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Show The Long Arm of Justice Americans were thrilled to hear of the arrest of a man named Hauptmann in New York and to leairn tsat the police had found over thirteen thousand dollars of tne ransom money paid by Colonel Lindberg in 1932 for the return of his kidnapped child. Thirty months had parsed since the heart-breaking ciime but at length justice seems about to reach those guilty of the death of the little boy. During the many months which passed since the discovery of the dead body of the little boy every once in a while one of the bills turned up, dist'nguished by th? number it bore. Most of the'e bills were small, in five ahd ten dollar denominations, but la,' few weWs ago one of the twenty-dollar gold certificates was found in a bank, traced back to a shoe store, and officials still seeking to run down the guilty parties realized that her 3 was a possibility of finding who had some of this money. Notice was given to many storekeepers and business men in the neighborhood to be on the watch, and to make some record of any person passing such bills. Anally, a second twentyj-dtallar gold certificate turned up in a ba:ik. It hadl been deposited by the operator oper-ator of a filling station, who had taken the precaution to copy the license number of the car of the man who had used it to pay for some supplies. The police in this -way, by tracing the automobile license number, found the mar., watched him, and subsequently arrested him. When they searched his garage $13,750 was found in two hiding places all bills delivered by Dr. J. F. Condon to the supposeu agent of the kidnappers. There is a lot of consolation in the discovery of Hauptmann. From the standpoint of Dr. J. F. Condon it is reassuring. This man was the unfortunate go-between, who obtained ob-tained the $50,000 frcm Col. Lindberg, Lind-berg, met a representative of the kidnappers in a graveyard, and delivered de-livered the money. Nothing followed, fol-lowed, and afterwards the baby was found dead. In some quarters sus-pision sus-pision was directed against the Doctor; in others he was pictured as a gullible fellow who had been taken by a bunch of crooks trying to capitalize the crime, althougn the marks of identification handed Dr. Condon seemed to indicate that he was in touch with the real kd-nappers. kd-nappers. Through the years which followed Dr. Condon has given many hours to his individual efforts ef-forts to discover and punish the group whoso brutally swindled him. |