Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1935, Page 5

CONDON IDENTIFIES BRUND AS “I0HN" Says He Is Man Who Got $50,000 Lindbergh Ransom. (Continued From First Page.) sometimes clapped his hand to his mouth to shut off his own words. Attorney General David T. Wilentz asked him: “Did you give the money to a man that night?” “I did.” he answered, his voice be- ginning to rise. “Who did you give it to?” “To John.” “Who is John?" Wilentz' own voice eracked. “Bruno Richard Hauptmann!™ Hauptmann blanched, turned deep scarlet, and glared at the aged wit- ness. Jafsie glared back. Wilentz led up to the identification in this way: “All right, sir. Just a minute. Now, let’s get back just about where we started, where we should start. In March, 1932, as result of a letter or advertisement you inserted. did you receive a note’ C. Lloyd Fisher of defense counsel objected to the question as being lead- ing. “Yes?" Wilentz pressed. *“To look under a table and I would find a stone there,” Condon said, “and finding the stone there, that there would be a note under that astone.” *As a result of finding the stone and the note, where did you go?" “1 went across the way as directed by the note, the original note gave as nearly as I can remember—I could tell in a moment if I saw it—to cross the street, to talk to nobody and to go down to Wittemore avenue.” Now, doctor, did you go down Wit- temore avenue that night?” “1 did.” “Did you meet a man there?” Received Letter. Condon said that he did, and then related his meeting with John, who, he said, was Hauptmann. Then Wilentz asked him what he received as the result of his advertise- ment. “I received a letter with a peculiar signature upon it, consisting——" All right. Just a minute. 1 will try to find the exhibit.” He showed . him an envelope dated March 9, 1932, and postmarked New York. He sked him if he recognized it. “1 received this letter about March 9. 1932, I recollect,” Condon an- swered The letter was offered in evidence. “1 notice that there is some color- ing on that envelope, doctor. that izn’t altogether white. Was that col- oring on when you received it or was it a white envelope?” “To the nearest of my recollection | it was white.” “Now, in that envelope. I take it there were some inclosures?” Yes. sir.” “Will you take a look at some of these papers?” Wilentz said, handing him several exhibits. “I received this letter within that envelope with the directions on it, and the signature of the three holes. It was received in evidence. As dramatic as “Jafsie's” strange adventures in the ransom negotiations is the story of the jail interview wit Hauptmann which the State. h described as follows: Condon sat with Hauptmann on a bench, the two men occupying the same positions “Jafsie” and “John” did during the ransom meeting in the Bronx. Called Bruno “John.” Condon called Hauptmann “John” throughout the hour and a quarter they talked, and both the doctor and the watching witnesses said the pris- oner answered naturally to the name. Conden also couched his sentences as much as possible in the language he used in the ransom conference. After he had moved Hauptmann to tears by speaking kindly of his mother in Germany, his wife and his infant son, Hauptmann told “Jafsie” the State official said, that he had acted as the emissary of a kidnap band in | the ransom negotiations. Condon then besought him to make a complete confession, naming others involved. The aged man promised to g0 to President Roosevelt to obtain clemency for Hauptmann if he would tell the whole story. But Hauptmann, tears on his cheeks. became silent. The first witness to be called before Dr. Condon was Reich, the former prize fighter who was his bodyguard and companion during the ransom ne- gotiations. Reich presented yesterday a graphi eve-witr€ss picture of one of “Jafsie’s” most important contacts with the mysterious “John"—the rendezvous in a Bronx cemetery. It was on that occasion that “Jafsie” and *“John” talked side by side on a bench for an hour and arranged for the return of the slain baby’s sleeping garment to the Lindbergh as a ransom token. Reich told how he drove the doctor first to a deserted frankfurter stand on Jerome avenue early in March, where “Jafsie” found a note under a stone. Apparently in pursuance of instructions in that note, Reich then drove the doctor to 233rd street and Jerome avenue to the cemetery en- trance, “Dr. Condon got out and stood in the triangle in front of the entrance to Woodlawn Cemetery,” he said, re- lating that the retired educator stood there for 10 or 15 minutes. Saw Men in Street. Eventually he came back to the car. seemingly “discouraged,” the wit- ness said. Meanwhile, Reich said he saw & man walk “down south on our side of the street” and he informed “Jafsie” of it. The educator returned to his post before the cemetery gate. A few minutes later, he testified, he noticed Dr. Condon engaged in conversation with some one in the cemetery. As he watched a man sud- denly scaled the 9-foot-high cemetery fence from the inside, leaped down, ran past Condon across the street into Van Cortlandt Park with Condon fol- lowing him. Presently he saw the two men reach a shack and sit down on a park bench | man, who told of seeing Hauptmann | driving & “dirty-green” car with & Jadder in it into the Lindbergh lane March 1, 1932, the day of the kid- naping. Then John Perrone, Bronx taxi driver, identified him as the man