Word: isidor
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...included the prosecution's announcement that it was investigating a Bronx garageman's story of repainting Hauptmann's "dirty green" sedan shortly after the crime, and that a Manhattan cinema theatre cashier would say that Hauptmann passed her a $5 ransom bill at a date before Isidor Fisch left the U. S. to die in Germany. Hauptmann's story is that Fisch left the money with him, that he did not "dip into" it until Fisch sailed away...
...positively identified as the man who passed a $10 ransom bill at an uptown Manhattan filling station; he had $20 of the ransom money on him when arrested and $14.590 more was found in his garage. 2) Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's partner in random business ventures, used ransom money to pay his passage back to Ger many, where Fisch died of tuberculosis in 1933. 3) The handwriting on the note left in the baby's crib and subsequent ransom notes tallies with the handwriting on Hauptmann's automobile license application. 4) The man who wrote the ransom...
...Hauptmann did not know the money he was passing was ransom money. He "dipped into it" when he found a shoe box full of it left by Isidor Fisch, who owed Hauptmann $7,500 which he never repaid...
Alleged loans to Isidor Fisch...
...provisions against "loss-leaders" and unfair advertising of consistently lowered prices, the code was "stealthily" emasculated, said the Darrow Board, between its adoption and final promulgation. Responsible, hinted the report, was the influence of one potent "socially and politically" figure in the industry (i. e. Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co.). That General Johnson had openly admitted making a change was taken by the report to be the last straw. "In our judgment," the retail trade report concluded, "the rule of the military commander is totally unsuited to the genius, habits, traditions or psychology...