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...Jersey shocked indignation at the crime took the form of bitterness against the way Col. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf and his State Police had handled the investigation. Emerson L. Richards, Republican majority leader ot the State Senate, promised an inquiry. The County Detectives Association demanded Col. Schwarzkopf's removal: "This action will be asked entirely because of his inefficiency in the Lindbergh case. The child was found dead in close proximity to the home while hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted in searching elsewhere. While Col. Schwarzkopf's men were being sent all over this country and Europe, officials...
...Schwarzkopf began examining he negotiators. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon told how the supposed kidnappers had sent him as an earnest to secure ransom, a sleeping garment which the Lindberghs identified as the one worn by their child the night of his abduction. The fact that the child's body was found without the sleeping garment led police to believe that the man to whom "Jafsie" Condon gave $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money, in a Bronx cemetery on April 2, represented the actual kidnappers and killers. Mr. Condon described this man, said he "could pick...
...story was soon confirmed by Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey State Police on Col. Lindbergh's behalf: "A ransom of $50,000 was paid to the kidnappers, properly identified as such, upon their agreement to notify Col. Lindbergh as to the exact whereabouts of the baby. The baby was not found at the point designated. Several days were permitted to elapse to give the kidnappers every opportunity to keep their agreement...