The Washington times., 1935-12-07
SLEUTH RAPS
STATE POLICE
IN CASE
Says Giving Out RAN
som Note Made Lind
bereh Victim Of Hoax
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clared attempts are being made
to make a political football OF
the Hauptmann case"
Attorney General Wilentz, who
prosecuted Hauptmann an d
branded him as Public Enemy
No. of the World" issued the
terse statement:
"All the evidence is in. The
Jury has been out and guilty is
the verdict, with no recommends
ton for mercy. The States high
est court had upheld the fairness
of the conviction. My job is fin
ished."
Officials Bitter
Another official, more bitterly
outspoken, said:
"The Hauptmann case may get
O kicking around until the Re
publican national convention
meets to nominate its candidates
for President and Vice President. J."
Angrily charging Parker with
seeking publicity, a State police
official said:
The Fisch myth was thorough
" exploded at the trial. That
was Hauptmann'S alibi. The de-
tense made the most Of 1t, yet
a Jury of IL citizens refused to
believe the fantastic story for a
minute"
The famous "Fisch story" was
one of the strangest alibis ever
spun in a court room, yet the con
demned German carpenter has
clung stubbornly to it from the
day of his arrest more than year
ago.
He said that Fisch. his partner
in a shady fur business during
1881 and 1882, left a shoe box in
the Hauptmann home in the
Bronx before sailing to Leipzig IN
1888. Hauptmann swore he didn't
. look into the box until he learned
of Fisch's death a few months
later. To his amazement, he said,
the box contained $13,750 in gold
certificates.
Didn't Know Source
He said he didn't dream this
was part of the Lindburgh ran
som until he was arrested while
passing one of the bills in Septem-
ber, 1884. He couldn't explain
why he had so carefully buried
the money beneath the floor OF
his garage, where police found
some $4,000 Of it.
The State brought three OF
Fisch's relatives and the nurse
who was with him when he died
to Flemington from Germany to
shatter Hauptmann's alibi at the
trial. They were wined and dined
in Trenton hotels throughout the
trial, at the expense of several
thousand dollars to the State.
Only one, Hannah Fisch, ISidor's
sister, testified. She said her
brother had died a poor man.
While State officials directed a
TRADE against Parker for making
a lot of noise and ballyhooing
himself" the 62-year-old sleuth
took few pot shots at the State
police.
He charged Col. Norman
schwarzkopf, head of the State
troopers, with making possible
the hoax which cost Colonel Limo
bergh $4,000 ransom.
when Governor Moore asked
me to interest myself in the case
shortly after the kidnapping I i'm
mediately wrote to Colonel
Schwarzdopf and asked him for
copy of the original ranSome
note left in the bedroom" he said.
HE wrote back and said il 1
had any handwriting specimens
I wanted compared to send them
on. That's what he told me. and
yet he turned photostatic copy
of that nursery note over to a
group of gansterS few days after
the kidnapping.
Charges Hoax
"The State of New Jersey made
Colonel Lindbergh the victim of a
$50, 900 ransom hoax when it let a
copy of that original note get into
the underworld"
Parker said he has been working
quietly on the case since 1882. He
said he is not being paid, but
merely trying to unravel the mys-
teries of the crime because it faS-
cinates him. His activities were
disclosed for the first time when it
became known this week that Gov
ernor Hoffman had visited Haupt-
mann in his death house cell in
the State prison.
Friends of the detective said
Parker also has interviewed Haupt-
mann in several secret death house
interviews. This, however, was de-
died by Col. Mark o. Kimberling
principal keeper at the prison.
Kimberling told International
News Service:
Parker has not seen Haupt-
mann in the death house. nor has
he asked permission to do so.
will not let him in without an
order from Justice Trenchard, the
trial Judge"
After making his first few re-
marks to reporters, Parker went
into seclusion in his home at
Mount Holly. About Is reporters
beSieged the place in a virtual
picket line, seeking more informa.
ton, but the Burlington county
Sape would MT COW onU moro