Evening star., 1935-01-09

SOullScl EfuW6IQ Js 1tcu4y III d
mistrial in the case Of Bruno Rich.
ard Hauptmann was denied today
by Justice Thomas w. Trenchard.
(copyright. 1885. by the Associated Press.)
PENNINGTON, N. j., January g.
DR.. John F. (Jafsie) Condor glared at
Bruno Richard Hauptmann in murder
court today and said he was the
John" who negotiated for and re-
Ceived the $4,000 Lindbergh ransom
The elderly Bronx educator had
been on the stand only few minutes
when he waved an extended finger
toward the prosecutor who questioned
him and said:
"'John' is Bruno Richard Haupt-
nann."
The notorious prisoner, accused OF
kidnapping and numbering Baby
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr.,
nearly three years ago, blanched first
and then turned a deep scarlet. He
Rlared back at the witness, then
Qlared back at the witness, then
averted his face.
Condor also identified the letter ne
received IN response to the news.
paper advertisement which projectec
him into the Lindbergh case month
after the baby was stolen and tne
subsequent notes, one Of them found
under q stone, which directed MS
activities as negottator.
Tells Of Meeting.
He related In detail his first meet
ing with the then mysterious John,
when the two talked for an hour IN
Van Cortland Park, acroSs the street
from Wcodlawn Cemetery. He salo
"John" was Hauptmann and that ne
asked at that first rendezvous:
;'WiIl burn If the baby Is dead?''
Also, he testified, the man de-
clared:
s"I am only go-betwesn."
He related that he pleaded with the
man, calling upon him to ponder what
his mother would think of his actions,
and offered to give him an overcoat
because his own seemed thin.
HE coughed," said Jafsie. TT was
what they call q hollow cough"
Recalls Cough.
Whatever the cough was like, DR..
Condor told the court he didn't want
to initiate 1t. The long interview, he
testified, ended with John" saying he
would send the baby's slipping" suit,
which DR.. Condor translated into
sleeping suit"
The two of them sat on bench
near q shack In the park as they
talked, John" pretending to be only
the emissary for others and express
ing fear the leader would smack me
up" assuring the aged educator Mrs.
Lindbergh would get her baby back.
The baby then lay dead in woods
near HopeweIl.
Jafsie related that when John"
coughed he (Jafsie) remarked to him:
1.-THE inroads Of pulmonary disease
seem to start; let me go over and get
you some medicine"
The defense is expected to seize
upon the cough and the remark to bear
out contention that John" was not
Eauptsnann, but Isadore Fisch, who
died Of tuberculosis in Germany.
Hauptnann claims that Lindbergh
ransom money found In his possession
had been given to him for safekeep-
ing by Fisch.
In the Van Cortland conversation,
DR.. Condor related, he offered John"
q thousand dollars of his own, but
'tJohn" spurned it, and told him:
Nobody else shall ever get that
baby but you, and you can put that
baby's arms around Mrs. Lindbergh's
neck"
Ransom Paid.
When luncheon recess was ordered,
Or. Condor was in the midst Of re-
cital of the trip which he and Lind
bergh made to st. Raymonds Gene
terry, the Bronx, to pay the demanded
ransom.
--.e staggy-b-owed o.6 r:as turned
- the witness chair to Ak and IN
breaking gaze upon the gray face Of
f1auptmann as he was being led back
to jail for his luncheon. Hauptmann,
whether conscious of the gaze or not,
kept his face averted as he left the
room.
DR.. Condon's first identification of
Hauptmann was reached early In his
testimony, when he mentioned taking
the money 70 TIE cemetery.
Jafsie LOquacious.
Jafsie at times was loquacious, de-
Ivering his testimony in the manner
Of an after-dinner speaker. Some
times, after simple questions, his Ian
guage and bearing would be ponder
GUS.
He gestured eloquently, and made
the most of the show, bringing his
voice up at the approach Of any
dramatic incident in his recital. He
was sometimes precise, sometimes def
erential, sometimes apologetic, appear
ing to be very careful that he break
no rules of evidence. To this end he
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