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Aftermath was the biggest party since 1929, the most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie"') Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. At a nearby table, Bruno Richard Hauptmann's lawyer, Lloyd Fisher, glared into a beer glass. At 5 o'clock in the morning, a bartender named Mike Hurley and 13 friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down...
Perkins Hall--Clarence M. Condon of Washington...
...swept clean of Republicans (TIME, Jan. 21). Governor Green became the first Democrat in decades really to rule Rhode Island. Even the Republicans composing the State Supreme Court were cashiered and Governor Green refilled their places. To the new Supreme Court he appointed U. S. Representative Francis B. Condon, of Rhode Island's First Congressional District...
...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...
...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...