Word: condonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among newsmen, who could hear the motor being started and stopped by remote control, it was an open secret. A courtroom guard was stationed hardly a dozen feet from the camera. Counsel for both sides could easily have been aware that their examination of Col. Lindbergh, Mrs. Lindbergh, Dr. Condon and Defendant Hauptmann was being recorded for history. It was generally understood that the films would be released the instant the trial ended...
...John Francis ("Jafsie") Condon, 74, thrice pointed to Defendant Hauptmann, thrice declared, "John [with whom he had negotiated and to whom he had given $50,000 for the Lindbergh baby's return] is Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
...Henry Breckinridge, Lindbergh friend and lawyer, helped dissipate the defense's insinuations that "Jafsie" Condon was criminally embroiled in the case when he testified that that old Bronx schoolteacher had been opposed from the start to giving ransom without first seeing the child...
...night of April 2, 1932 when you were in the vicinity of St. Raymond's Cemetery and prior to delivering the money to Dr. Condon and you heard a voice hollering, "Hey, Doctor," in some foreign voice .'.. . since that time have you heard the same voice...
...except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon...