The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Official Saws
Kidnap Case
Is UnsOIved


PENNINGTON. N. J.. Jan. %
Neither the conviction nor the &C
quittsl Of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann will convince anybody that
the mystery surrounding the kid
mapping and murder Of the Lind
bergh baby has been solved, Special
Deputy Attorney General George
Large has admitted to newspaper
men.
Larges statement is the first pub
lie admission made by anyone con-
nected with the prosecution to this
effect. Attorney General Wilentz,
however, has frequently stated
privately that he is convinced the
Nazi defendant was one of several
criminals who committed the crime
AS the evidence linking Haupt-
mann to the kidnaping-but not
necessarily to the murder-of the
Lindbergh baby continues to mount,
a movement to have Hauptmann
acquitted on the ground that he is
insane is being organized by sew
eral groups interested in freeing
him.
The insanity that is supposed to
characterize Hauptmann, however,
is apparently beginning to spread
to Nazi Yorkville, where Haupt-
mann Is considered a martyr to
Jewish persecution embodied in the
person of Attorney General Wilentz.
The more demented Nazi adherents
are contending that Hauptmann is
being charged with the crime be-
cause the first initial in his name,
H" is also the first initial in Hit
ler's name, and that by convicting
Hauptmann of first degree murder
the Jews in New Jersey, under the
leadership of Wilentz, are attempt
ing to strike back at the mass muir
derer in Berlin.
The increasing conviction that
Hauptmann was involved in the
kipnaping is also evoking wales Of
tears for the Nszi from hitherto
neutral" quarters. The staidly hyp-
ocritical MY. Times is describing
Hauptmann as "the most unfortun-
ate man of the century" and the
evening NY. World Telegram, sup
porting its morning counterpart,
has started to call the ex-burglar a
victim of the lost generation. "
Hearst's NY. Journal, which called
Mrs. Lindbergh the second mother
of the Crucifixion" at the beginning
of the trial, now calls Hauptmann
the forgotten man in the case.
Wilentz is expected to adduce
further testimony today to prove
| that Hauptmann wrote the ransom
notes and that Isidor Fisch, Jewish
furrier who may have been his
notes and that Isidor Fisch, Jewish
partner in shady fur transactions,
could not have been his partner in
either the kidnapping of the baby or
the extortion of the $50 900 in ran
som money fro m Landbergh
through DR.. John CJafsieO Condor,
After Hauptmann takes the stand
in his own defense today, Lindbergh
may also take the stand to repeat
his identification of Hauptmann'S
voice as that belonging to the mys-
FERROUS John" to whom Condor
handed the package of ransom
money. Lindbergh is not expected
however, to repeat his statement to
police at the time of the ransom
payment that two men were on the
scene, instead of the one he now
contends was there.
Chief Defense Attorney Lieuten-
ant Commander Reilly has declared
that he will produce a witness who
will prove that DR.. Condor, all of
whose connections with the kidnap-
ing have never been satisfactorily
explained, knew Greek gangster
named John" before the passing
of the ransom money and that it
was this John" and not Haupt-
mann who was actually in the
cemetery when the ransom money
passed hands.
Hauptmann's alibi for the kid
naping night was strengthened with
the statement by new witness,
who says he saw Hauptmann in the
Bronx at the time Hauptmann is
charged with carrying the Lind
bergh baby down the ladder to its
/ death.