who! paid him $1 to deliver a ransom note to Jafsie. “You are = liar!” Hauptmann| | hissed, and Reilly said today -he would bring evidence to discredit the testimony. He announced also that three de- fense handwriting experts, two Ger- | mans and an Austrian, were sailing from Cherbourg to testify Hauptmann did not write the ransom notes. [ A New York detective, Arthur Johnson, also sails from Europe to- ;day, New York authorities said, bringing witnesses connected with the . case. i Denies Johnson to Appear. i Attorney General Wilentz denied | reports that Henry “Red” Johnson, i deported sailor friend of the Lind- | bergh nurse, Miss Betty Gow. was being brought back in an effort to ! repudiate defense attempts to show | he might have a guilty knowledge of the crime. The New York Daily News sald it has learned that Johnson would sail today and would testify in the case. { State authorities said they were “not_interested” in a statement by | | Charles Garrick, 29, of Whittier, Calif., ! iat Los Angeles, to Police Capt. H. J. i Wallis, that he recognized Haupt- {mann from photographs as one of | ! four persons in an automobile who! /gave him & ride near the Lindbergh estate the night of the crime. They said they were inclined to discount all such reports. FAHN£STOCK NEVER I TOOK TOTS TO LINKS, HIS WIFE COMPLAINS | (Continued From First Page.) not been in the water since the chil- dren were 4 and 3 years old. i “Do you think children of that age should have been taken sailing?” he ! inquired. | She replied that the children wanted 10 g0 and that she thought they should | | have been taken. Fahnesiock, she | | ad expressed the belief it was in- advisable, and would not take them. | She also objected to the fact that he had never taken them fishing. Says Letters Destroyed. | _Claude R. Branch, representing the husband, esked Mrs. Fahnestock why she had made frequent trips to New + York from Aiken while she had the | children in the latter place. The wife | replied she had gone to the metropo- ! lis to see her lawyer about obtaining & divorce. | "Is there not one person you saw a | great deal more than any other in New | York?" the attorney inquired. | Yes | “And have you received letters from | | that man?” i ! “Do you have them here?” | “No, I destroyed them. | destroy letters.” Branch, however, then read into the record a letter she admitted receiving | | from her husband last December 20. | I always | This letter expressed regret that she | had left him and declared his hope for ! a reconciliation. It also related Fahne- | stock’s affection for his children and his desire to have them with him for | Christmas. He stated in the letter that | he did not intend to let her take the { children permanently when she left him, bug only let them go in the hopef | their présence might induce her to re- | | turn, | | No Reply Made. The wife said she made no written | reply. At one point the wife was asked if she knew the age of Mrs. Fahne- | stock, sr. | “Yes. | Fannes | “The the wife replied, “Mrs. | ock is 75 years old.” i tter, sitting in the court room | beside her son, shook her head in | | vigorous denial. { The wife said her husband went with the children and her to church on Sundays when they were living together, but that he had seldom, if | ever, heard them say their prayers at ! night. She said she had been told the children had not been sayirg their prayers since they have been at the home of their grandmother. { Fahnestock, in asking the court to award him custody of, the children | charged his wife as admitting she was “infatuated with a certain man of prominence.” In an apparent effort to keep his name out of the case. counsel had referred to him through- out the hearing as “the man.” The request for a private hearing was made by Attorney Claude R. Branch, Prgvidence, R. 1., representing the husband. Branch told the court it would become necessary to present evidence which “will reflect very seri- ously upon Mrs. Fahnestock and an unnamed man with whom she is said | to be infatuated, and who is not a party to this proceeding.” i Says Windows Nailed. | Mrs. Fahnestock told of coming to | Washington with her father, and of going to the Massachusetts avenue home, where she was refused admit- | tance. 1 “The butler said the door would not open to me. I went around back | and found them nailing up the win- dows. I didn't know whether my children were there and became nerv- ous, fearing my husband would place them on a steamer for Europe, That was the reason I engaged detectives for the home. I was shadowed my- self by a man, who dogged my foot- steps from the moment I stepped off | the train.” | Mrs. Fahnestock then related how | she went to the house. after ob- taining a court order permitting her to see the children during the after- noon. H “I didn’t want to enter that house | myself, and did so only when I found | there was no other way to see my | children,” she declared. She said she was kept waiting at the front door 912 minutes on this ! occasion. Going back two days later, she said, she found the older child | was ill and not receiving what she | considered proper care. 