The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-04
Doctor Condon Is
 Under Suspicion
tcontip ned from Pase ls

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 q. Didn't you have an idea fl was q bootleg gang that did 1t:
 c. If you didn't think it was 9 gang why did you contact Spitale and Bits? 1.-TWO men who were empowered by Lindbergh to act as interm ediaries). A. knew nothing about any bootlegging gang and I wanted to exhaust every possibility.
 q. Didn't you think 1t was the Purple Gang of Detroit? A. l never knew anything about the Purple Gang.
 G Did you ever receive a post card among ransom letters mailed iron Newark? A. don't re- member. There were over 100,- GOO communications.
 Q. You have no personal record of all that mail? A. No.
 a. When you received this note postmarked March 4, 1882, did you turn it over to the New York police7 A. No, did not.
 q. Did the police commissioner of New York city after you re- ceived this letter of March 4, of Z fer to cover every mail box in the city in an attempt to capture the kldhapers? A. l think that was done but I can't be sure.
 d. What did you do after re- ceivtng this second letter? A. l had $5Os000 made available. Then I Iaddea $20,O0O, making $70,0o0:
 c. By the Morgan bank? A
 q. Did they take the serial ntrnbersg A. I think not at first. Later they were taken at my request.
 Q. In the meantime had q reward been offered by the state reward of $25,OO0 offered.
 o. Did you go any place to try to contact the kidnapers between March 4 and T? A. No, believe not.
 c. Then on March z, Colonel Breckinridge brought you Wal 22-23 (exhitits of further ransom notes). A. Yes, he did.
 e. He is an attorney of New York state? A. Yes.
 c. Had Colonel Breckinridge's address been published in the pa pers? A. don't know-I believe so.
 Q. Did you go any place after receipt of this letter tSWE)? A. [ believe not.
 Q. Now after he (Breckin- ridge) brought you this letter (S23), did you get the impression the kidnaper was operating from Brooklyn? A. No, not particu- larly.
 0. Did you have any avenues you suspected? A. No.
 Q. Did you know any flyers who may have been enemies? A. No, did not.
 Q. Did you ever know a flyer named Swede Anderson in the mail service? A. No, did not.
 o. Did you ever have a quarrel With any such person? A. No.
 c. Had you ever known Dr Con- don before this? A. No.
 c. Before you saw pr Condon, did he phone you from New York? A. He called my residence.
 Q. Did you talk to him by phone before you saw him? A. I don't think so.
 a. Did Dr Condon call you on the phone from New York and say u6 Iluu d lcLlCL lIOIil lAG p and after he described the symbol you decided you'd see him? A. didn't talk to him personally.
 Q. Do you know anything about tileogophy? A. Very little.
 c. Did you know that he had taught theosophy for 20 years? A. I know that he had been a teacher.
 Q. Didn't you think 1t strange that a man from the Bronx should have called you up? A. Not par ticularly.
 Q. Finally Dr Condon came out to your house and exhibited @ note, didn't he? A. That is right.
 Lindbergh appeared less fus- tered by Reilly's pounding, how ever, than he had been in the morning. At times he smiled when he replied, and there was some- thing approaching a grin on his face when he was asked If he knew anything about theosophy.
 Hauptmann's arms were folded and he riveted his eyes on the wit ness.
 Q. When you contacted Rosner (another intern ediary) did yon give him a copy of the symbol? A. My recollection is that he had seen the symbol.
 o. Had 1t been published in pa. pers? A. Not to my knowledge.
 c. Who had seen the symbol up to that time? A. Some of the state police, some of the federal internal revenue men, and myself. be- lieve, went to his home in the Bronx.
 9. Did he tell you he went to fhe Bronx News with a suggestion Sor an advertisement in the paper? q. He said he had been to the pa ber.
 D. Did it eyer strike you that Iab master mind might have in berted an ad in the paper and ailr swered # himself? A. It's incoil- ceiyable.
 0. The Bronx News was his