Evening star., 1935-03-03
Two Bill Types Missing.

Two Bill Types Missing.
So far as the authorities have dis
closed, none of the $4,000 in Federal
Reserve notes nor of the $4,000 in
s5 bills included in the ransom bundle
have been traced to Hauptmann.
The money which Hauptmann ad-
mitted he possessed, and which he
contends was left with him by his
now-dead friend and business part
ner, Isador Fsch, was in $40 and
$40 gold certificates.
Hauptmann said he had spent
maybe little more than 500" Of
the ransom money between the time
he says he discovered it in the pack
age Fisch had left. the middle Of
August, 1894, and his arrest, Septem-
ber IS, 1884.
On May /. 1888. authorities discov-
cred that $1,000 of the ransom money
had been converted to other currency
at the New York Federal Reserve
Bank. The amount was traced to
u. j. Faulkner" which the police
decided was fictitious name. The
State made no effort to compare
"Faulkner's" handwriting with the
admitted specimens of Hauptmann
when Hauptmann was tried.
Three days before the Presidents
gold order became effective two other
large sums of ransom money were
exchanged at New York banks.
Findings Withheld.
On April %, 1898, $500 in ransom
$40 gold certificates were turned in
at the Manufacturers Trust Co.
Except to mention at Hauptmann' S
trial that they were turned in,
authorities have not made public the
findings Of their investigation of this
affair.
The other large ransom money
transaction received equally slight
explanation. Another $500 in ransom
$40 bills was turned in at the
Chemical National Bank in New York
on April 26 or 27, 1888.
Outside New York City only nine
points in the United States received
ransom money.
1t is significant that six Of these
cities received ransom bills within a
few months early in 1884. Haupt-
mann has consistently contended
that Isador Fisch left the ransom in
shoe box when he departed for
Germany, where he later died, early
in December, 1888.
Hauptmann said he did not know
that the box contained money. and
consequently did not begin to spend
the bills until the middle of August,
1884. There is no public record of
ransom money turning up in New
York City during the interval be.
tween Fisch's departure and the date
set by Hauptmann for the finding of
the money.
Bills Are Scattered.
Ransom exchange points are largely
concentrated in upstate New York.
On March 3, 1884, two IS ransom
bills turned up in Newark, N. J.: one
week later another bill appeared in
Huntington, Long Island, N. Y.
Other bills were identified as fol-
lows:
April %, 1884. a S. bill in Albany.
May 10, 1884, a IS bill in Troy.
May rs, 1884, one or two IS bills
in Utica.
Early Summer, 1894, at a point in
Michigan, near Chicago, Ill, another
bill.
June 10, 1888, a $40 gold certificate
near Cherry Valley, N. Y.
October IS, 1882, a bill at Tarry-
town, N. Y.
June 80. 1892, a bill at Mount
Vernon, N. Y.
Three bills were discovered to have
been in Asia. One of them, a SIS bill,
was later learned to have been in
Colombo, Ceylon, prior to the kid
naping
Excluding the money found with
Hauptmann, the three large ransom
exchanges in New York banks, which
authorities have not traced to Haupt-
mann, and the bills that have turned
up out of town, about $945 of the re-
covered ransom appeared in New York.
Bills Circulate Quickly.
The first bill to be recognized turned
up at the East River Savings Bank
two or three days after the ransom
payment. During April and May,
1882, five bills were passed in New
York.
Federal and banking authorities say
they know of no ransom money that
has turned up in Boston. Reports
were circulated that two ransom bills
were offered an airplane office there
in payment for passage recently.
According to official records the last
bill to turn up was a $40 gold certifi-
cate "fioater" that was recognized in
Newark on October IL, 1884. This Is
believed to be one Of the bills Haupt-
mann alv y.oce;~-