Show jO MISSING MAN LINKED WITH KIDNAP CASE III t Officials Regard New Clue Clu Clua a ain aa Important in V Investigation tion f. f fir Dr tuo Associated Press v Katherine 27 ri NEW YORK Sept 27 K Maurer 0 of ok St. St Anns Ann's avenue the tho Bronx today today- appealed to District t Attorney Samuel X office fO fc for assistance in locating her husband h nd John who wh she said had disappeared since the case caSc against Bruno Richard Bichar t Hauptmann broke jj Mrs Maurer was vas in the district attorneys attorneys attorney's at attorneys torney's office oUke only a short tim time when she left in company with Henry Leslie of the department of ot justice bureau of identification arid Ch Charles rles Frank New a. a New York rork City de dc- As she left the office she was heard to say I 1 w want want want-to to go home The said she told them her husband knew Hauptmann Hauptm n and that the prisoner knew her het husband Leslie said that he and the the Bronx prose prosecutors prosecutor's office regarded V Mrs Maurer's information on as Important Hauptmann Attorney Threatened Threaten d by Death NEW YORK Sept 27 UP UI-J UI James UP-James m mes s M. M Fawcett attorney for Bruno Richard Rich ard Hauptmann Lindbergh kidnap kidnap- i Ing irig g suspect announced today taday that h hhas ho hohas hohas has been threatened with death un unless un less he lie withdraws as defense altos's altor ney While e authorities draw tighter tighter the the chain of circumstantial evidence evidence Unk link link- ing lag Hauptmann with the actual kid kid- naping the suspect pleaded not g nty when arraigned in Bronx county court today on a charge ot of ext extorting extorting- from Dr John F. F Cond Condon n Lindbergh ransom negotiator His RL bail baU was wa set at 1 Fawcett demanded that baU bani b fixed at so H Hauptmann can an anbe be free t to help me in my F Fawcett had claimed pr previous previously ly that he had new evidence which would clear his client Deny pen Evidence Weak New v Jersey officials intimated d they would wait until Hauptm Hauptmann nn nD h had d been tried in New York before mOVe moving moving ing for his extradition to that state wh where rC he will face ac trial for murder and They that to force th the issue b because ause of ot lack of conclusive evidence b by byre revealing re re- evidence involving Hauptmann Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann in in the actual crime tb ysa d was strong enough to justify extradition tion lion and trial x J. J Edgar Hoover head of the ed eral division of criminal investigation tion lion was prepared at a moments moment's nOtice notice notice no nO- tice to leave Washington W for NewYork New v NewYork York in anticipation of f the imminent nent neat arrest of Hauptmann's alleged accomplice in hi the crime Federal agents were were understood to 10 have Wi- Wi covered new ew trails traUs leading dir directly UY to the supposed accomplice x Threatened Twice Fawcett said that someone had bad telephoned hi his office twice to 10 threat threat- threaten aten at- at en him unless he withdrew from the defense He also reported re receiving eivin threatening letters Workmen under the direction of detectives continued dissecting the Hauptmann home and ga garage ag today hopeful of ot finding additional evidence Yesterday t they the i found Cound more of the ransom money concealed in augur holes bringing to a to total l. l of the rans ransom l money found In in Hauptmann's pos pas s session It was was believed that Hauptmann Haupt- Haupt m mann nn an expert carpenter could uld have constructed I innumerably l. of r SLEUTHS SLEUTHS' HUNT MISSING MAN Officials ls Regard New Clue Clu as Important in Lindbergh I Investigation Continued from Page Pare One Olle these caches In the the two buildings Yesterdays Yesterday's discovery allowed detectives detectives de de- de to show that Hauptm Hauptmann nn possesses pos or has possessed a total of more than since April 2 2 1932 when Dr Condon paid the ransom to the mysterious John Check on FInances A summary of Ha Hauptmann's fh fi 11 finances nances Present assets of Hauptmann and Mrs Mis Hauptmann Hauptmann's losses In stock market market mar mar- ket speculations Ransom Hansom money found in Hauptmann's Haupt Haupt- manns mann's garage Ransom bills spent in places Hauptmann's supposed loan to his friend Isidor Fisch Persons close to Colonel Lindbergh who was w s a a witness before the grand jury yest h to see and talk to the prisoner but had decided to wait until he could do so without creating a sensation His attitude was understood to be bene one ne of let the tho law take its course but felt feU it his duty to see the suspect Lookout Sought Lindbergh ac Dr Condon Condon Con don to the cemetery where the ransom ran ran- som sour was paid and saw sawa a man not the mysterious John who seemed to b be acting as a lookout In the same cache where yesterdays yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yester yester- days day's money was found was a tiny automatic pistol of ot German Gennan make Authorities immediately sought to connect the caliber 25 weapon with the crime Dr Charles H. H Mitchell county physician of ot Mercer county New Jers Jersey y where the baby's body was was found said it was possible that a bullet from a n small caliber pistol made nade the abnormal opening found Behind the left ear of ot the body Witnesses Found New Jersey authorities an in insisting they would extradite Hauptmann eventually disclosed they had three witnesses who had identified d Hauptmann Haupt Haupt- mann mann nann as the man they saw near the Lindbergh Hopewell home the day before the Hauptmann will face a maximum term terni erm of 20 years imprisonment if convicted of ot extortion in New York state He would face the death penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty i if tried for or murder in New Jersey Attempted Suicide Linked inked With g CAMBRIDGE Mass Sept 27 UP John John L. L Bauer who swallowed poison poi poi- son on late yesterday and predicted that he ic would die within 20 hours hours- was questioned by state detectives this afternoon in connection with the Lindbergh case Questioning of the would-be would suicide resulted from an Fin anonymous telephone telephone tele- tele phone hone call made by a woman today to o the office of District Attorney Warren Warren War War- ren L. L Bishop of Middlesex county The woman said Bauer was the Bauer Hauer mentioned in inthe the Lindbergh case the case the man overheard discussing the he case with Bruno R. R Hauptmann in n a New York speakeasy Bauer branded her story absurd 1 Prosecutor Declares Hauptmann Kidnaper NEW YORK Sept 27 i District JP-District District Attorney Samuel J. J Foley today expressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed the belief that Bruno Richard Rich and ard Hauptmann was the man who went up the ladder to the nursery in n the Lindbergh home the night the baby was Previously Foley was said by Charles F Brodie chief clerk in the Bronx district attorneys attorney's office to have lave said he believed there was more than nan one kidnaper and that Hauptmann Hauptmann Hauptmann Haupt mann was among the kidnapers |