The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-20
SCHLOSSMA
ADMITS PART
in KIDNAPPING
District Attorney Geoghan
Indicates Wendell Case
Is Clearing

BROOKLYN, n. Y, April 20.
(UP).-District Attorney William
+. Y. Gcoghan announced at the
Parkville police station last night
that Martin Schlossman had add
mitted participating in the kid
mapping Of Paul II. Wendell, dis
barred attorney who faced charges
for time of numbering Charles
\. Lindbergh, il.
Schlossman, his wife, Fay, and
her brother, Sidney Bleefeld, have
been questioned about the case
since Saturday when they were
picked up after Wendell Identified
the home Of Harry Blccfeld,
SchlOSSman' father-in-law as the
house i'm which he was held CAP
tive ten days and tortured until
he signed a confession to the
Lindbcrgh crime.
Gcoghan said that a statement
by SchloSSman tailed in all re-
SpectS to WcndclS account of his
abduction.
Wendell said he was seized in
front of his hotel in Manhattan
Feb. IA and taken by automobile
TO house in Brooklyn where h.
was held until he signed a con
feSsion. On Feb. % he was taken
to the home of Ellis Parker, noted
Burlington county, New Jersey,
detective, where Parker qucS-
toned him. Then he was put in
the New Lisbon, N. j., home for
feeble minded males where he was
held until March % when he was
taken to the Mercer county linz
and arrested on a charge of muir
dering the Lindbergh baby. The
Mercer county grand jury's inves-
legation Of his case delayed exc
cution Of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann for the crime by three days.
The charge against Wendell was
dropped last Friday.
Identification Of the house
where Schlossman and relatives
lived as the place where Wendell
was held is positive, Gcoghan said.
There was doubt Saturday on this
point, he said, because police could
not find narrow door and a par
tjtion which Wendell described,
However, Geoghan said SchloSs-
man cleared this up in his state
ment. saying that he tore down
the partition and scattered the
lumber.
Geoghan's announcement OF
SChlossman'S statement contained
no reference to anything SchloSs-
man may have said about others
involved or Of the motive or per
sons behind the bizarre case.
Geoghan said q charge would
be placed against SchloSSman late
last night. His wife, Fay, and Sid
new Bleefeld were permitted to
return home for the night, but
Geoghan instructed them to be at
his office at II q. IN. today pre-
pared to appear before the Kings
county grand jury
Four Brooklyn detectives lett
by airplane last night for Detroit
repeatedly to pick up Murray
Bleefeld and Harry Weiss. Wen
del allegcdly identified them from
| photographs as two Of the Tour
men who abducted him.
Geoghan said that SchloSsman
admitted he drove the car IN
! which Wendell was taken from
Manhattan to Brooklyn.
The district attorney said that
! before obtaining SchlosSmah
statement he questioned an ac-
! uuaintancc, Benjamin Pasullnck'
who allegedly said Schlossman
| came to him last Thursday and
told him that if he was questioned
as to SchIossman's whereabouts
on the day of the kidnapping nc
was to say that Schlossman spent
/ the day and evening in the laun
| dry Schlossman and a relative
owned. Geoghan added that Pa
| Tt l,,,;EtoJ Scb1oSCman wa!