Evening star., 1937-05-08
PARKER LAWYERS
EMPHASIZE CODE
Message Figures in Cross.
fire With WendeI-TriaI
Recessed 3 Days.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Paul H. Wendell, former Trenton,
~. j.. ldwyer, Wds abducted Febru-
ary II, 1886, in Ne,u York bv three
men he later identified as Murray
Bleefeld, Martin Schlossman and
Harry Weiss. He was taken to a
house in Brooklyn, held 10 days
and tortured into falsely con ntessino
he kidnapped the Lindberah boby.
BY the Associated Press,
NEWARK, N. j., May "a letter
containing coded message written
by Paul H. Wendell to Ellis H. Parker
January 4, 1896, and including state
ment the Lindbergh baby was mot in
sight was emphasized by the defense
yesterday during renewed cross
examination of Wendell in the Parker
conspiracy trial in Federal Court.
The message previously had been
introduced by the Government to
show Wende's association with De-
tectlve Parker in his Lindbergh in
Vestigation, but specific phrases were
stressed today as Wendell and defense
counsel continued their wordy cross
fire.
Parker, chief of Burlington County
detectives, and his son, Ellis. jr, are
charged with plotting the KIDNAPPING
OF Wendell in an effort to save the life
OF Bruno Richard Hauptmann and to
enable them to profit through a sale
Nf tho YNl1rrnrtoI o1,,tJ
the Lindbergh crime.
Cleared After Confession.
Allegedly as the result of torture,
Wendell confessed to the Lindbergh
KIDNAPPING, then repudiated the con-
1ession and subsequently was cleared.
The Wendell episode, however, delayed
briefly the execution OF Hauptmann IS
months ago.
The letter stressed today was de-
coded by Wendell as follows:
Sharpe knew Chauffeur Dutch
Schultz, known Faulkner; gangland
tol-Bitz hands off, money hot, stay
away, unload money, fish. Arrange
TO unload wife Of chauffeur who ne
gotiated Knodon PLANNED; inny gang
land Haup Mann money pssser. !
am in tough spot. Keep my name
out OF this. Baby not in sight. Will
return soon if possible without get
ting hurt. Concrete as usual"
The baby not in sight" phase,
one defense attorney aide said, showed
1t was Wendel's theory the body found
two months after the Lindbergh kid
haplng tve years ago was not that
OF little Charles A. Lindbergh, jr
Wendell said the baby referred to in
the phrase was the Lindbergh baby
but contended it was an assertion by
man he talked with after Parker
reputedly asked him to find "a stoop-
shouIoered German man with limp. u
Part Of Message Own.
This man-Wendel said he could not
Identify him without referring to a
note book he charged was taken from
his possessions by the defense-made
I'll the statement except the phrases
Il am IN tough spot" Keep nv
came out Of this" and will return
soon if possible without getting hurt.
These, he said, were his own and re-
Ierred TO a need for money.
The unidentified man, he said. meal nj
Violet Sharpe, maid in the Dwight
Morrow household, who committed sui
eide during the Lindbergh case, where
rsharpe" was written. "Tol-Bitz hands
of" he said, expressed the mans
opinion Dutch Schultz and Faulkner
funidentifled) told Spitale and Bitz
tMndbergh intermediaries) to keep
hands off" the Lindbergh case.
Money hot" Wendell stated, re-
ferred money that passed as ran
som money. Asked who was to ''un-
load money" he said the man meant
Fish Isador Fisch, one-tine busi-
ness associate of Hauptmann) "Kno-
don supposedly referred to DR.. John
F. Condor, who served as ransom in
termediary for Col. Lindbergh. it was
said, and "Haup Mann" was Haupt-
mann. Explanations OF other words
were not brought out, nor was there
any explanation of the significance of
the message as a whole
Today's session ended the trials
second week. Court recessed until
Tuesday.