bronx Home News, small paper.
 T believe there was omething of the same signal that was passed between Betty Cow and Red Jol1n- son that night, in Dr Condon'S in- serting that advertisement in the Bronx Home News.
 But instantly after Dr Condon puts a notice in the Bronx Home News. there comes a reply from Brooklyn.
 I've never seen the March Sth ad in the paper. Doesn't that indicate, ladies and gentlemen, that somebody was waiting for a reply in the Bronx Home News. "This was prepared. This was ready and the alibi was the ad in the paper. Does he go to the po- lice? Docs he go to a detective No, he goes to restaurant. And he insists on talking to Col Lind. bergh. And he reads the letters tC Col Lindbergh. "So he goes down there and the letters keep coming in. And nobody ever sees any of the letters coming in.
 Always Condon alone, Condor alone, Condon alone.
 And then Betty Cow comes down here and blandly tells us that after thousands of police, photos. raphers and investigators, she is walking with her pal Mrs Whately over the place where these peopis have walked, she finds the baby's thtmbguard.
 Tt was lying in the mud and the rnin with never G bit of rust on it.
 "Where Is the second thumb guard? Why plant evidence in this case?
 Of the jurors only Verna Snyder No 5. appeared to be disinterested in the oratory. She kept her oyes lowered or occasionally let them rove over the audience.
 "Condon said that a. carpenter T don't just recall his name'-- made the ransom money box.
 "Hauptmann didn't make that box.
 "Then there was Johnny Per- rome, the taxi driver who said he had seen Hauptmann on Gun Hill road.
 q wish you could go to the Bronx and see that deserted road.
 There must be something to that fellow Perrone, too.
 "The note on April came to the house. Mrs Hacker (Condon's daughter) doesn't remember who brought 1t, No one else does.
 "Perrone identifies a man he saw in the middle of Bronx park but they can't tell who comes to Con- don's home.
 ITO stand in Garden of Eden, like that Bronx park and wait for q taxicab--why there are never any taxis in that park. It must have been that Dr Cohdon knew Perrone.
 Talk about plants in this case! {! Everything seems to have been planted since this defendants ar- rest.
 Reilly scoffed at the suggestion that a man with sprained ankle (after the kidnaping) could have leaped over the Woodlawn fence and been chased by "that All- American patriot, 71-year-old man"
 So imagine q man who kid- nuaped the baby and got the ram Al. a- N- AAN