Show r t. t I IS' IS s Long Quest Apparently Near End EndA ApP A v R Retired tired Educator Scans Hundreds of Faces Faces' and Meets M Many Disappointments j NEW Ew YORK Sept 21 CAP quest of the Lindbergh ransom reaper ran swiftly to clos close day A strange Teutonic symbol marked on aletter led Dr John P. P Con- Con Cond d the case and duped him Into tossing over oyer over 8 a Bronx cemetery wan wall to a 0 man known as John cven John ven while the baby W was dead From that time the old year old ar-old retired re reo tired educator pursued the kidnapers on his own Initiative s scanning ann ng hundreds hun G of Gt laces faces meeting as' as many disappointments disappointments dis disappointments appointments but never l losing sing confidence con fid iid nce that one day he would again nie meet t John Last rast night he faced laced Bruno Richard Hauptmann ann an unemployed loyed German carpenter from his own Bronx and Police Commissioner ioner ORyan announced an an- the man was identified as the one to to whom the ransom money was paid It n Iv was not announced that Doctor C Condon Identified him only him only that he was was' singled out by witnesses as the ransom ransom recipient recipient but but it was assumed assumed as- as that Doctor Condon was meant The aged educator saw Ha Hauptmann At the police station yesterday afternoon after noon and again at the Bronx county courthouse last night b but t it was was learned that he had no not identified the man as as' as John Neither had he saId aId positively that H Hauptmann m was lot cot the man n to whom ha- ha h gave the ther r ransom mon money 4 co Confronts Suspect f Only two weeks ago ago today r Condon had viewed a a. suspect s at at- athis his home It was not John Johnn ff It was the thelast thelast last time the doctor confronted a pe t before he saw Hauptmann Hauptm A series of startling events swept Doctor i Condon into the Lindbergh case cue as as an intermediary and brought him im into contact with persons established to be the actual kidnap kidnapers rs It was soon after the that Doctor Condon aroused by the crime announced through the Bronx H Home News that he would add 1000 to the I ransom money it if the child were returned H He ITe received re a mysterious telephone call from a man who told him the hUd child would b be ret returned and asked him to act as ak intermediary His suspicions sus sus- aroused the the doctor doctor told bid to the theman theman man man to write writ him a aletter letter The letter came and was wasa a letter to Col Colonel nel Lindbergh Doctor Condon called the their colonel their first cont contact contact and and told him of the letter Colonel Lindbergh asked him to open the letter and r read ad it to him Work of Same Man lan ManIt It Il was recognized at once as the work of the s same me man who pinned the n note te on the baby's crib at Hopewell Hope Hop well N J. J It bore the saip same handwriting handwriting hand hand- writing p picked up the the trend of th the ransom note and note and carried the same r This is symbol two symbol two overlapping cir cir cir- ci cles in the center of each ach a square hole hole i hole gave gave ve evidence of having been copied from the diagram used in hi the ori original inal note Colonel Lindbergh stirred b by the discovery discover asked that the letter be brought to his New Jersey home at once Doctor Condon drove there that night and the authenticity of the letter was established d in a conference con coq ference with investigators rs Colonel Lindbergh gave Doctor Condon a letter authorizing him to act as his intermediary and to pay over the ransom when he was wa satisfied that thal he was dealing with the kidnapers Next Link Unk The next link in m the chain was a aletter aletter aletter letter to Doctor Condon bearing the same symbol advising him how to communicate with the kidnapers outlining out out- lir lining ng how the money money would d be paid and the b baby by returned The PIe kidnapers ordered him to repy reply re reo re- re ply py by newspaper advertisements and nd in signing si ing them coined he the n l name e the t ep n U il tIn of ot his initials J J. J F F. F C. C C.- C. and C.-and and nd it was vas b by this this' ri name ime mc that hat he became known in the negotiations Doctor Condon asked for a meeting meeting meet meet- ing with the kidnapers and the writers writers writers writ writ- ers of or the letters agreed He was advised to stay in his home a certain I number of cO ev I One of those nights a a taxi driver cameto came to to the door with a note advising ad ad- Doctor Condon to go to the end of the Jerome avenue subway about a mile and a half away and gave him just time to hurry there for the rendezvous 1 Follows Follow Instructions Under a stone on th the porch of of- ofa a vacant refreshment stand at one end of ot the Woodlawn cemetery in inthe the Bronx the letter advis advised d him he would find further directions Doctor r Condon Condori- followed instructions A note und under r the st stone ne told him to togo togo tojo go jo joo o 10 o a street at the other end of the cemetery and wait there This he ic did and 10 minutes later a man passed la later ter thought lobe iob e the finger inger fingerman nan man man because soon afterward Doctor Condon saw aw another man within the closed gates of t the he cemetery r rHe He approached the g gate te starting to converse with this man but immediately immediately immediately imme- imme the doctor saw still another man in the background and d asked the man an kat at the gate if il he was a friend 4 With a a startled look look the man man at it t looked back and then leaped over the fence and into the woods w woods of Van Co Cortlandt park across acrs s the street The doctor followed follow d him liin n and persuaded per per- su ded him to sit lIt with him on a bench by a in the th park There covering one oe one another with pistols pisto In itt their p pockets they sat for foran foran foran an hour and a quarter 4 Agree rree to Send Sleep Sleepers Sleepers' rs' rs Doctor Condon insisted that he be betaken betaken betaken taken to the child chUd but the man said It was impossible and agreed instead as as' proof they had the child to send him the She baby's sleeping leeping sleeping suit Five or six sloe days later latet the suit freshly laundered arrived at the Condon home home mailed mailed from rom Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn Lindbergh rushing to the the house iden Identified fied the suit as his childs There was a further exchange of communications and the kidnapers becoming impatient lifted their ransom ransom ran ran- som demands to declaring that if it was not paid within withla a certain certain c tain thin period it would be increased sed to and doubled a month later Doctor Condon was opposed to paying the ransom but he and Colonel Colonel Colo Cob nd nel Lindbergh Lindberg were won over by bythe bythe bythe the pleas oT Mrs Lindbergh An advertisement ad ad- was v Inserted Money inserted Money is ready ready and and Doctor Condon again received received re re- re instructions to remain at t home Meet In Cemetery A messenger then came by night ordering him to go g to East Fremont road and there to find further his in In- s Doctor Condon ob obeyed and with Colonel Lindbergh driving the car met John in St. St Raymonds Raymond's cemetery After Alter inducing ind him to accept instead of the he dropped the money over the wall That was April 2 1932 In return the man the than the same with whom Doctor C Condon had talked before be be- fore gave fore gave him a receipt and Instructions Instructions instructions In in- how ho to 10 find the baby Those Instructions were The liThe boy is on boad bead boat Nelly It is a small boad 28 feet long Two persons are on the boad bead They are arc innocent You will find the boad between between be be- tween Horseneck beach and Gay GayHead GayHead Head near Elizabeth island Colonel Lindbergh flew to Gay GayHead GayHead Head Mass and searched for two days But the boat never was found Doctor Condon abandoned his lectures lectures lec lee tures at Fordham university and two other colleges to to take up the pursuit pursuit pursuit pur pur- suit of John John the the pursuit that apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap is ended |