Evening star., 1936-02-27
HOFFMAN DOUBTS
BRUNO |DENT|F|ER
Taxi Driver. Says He Saw
Or. Condor Talk 10 Man
Resembling Note Sender.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs.
TRENTON, N. j., February 81
Gov. Hoffman today questioned the
Identification by Joseph Perrone, taxi
driver, Of Bruno Richard Hauptmann
as the man who hired him to deliver a
note to DR.. John F. Condor prior to
the payment of ransom for Charles A.
Lindbergh, jr. FL
Perrone delivered the note to Con-
don the night Of March IL, 1882. A
man in Gunhill road, the Bronx, gave
it to him. 1t contained instructions to
Condor how to make contact with the
kidnaper.
At Hauptmann's trial Perrone said
the man who gave him the note was
Hauptmann.
The statement cited by the Governor
was signed by Detective Claude Pater-
son and sergt, A. zapolsky Of the State
Police.
:" " Perrone," it said STATED that
q few days after he attended the
Bronx County grand jury he had taken
a passenger to City Island and there
had observed DR.. Condor talking to
a man who he thought was the man
that gave him the note"
Wilentz Makes No Move.
The Governor made his announce
ment almost at the moment Attorney
General David T. Wilentz, Haupt-
mann's chief prosecutor. was saying at
his Perth Amboy home he would make
mo move at all" to combat the Gov
ernor's renewed attacks on the evil
dence against Hauptmann.
The Governor fatty questioned Per-
rones Identification of Hauptmann.
On February II, 1884. seven months
before Hauptmann's arrest, the Gov
ernor said, Perrone was approached
by a man at Jerome avenue and
Moshulu parkway, the Bronx. The
stranger, who spoke with a German
or Scandinavian accent, asked the di-
rection to SO East Gunhill road.
Perrone told him, the statement to
police said. there was no such num-
ber on East Gunhill road, but one in
West Gunhill road. Perrone thought
at the time the man looked like the
one who gave him the ransom note
nearly two years earlier.
He described the man to police as
about 38 or 80 years old, about S
feet S inches tall, with a light COM
plexion, light hair turning gray, one
or two upper front teeth missing.
The police report of this was dated
March !, 1884.
Other "Resemblances" Noticed.
Perrone. the Governor said upon a
number of different occasions picked
out persons whom he said greatly re-
sembled the man who gave him the
note and in no case was the descrip-
ton similar to that of Hauptmann.
The Governor also remarked that
Perrone had indicated an interest IN
a man who formerly lived near Prince
ton and who was arrested in the Bronx
for theftS in New Jersey.
The Governor said Perrone once told
Sergt. Zapolsky this man resembled the
note sender more than any other
suspect. Gov. Hoffman said he hao
seen pictures of the man and that he
resembled Hauptmann no more thar
Condon's bodyguard. Al Reich. a
former heavyweight pugilist, IRE.
sembles one of Singers midgets."
Wilentz conferred secretly at Perth
Amboy with Prosecutor Anthony M
Hauck, jr. of Hunterdon County, ane
Col. H. Norman Schwarzopf, head Of
the State police.
Their discussion, he said. covered
everything from the most recent
charge that part of the evidence link.
ing the condemned Hauptmann to the
ladder was framed" A report of this
will be made shortly to Gov. Hoffman
officials declared that the investiga.
Holes Declared Made Later.
tors claimed they were able to show
through violet ray tests that four mai
holes in joists in Hauptmann's Bron,
attic-holes which the State con.
tended matched four holes in rail 16'
Of the ladder-were made about thu
time of Hauptmann's arrest.
Attorney General David r. Wilentz
after conference with other prosecu
ton officials in his Perth Amboy hom'
today, said he would make mo NOV,
at all'' to meet renewed attacks of Gov
Hoffman on the evidence agains
Hauptmann.
Wilentz said he and Prosecutor
Hauck of Hunterdon County and Col
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head of tn,
State Police, had discussed "every'
thing" about the case.
The Governor himself continued hi
attack on the testimony of Millart
Whited, Sourland lumberjack, one O.
the chief Identification witnesse
against Hauptmann. Whited wa
questioned Saturday ny the Governor
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, jr., O
Hunterdon County and Hauptmann,
chief counsel. c. Lloyd Fisher.
In New York last night the Cover
nor made public excerpts from
Whited's examination, which he sub
mitted as proof that Whited wa
promised part of the reward ($25, ,00l
offered by the State) if he identified
Hauptmann, and that he was showl
a number of photographs upon diff
ferent occasions before he went t,
New York"
Whited was the sole identification
witness at the Bronx extradition pro
ceedings, and testified at the trial h.