The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-17
Berlin Reported
Aiding kidnaper
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arrest on September 20, District At
torney Foley Of the Bronx declared
he was convinced Fish was in
nocent of any completely in the
crime.
The Dickstein Investigating Com
mittee at that time brought to light
that Fisch never met Hauptmann
until four months after the hdnap-
ing of the Lindbergh baby on
March l, 1892.
# the New York police, in COL
liberation with the Hitler govern
ment, are actually attempting to
prove that Fisch is involved in the
kidnapping and murder, instead of
using the dead Jewish furrier's rela-
tives to help fasten the crime on
Hauptmann, as has generally been
believed they would, they will be
only following the logic of their
comments on the news of Haupt-
manns arrest.
At that time ]. Edgar Hoover,
head of the Department Of Justice
agents, declared that Hauptmann
had at least two accomplices, whose
arrest he expected "momentarily, "
and that Hauptmann was almost
certainly not the man who climbed
the now famous "Lindbergh ladder.
Hoover Supported by Sullivan
Hoover was supported in his be-
lief by Deputy Chief Inspector Sui
Ivan of New York, by District At
torney Foley of the Bronx, and by
Prosecutor Hauck Of Hunterdon
County, where the crime was COM
mitted.
Is Ex-COnvict
Chief Defense Attorney Reilly
erstwhile chief attorney for Art
Smith, fascist Khaki Shirt leader
announced yesterday that he has
two more witnesses who will sup
port his contention that Fisch COM
mitted the murder and kidnapping
and then forged Hauptmann's sig
nature to the ransom notes.
One of his witnesses is an eX-
convict, a graduate of Sing Sing
who will say that Fisch was q
dealer in counterfeit money, anc
the other. travel agent in the
heart Of Nazi Yorkville, will swear
that when Fisch bought a ticket
from him to Germany, he paid fol
it from a large roll of gold certif-
Gates.
1t was revealed yesterday that
DIR. Condor himself invalidated
the testimony of the lingerie
model who stated that she saw
Hauptmann trailing Condor in
Fordham railroad station. Con-
don says that he was not in the
FOrdham station on the night that
the model was supposed to have
seen Hauptmann trail him.
Samuelson Kept OFF Stand
Abraham Samuelson, the Bron1
carpenter, who continues to main
tain that he built the ladder TO,
Hauptmann and three accomplices
as well as the ransom money boz
for DR.. Condor, declared yesterda!
that he has never been asked BY
Attorney General Wilentz to iden.
tify Hauptmann. Both Wilentz anc
Reilly still refuse to place Samuel.
son on the stand for fear that thu
carpenter will draw Mr.. Condor
Lindbergh's representative in tht
ransom negotiations, closer to thu
actual criminals. Samuelson charges
Department of Justice agents with
warning him not to talk.
Samuelson's declarations dovetai
perfectly with Reilly's own conten.
ton that the kidnapping and muir.
der were the product of an under.
world mob" working with member,
of the Lindbergh household. They
also corroborate statements madc
by Lindbergh that he saw two mer
at the cemetery gate the night thai
the $4,000 in ransom money wa
handed to the mysterious John.
The dullnesS of the handwriting
exp2rts' testimony is putting the
jury to sleep and causing no little
anguish to the society" folk VIII;
are sacrificing seeing some of the
best dog shows of the season tt
attend the circus here. The mos
interesting points thus far made il
their testimony are that one of the
experts once proved a man guilty
only to have the real criminal con.
fess later, and that the hypher
which Hauptmann consistently usec
between New and york" was
also used by Fisch.
Reilly, the running over of whose
dog by Rolls Royce caused more
comment here than the Nazi terrol
in the Saar, is trying desperatel,
to explain just where he is get
ting the enormous sums that he i
spending in Hauptmann's defense
Yesterdays explanation was that h
was paying his expenses out of hi
own pocket. Today's explanation
that Hauptmann and his wife hat
saved $4,000 between them, mos
Of it in saving banks, at the tim
of his arrest. Mr.. Reilly has no
yet declared that he found the
money in little tin box.