Evening star., 1935-03-03
Hidden, Scattered or De.
stroyed Is Question
Battling Experts.
authorities Far Apart OF,
Theories of Bills
Disappearance.

tOyeLHeT Oy uL Tue LTeuuS " IH-
formation on the Ltndbergh ran
som, from independent inUestiga-
tions and from Official records and
testimony. Much OF the material
neper before has been published.
Copyright. 1885. by the Associated Press)
NEW YORK, March 2.-The ran
som phase of the Lindbergh case re-
mains tonight, three years and one
day after the actual kidnapping OF
the child, only "two-fifths solved"
OF the $4,000 paid by Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh to ransom collector in
Bronx cemetery April 2, 1882, only
$l9.715 has been accounted for.
Somewhere - either in hidden
place, in actual circulation still, or
perhaps destroyed by the Treasury
Department-there is $30.285 of the
currency which DR.. John F. Condor,
the Lindbergh intermediary, handed
over to the ransom collector.
Where is it?
Some authorities who have been
active in the investigation of the
crime of the Sourland Hills believe
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, under
death sentence for the murder, has
the money in hidden place
Others believe Hauptmann sue
ceeded-despite the fact that the
numbers on each bill were listed and
known to all banking houses-ir
putting it into circulation.
One official of the Federal Reserve
tnniOht tho
impossible" as regards theory tina
the ransom bills could have beer
passed through the banks unrecognizec
to be finally destroyed or stored in the
old money vaults of the United State.
Treasury Department.
Reverse View Held.
The Internal Revenue Department
on the other hand. holds that much
If not all of the $30.2S5 which is still
unaccounted for must have passed
through the Federal Reserve Bank.
and been finally destroyed.
Either this" observed Hugh Mac.
| Quillan. special agent in charge Of
| the New York division of the Interna
Revenue Department, ''or the bills art
still in circulation.
There are probably quite a few
| of the bills still being used or stored
| away by the public, but a large par
of it must have slipped through tht
banks into the Treasury Department.
An official of the Federal Reserve
I Bank in New York, who has worked
on identification of the Lindbergt
ransom money, said that either o.
these possibilities would be "out o.
the question"
There is one possibility of tht
money getting past u.s." he said, "ane
that is very remote.
During the two weeks following
the payment of the ransom, things
were in such a mess, that with check.
ing the numbers serially and arrang'
ing pamphlets publishing the numbers
money might have got by us.
Doubts Later Slip-Up.
"But following that period. not
single bill could have gone through
the Federal Reserve Bank in New
| York and according to what othel
banks report, equal vigilance was ex'
1
ercised elsewhere"
| He said that even during the hug
turnover occasioned by the President!
gold order in May, 1888, it 'woulo
have been impossible for one Of thu
bills to have escaped our attention
| We were so careful"
With regard to the bills remaining
! in circulation, he said, 'the life OF
s5 bill ranges from six to eight months
During this period they become sc
used that they are returned to the
Treasury Department and replaced by
! new bills
"The life Of a $40 bill is considerably
longer. They circulate less, but they
are returned to the banks more fire.
quently.
"A $40 bill comes back to the bank
usually before it has circulated g
month. 1t is not so much used as the
$40 bill, but it shows up for scrutiny
more than twice as often"
In prosecuting Hauptmann, New
Jerseys Attorney General David T
Wilentz contended that Hauptmann
and Hauptmann alone, kidnapped the
baby and collected and spent the ran
som.