| Show Walter Winchell Winchel BROADWAY GOSSIP ON THE LINDBERGH DRAMA That alleged letter and concision confession confession con by a dying convict t the other day ay may b be in the hands of Bruno o Hauptmann's defense counselors but it sent the insiders on on the case e Into stitches Latches and laughter convulsions Even Mr Reilly Hauptmann's attorney attorney ney ey probably was angry with those f his staff who h had d it published in inthe inthe the tie gazettes gazettes for for he i is not notTa nota a sap by any ny means The prize imaginative feats eats throughout the case have case have come from rom prisoners and cons ex-cons of ot the nation nation nation-it if that is we except a n few lew real cal and a few private detect detectives 5 The he most amusing of these fables tl that at weve we've wasted time listening to lo concerns one Fred ored Tompkins of this city ity who tried vainly to Interest the federals while serving his last few lew months month in Leavenworth When Freddie Fred Fred- die lie was released from Uncle S Sams Sam's ms m's hoosegow there he came straight to New Jew York and began bothering the editors of or pas papers enand and news wire s services ser ser- r- r vices His story was was that a German GermanS acrobat an n Australian and arid a power power- S ful ui dwarf did the crime the crime the dwarf I he ie whispered doing the actual stealing steal steal- tag ing ng of the baby He claimed all had hat escaped to foreign n lands Pardon I our long Jong yawn I I To date neither Joan Lo Lowell ell the authoress nor that new photographer pher her who w was with her have attempted attempted at at- tempted to give any of us the fun full details of ot their wondrous discoverY discover during the height of the search for lor nearby jack apple-jack distillers who might have done the to scare Lindy out of the neighborhood Back of ot an abandoned shack in inthe inthe the he near Hopewell they found a a. a new but freshly laundered laun laun- des ed diaper hanging conspicuously on a none too old clothesline The pictures of it all and the article that Joan Joan wrote about her find lind made good copy however copy however at th the time There was wasa a a lot of horsing around like that that that-by by the less Jess ones ones- getic but highly imaginative mem- mem men mem Der bers of our great fraternity the estate But none went vent quite that far shall we we say from HopewelL The stories the theother other day revealing Brunos Bruno's prison rec record rd in Germany got ot by the editorialists who certainly certain rt Iy ly might have shown up this angle His Ells record shows that once at th the point of a gun he held up mothers who were pushing carts go-carts carts and and and h he robbed them of their food tickets And yet there are some sympathizers sympathizer here who contend Hauptmann Hauptman couldn't possibly have murdered the th Lindbergh child because he be has hasson as a ason ason son of ot his own Well any person who could steal relief food tickets from babies might be guilty of any any- thing Jersey troopers led by In Inspector Walsh descended on Jafs e Dr Condon after Cler the baby's body had hac been found and cremated The They bullied him for th three days days and and Im fm Implied plied pIled continuously that he had no been on the up and with lt For Forti month after that that Dr Condo Condon hated all c cops ps and got ot v verbally vio violent yb- yb lent at every mention of ot Walsh name name And heres here's another fact never before before before be be- fore published Ins Inspector Walsh kid kic Dr Condon in Trenton fo for two hours one night nIght and and gave him the shaking up trying t to get more more information Walsh who is is' Frank Hagues Hague's chief chic poll watcher was made a master mastermind mastermind mind by the Democratic state leader of Jersey in the early days of th the case He and not Colonel Schwarz Schwarz- kopf did whatever actual detecting was done by the N N. J. J authorities Several veral months months' after the baby's bod body was found and the N. N Y cops bi became became be- be came convinced that the ransom co collector collector col col- lector lived in the Bronx a series o of inside stories stories' about the case began bega to appear in a Jersey City pa paper paper- runder r- r under Walsh's autograph These Thes articles articles' ceased abruptly when the N N. N S I I Y Y police dept made a Ii formal forma corn com plaint stating that publication of of such tories was Int Interfering with the search Early In the case they would have you rou believe one of the phone callers to o the police department in New NewYork NewYork Nework York ork was an attorney who urged them not to waste time searching for criminals This obviously is the job ot of I a a novice he is is' said to have de dc- dared clued Today he is on the Still stall of f the defense counsel w we are told S 'S I must mint ask Mr Reilly Here are Ii g few amusing episodes In n the case some sonic occurring on the original s i gene ene ne and ind the the others re re- Colonel Colon was Immense Immense- ly y impressed by the name and reputation tation alion of Floyd Gibbons He sidestepped side side- stepped his strict ruling and permitted permit permit- ted ed Floyd to come come up to 10 o the Lind bergh herA house howe for a personal gation This was di directly ec lY after Floyd noyd returned from China a. A rival paper cross the street t decided d that thai here was wu a splendid opportunity to to em em- barrass harrass 5 the p police chief chiet and imme wired him Our Out Mr Som- Som mere mera has hag also Just returned from the Chinese wars ars an and we we expect the same ame courtesy courtey to to be shown him at your earliest convenience Much to the astonishment of the newspapers pers per's cr's editors replied Ill Til expect your Mr Sommers Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese correspondent at 10 a. a a. a m m. tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow Marty Sommers Sommer unaware unaware un un- un aware of or all this manipulating had to be hastily summoned d from his va vacation vacation va cation spot in the Catskills miles Then there was the time lime the Graphic sent a small army of reporters re- re porters to dig up a cemetery near Trenton on a tip that the baby had been buried there therel I They actually dug up graves A small fortune was wu spent by the American whose reporters tou toured me underworlds of ot various cities with Al Capones Capone's brother seeking to establish a contact with the supposed sup sup- supposed I posed snatch mobsters Capone of of t course figured if it his kin helped find the he child hed he'd be pardoned The Herald Tribune regretfully admitted that hat Curtis the hoax man had haden been jeen en propositioned for an exclusive I story and photos when he he found the baby Then there was the time that professional pro pro- gamblers and sharpens moved into HoPewell and took over the newspaper lads for more than before the cops requested th the dice men to scram Even Event m my alma mater the Mirror was clipped for for inside information from a sleuth Three other papers were we-re swindled b by the same bum Paynter Hank of the Journal hired a trapper named Bush for tor a day days trek through the the- in search of tb the thi kid To protect themselves from r m the cold they lugged Juned along a gallon of apple apple- jack They returned three days later wi without hout the kidnapers and without without with with- out the jug 1 r |
