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...recent flight of Dr. John F. Condon, Bronx educator and famous go-between throughout the Lindbergh case, is highly significant. Of especial interest is the fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat...
...absence of Condon at such a time, however, must be viewed in a very different light. Throughout the case his position has been one of mystery:-one in which neither the public at large nor the press has been fully satisfied as to the veracity of his statements or to the simon-purity of his dealings. He has been in close contact with what might be called the criminal elements of the cause celebre, he has been largely responsible for convicting Hauptmann, and yet, despite the mass of circumstantial evidence, there is great feeling in the country today that, though...
Long before the execution, Condon had entered into a contract with a sensational magazine for a series of articles entitled "Jafsie Tells All". Today, as Bruno Richard Hauptmann nears the death chair, as the New Jersey court of pardons turns down his plea for a respite and as the public sithers in a wave of doubt and high-feeling, Governor Hoffman hurls the credulous and timely challenge-Condon has not told all And implication adds:-he knows far more than he has told and he is fleeing the country in fear...
...John F. ("Jafsie") Condon sent the Times a long screed which spoke of "the anguish of Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in the throes of blessed motherhood," called the kidnapping of "our beloved 'Eaglet' " the "greatest and most disastrous case of all times, excepting the Crucifixion of the devine Son of Man," and reached its climax in: "Yes, but the ashes of the darling baby, victim of a fiend urged by greed of gain, and seeking pleasure, are mute witnesses of the Crime, while within every American's breast there is a beating of the heart, tolling...
...March 13, 1932 Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon made his first contact with the kidnapper...