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Prosecution's witnesses will be many. First on the list is Col. Lindbergh. He will swear that he recognized the voice of Hauptmann as the one which called "Hey, doctor, over here, doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over a Bronx cemetery wall in a vain attempt to get the baby back. About all Nurse Gow can say is that she did not see the kidnapper. Joseph Perrone, a New York taxicab driver, will identify Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to take the message...
...Deal. The Satevepost's outbursts fell on many an unfriendly ear. Result: rumbling rumors. As far back as last April it was whispered that the Post's sudden vitality was costing it dearly in circulation. Gossip said that Editor Lorimer and his aides, Caret Garrett, Samuel Blythe, Frank Condon and Harry Leon Wilson, had slipped quietly away to Palm Springs, Calif. for a lengthy secret conference as to whether the Post should continue its bombardment of the Roosevelt Administration...
District Attorney Foley believed that he had ample evidence to convict Bruno Hauptmann on the New York indictment of extortion. Handwriting experts positively identified the ransom notes to "Jafsie" Condon as Hauptmann's work. In Hauptmann's garage $13,750 of the ransom money had been found. In Hauptmann's home was discovered notepaper identical with that used in the ransom notes. A loose board taken from a closet in Hauptmann's apartment was found to have "Jafsie" Condon's street address and telephone number scribbled on it. And burrowing into the garage walls, detectives...
...sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the aged and eccentric Bronx school master who as an intermediary handed $50,000 in ransom cash to someone whom he cannot yet positively identify. Bruno Hauptmann did not confine his outdoor life to city parks. His neighbors remember that he used to go hunting in the autumn, bring home...
...worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's penmanship...