Word: condonable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legger visited Mr. Curtis with information purportedly from the kidnappers. Mr. Curtis was unable to reach Col. Lindbergh himself, so he enlisted the aid of two fellow townsmen who knew the family. The triumvirate repeatedly maintained that they were dealing with a different group from the one which "Jafsie" Condon encountered. Cols. Lindbergh and Breckinridge appeared to put most faith in the "Jafsie" trail. With Mr. Curtis and Mr. Dobson-Peacock operating last week in the same area as Col. Lindbergh, there was inference that the two trails were beginning to converge...
...Jafsie." John F. Condon, 72, became associated with the case in its second week. He is a retired public school teacher of The Bronx who once did social service work at Sing Sing and has occupied himself from time to time during his later years with writing letters to the newspapers. At the outset he had announced in The Bronx Home News that he would be glad to help restore the child to its parents...
...little rummage shop which he runs for charity came a woman, two months ago, who mysteriously whispered for him to meet her a few days later in the Tuckahoe, N. Y. railway station. Thither went Mr. Condon on the appointed day, accompanied by Al Reich, onetime pugilist. There the woman told him to go home and await a letter. When the letter came it contained an enclosure for Col. Lindbergh. Mr. Condon read the enclosure over the telephone to Col. Lindbergh who said he recognized the identifying '"token." Under the authorship of Mr. Condon there began a series of more...
Through Mr. Condon, negotiations progressed satisfactorily to Col. Lindbergh up to the time that "Jafsie" turned over $50,000 to the supposed kidnapping representative. The man informed him that the baby was safe aboard a boat moored off Gayhead. at the southern tip of Martha's Vineyard. Two trips to that locality convinced Col. Lindbergh that his child was not there. It was then that the serial numbers of the 5,150 bills, in $5, $10 and $20 denominations, which made up the ransom were broadcast through the Treasury Department. In Greenwich, Conn., New York City and, last week...
Last week the "Jafsie" notes ceased, with a repetition of: What is wrong? Have you crossed me? Please, better directions. Through the newsreel Mr. Condon, a small man with a grey mustache and bowler hat, reiterated that he had not given up hope of renewing his dealings with those who duped him. But his inexplicable movements, so perplexing to newshawks who watched his little frame house night & day after the ransom was paid, diminished. On one occasion he had seized a small U. S. flag, waving it frantically over his head as he ordered reporters off his premises. Another time...