'SMASH THATCOLD —before it starts | Don't sit back and hope that those sneezes won’t amount to | I THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., WEDNESDAY Condon Testimony Recalls Drawing of ““John,” CAF[ MAN CLAIMS Showing Likeness to Bruno Hauptmann Above are two sketches of “John,” the Lindbergh kidnaper. which James T. Berryman. sports cartoonist of The Star, drew. two months before Bruno Hauptmann's arrest, from a description given by Dr. John F. Condon. N CONNECTION with the appear- ance of Dr. John F. Condon as a prosecution witness against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, it was re- called here today that a verbal description of “John.” the kidnaper, which “Jafsie” gave from memory to James T. Berryman, Star sports car- toonist, enabled the artist to draw a portrait which proved to be a re- markable likeness of Hauptmann. ‘Two sketches which Berryman drew i{at Condon's home last July for the Division of Investigation of the De- partment of Justice—two months be- fore Hauptmann's arrest—are repro- Underneath for comparison are photographs of Haupt nn. duced herewith today. The originals now are in possession of the Depart- ment of Justice. . Berryman was commissioned by the Division of Investigation to confer with Condon in the Bronx and a tempt. from Condon's recollection of “John's” appearance. to put down on paper a portrait resembling as close- lv as possible the man to whom ~Jafsie” handed the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom. At that time Hauptmann had not been heard of in connection with the Lindbergh kidnaping. Division ofii- RUNNER SHOOTING 'LEWIS' COREY SIXTH CASE IS CONTINUED Jl’rosecution of Union Station Robbery Suspect to Await Victim's Recovery. The case egainst Ernest N. White, jr. 22, of 701 Fourth street, accused of shooting and robbing a Riggs Na- tional Bank runner at Union Station December 17, was continued until January 22 by Police Couit Judge Gus A. Schuldt today to allow Frank M. La Porte, the bank employe, who was robbed of $1,900, more time to recover from his wound and eppear in court. White's bond was fixed at £15,000. - Arraigned on a second charge— that of robbing the Atlas Liquor Store, 7 L street northeast, of $427 on Christmas eve—White was ordered | held for the grand jury under $10.000 bond. White was identified by La Porte: t Casualty Hospital Monday es the man who shot and robbed him. TOWN HALL SPEAKER **Economics of Communism" to Be Topic of Former Brookings Institute Fellow. Lewis Corey, economic historian and former fellow of the Brookings Institute, will be the speaker at the sixth meeting of the Town Hall of Washington at the Shoreham Hotel next Sunday night. Author of “The House of Morgan” | and regular contributor to the Amer- | jcan Mercury, the Nation and the New Republic, Corey will discuss “The Economics of Communism." This lecture will be the first of a series of three on the significant political forces in Europe today and will be followed by the usual panel discussion. The lecture will begin at 8 o'clock. Members of the panel will be an- nounced later in the week. cials admitted it was “just a 100-to-1 shot” that Berryman might be able to produce a likeness of the kidnaper. but the artist agreed (o undertake the unusual assignment. ‘The sketches which Berryman drew after several hours with Condon were pronounced by the latter: “The near- est likeness to John I've seen.” Copies of the drawings were given to mem- bers of bergh squad in New York City. When members of the squad finally ested Hauptmann they were struck with his sketches. similarity to the Berryma Attorney General Cummings, in & radio address, expressed his amaze- ment at the resemblance. The draw- ings were placed on exhibition at the Department of Justice. Phone NOrth 3609 J. EDW. CHAPMAN 37 N St. N.W. “Avoid Intestinal Fatigue Many people suffering from In- testinal Fatigue, commonly called Constipation, do not know what it is to feel good. One or two E-Z Tablets for a day or two are just what these people need. 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Authorities in New Jersey, where Hauptmann is on trial, sald they were “Inclined to discount” such stories and~ were not interested in the statement | |of the Whittier, Calif,, restaurant proprietor. Rebuft Surprises Police. Police i0ok Garrick’s statement last night after receiving information that | *he knows something about the Lind- bergh case.” The said the reason | he had not given authorities the in- | | formation before this was that he did | not want to be taken from his family | the division's special Lind- ' in California. | Detective Capt. Hubert J. Wailis of | the homicide detail gave full credit io | Garrick’s statements. He said he was | surprised that New Jersey suthorities | appear disinterested. Garrick said he lived on the John 3 miles from Hopewell. | the machine, he said, were two women and two men. one of whom he said he | “certain” was Hauptmann. 