Evening star., 1936-01-11

money tOund IN ms garage IToHt
Fisch, iuho later died in Germany.
Violet Sharpe, Lindbergh servant,
committed suicide after murdered
baby ,Das found Faulkner'S name
uas signed to slip recording bank
deposit OF nearly $4,000 in ransom
money bills. Whether HGuptmdnn
dies may depend on ho,U the Court
OF Pardons considers these tpo
men and tDonldn.
(Copyright 1886. by the Associated Press)
TRENTON, N. j., January H.
Temporary escape from the electric
chair loomed suddenly as a distinct
possibility for Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann today as the Court of Pardons
considered in secret session his plea
for clemency.
This opinion spread swiftly around
the Capitol after Gov. Harold G. Hoff-
man, who is president OF the Pardons
Court, announced he would ask the
attorney general to seek the detention
for questioning of "Jafsie'-Dr. John
F. Condon-who sailed suddenly on
South American cruise yesterday.
Condor sailed after a magazine
began publication of "Jafsie Tells All''
a series of articles by DR.. Condor
purporting to offer new details of the
case, including his beiief that Haupt-
mann mad a confederate
The Governor said he would ask
who directed the Hauptmann prosecu-
ton at Pennington, to seek Condor S
arrest.
"Condon makes the fiat statement
that more than one person was in
volved in the plan," the Governor
said. He goes so far as to write he
knew two of those involved. If DR..
Condor knows these things I feel the
authorities should have the informa-
ton"
Governor Quotes Jafsie.
Conklin said the Governor had OBJ
tanned from the magazine the original
manuscript of Condon's 10-install-
ment Tell All" story of the Lind
bergh case.
Conklin said Condor related that in
telephone conversations with the
ransom-taker, he often talked to per-
sons alongside him.
Condor also related. Conklin said,
that the mysterious John" often re-
ferred to mo. l" man and mo. 2"
man.
Condor says there was blood on
the bedclothing of the crib" Conklin
said. He says that despite the testi-
mony of Col Lindbergh and the State
police, the ransom note was in the
crib and not on the windowsill.
THE Governor is interested in all
these statements, and also in a pur-
ported interview which quotes JafSie
as saying he was offered s250,000 to
change his story. He wants to know
who made the Offer"
Crowd Surrounds Building.
The entrance to the New Jersey
State House was ringed with a crowd
OF curious, with news reel movie cam
eras mounted on trucks sweeping the
scene. as the hour for the meeting of
the Pardon Court neared. The court
convened under the presidency of the
Governor in his outer Office. The de-
alterations were secret.
What effect the Governors request
for the detention of Condor may have
upon Hauptmann's fate was not i'm
mediately ascertainable. 1t seemed
unlikely that DR.. Condor, who paid
the $4,000 ransom for Col. Lind
bergh's baby to a man-identifled as
Hauptmann-in a Bronx cemetery,
could return here before next Friday,
which is the date set for Hauptmann's
electrocution.
Reprieve Is Seen.
This was interpreted by some to
indicate that Hauptmann would at
least receive a reprieve until Condor
can answer the Governors questions,
especially in view of the following
statement by Gov. Hoffman:
II do not believe Bruno Haupt-
(See HAUPTMANN, Page 81