1 know Hauptmann was one of the | men in the front seat from pictures in | the newsphpers and the fact he spoke with a German ent,” Garrick said. “And this m: Hauptmann, asked me | where the road branched off that to the Lingbergh home.” e | The sutomobile in which the four | persons were riding, Garrick re- counted, was a black, or dark blue (Chrysler) touring car with New York ticense plates. He said he was given the ride around 3 or 4 p.m. Garyick said he would be willing to return to New Jersey to aid the prose- cution of Hauptmann provided his ex- Ppenses were paid. | ROBBERS TAKE $2,350 | IN CASH AND GOODS More than $2,350 in cash and | property was obtained last night in | hoid-ups and thefts from homes and | autemobiles. In an attempted hold- |up Mrs. Sally Shea, 50, of 1006 Douglas street northeast was choked and spattered with mud by as- sailant who fled when she screamed. Mrs. Shea told police she was at | Tenth street and Rhode Island ave- nue northeast when a man asked the way to Hyattsville and, before | she had time to respond, grabbed her and threw mud in her face. The | man left in an automobile occupied by another man when she called for help. Jewelry, clothing and medicines, valued at $1.545, were reported stolen from the automobile of Edward C. Wilson, Buck Hill Falls, Pa. while | the machine was parked in the 1600 | block of Twenty-ninth street, where he is staying. o my thinking he had such an air— **% A—S Jersey’s Case Held Weakened By Use of Surprise Witness Hochmuth’s Testimony Expected for Days—Kathleen Norris Assails Lawoyers for Trial Tricks. BY KATHLEEN NORRIS, FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 9 (N.ANA)—The State attorneys sprang the much-heralded surprise witness on the Hauptmann defense. and I confess they—or rather their witness—surprised me, too. The “sur- prise” was no more a surprise than | the “incog” of visiting royalty really means an incognito. Rumors, mur- murs, expectation of this witness had been rumbling about the court for! days; most of us knew what he was going to say, and he said it We had guessed and heard and pieced tigether the idea that this old man—almost 87 he is, and he lives in & farm house on a New Jersey country road—would assert that, on the morn- ing of March 1, 1932, he saw a man driving & shabby green motor car past his house, that the man almost got into difficulties on the turn of the road that is right there, and that the man was Bruno Richard Hauptmann The witness, Amandus Hochmuth, was slmost too feeble physically to speak. It seemed to me that the prosecution made an unfortunate move in placing this old man on the stand, and that the defense profited visibly. Answered Hesitatingly. Me had the air of & person—at least to what he must say and what he must not say. He answered hesitatingly | and cautiously. It was when he de- nied baving told any one in advance what he was to say on the stand that I lost my breath, and with it all con- fidence in him, for 1—the merest spec- tator of this fantastic scene that is unrolling before our eyes in the Flem- ington County Court House—had heard practically all his testimony reported as long ago as Friday, almost word for word. The way law act sometimes seems strange to women. They bring the heat of competition into what should be merely the dispassionate processes of the law Sitting in this New Jersey court room, where a young German car- penter is on trial for his life. one wishes that the processes of the law were a little simpler. Trial by jury and the accustomed proceedings of counsel on both sides represent generations of painful evo- lution, all aimed toward one thing— civic honesty. The basic idea is and always has been to discover the truth, and 1o give the accused man a chance to be vindicated and exonerated if he is innocent. Job to Discover Truth. We are not here in this Hauptmann case to trap, befuddle, outwit or confuse any witness: presumably we are here to discover the truth. The defense is to present a view of such facts as help to prove the prisoner’s innocence: the prosecution is obliged to make sure that the State does not free a dangerous criminal. The judge and the jury have their equal re- sponsibilities to view the proceedings with an unbiased mind and to render verdicts as honst as their knowledge will permit. Isn’t that all there is to it? Why, then. are lawyers permitted to dawdle over irrelevant testimony. to put on “trick” witnesses. to harass well-meaning, simple folk almost into insanity on the stand? A case is surely only as strong or as weak as the truth makes it. When Amandus Hockmuth went | down into the court and placed his trembling old band on Bruno Rich- ard Hauptmann, identifying him as the driver of the aforementioned motor car and the custodian of “whei looked like a ladder,” my credulity was strengthened to the bursiing point—and I am a gullible woman They say that he said, “I'm sorry for you” to Hauptmann. Personally 1 felt a little sense of surprise—or was it regret?—that the prosecution. with so strong a case already indicated against Hauptmann, must vet reach for such a weak prop. Whether Amandus Hockmutn realiy saw’ Hauptmann on that March morning we don't know. He mav honestly believe he did. But it is hard to credit him when he savs he did not confide the nature of his testimony to some one—possibly to many persons—days before he was called upon to give it. If that tesii- mony of his really surprised t attorney general and his assistant then they knew less about this case Friday than I did One doesn't want to be hard on & fellow creature of 87. Rut “ny do we have to have this sort of thing | instructed and warned beforehand a8 | ip g court room? There is a guarded- ness. a weariness about soms of these witnesses that indicates fear. rear of what? Simple afraid. (Copyright 1915 by Nor:h Newspaper Alliance. Inc ) truth ought not t oe Ameriean Bombay Police Slay 7 Moslems. BOMBAY. January 9 (#).—Seven Moslems were killed and 20 injured today in Ajra. in the State of Ichal- karanji. when police fired into a crowd of 300 Moslems attempting to prevens the arrest of one of their compatriots. 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