RANSOM MONEY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 306, 22 September 1934, Page 7

RANSOM MONEY

Kidnapping of tKe ■ Lindbergh Baby

ARREST OF SUSPECT Betrayed by Tendering Gold Certificate •By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received September 21, 7.30 p.m.) New York, September 20. Bernard Richard Hauptmann, of New York City, has been arrested as the receiver of the 50,000-dollar ransom money paid by Colonel C. A. Lind bergh in a fruitless effort to recover his infant son kidnapped on March 1, 1932. The authorities recovered 13.750 dollars of the ransom money. Police-Commissioner John F. O’Ryan stated that Hauptmann was arrested on Wednesday and the recovered ransom money was found in his garage. The commissioner said- he believed the arrest would solve the kidnapping mystery. Two persons had Identified Hauptmann as the receiver of the money.

Suspicion pointed to Hauptmann when be passed a ten-dollar gold certificate at a petrol station, as all such currency has been called in by the Treasury under the gold nationalisation proclamation. Justice Department officials disclos-. ed to-night that Hauptmann’s handwriting tallied with that on the ransom notes. '

Hauptmann, who is 35 years of age, is a carpenter by trade who entered the United States in 1923 as a stowaway while on parole from a German prison. His wife and nephew. Hans Mueller, also are held for questioning. There was an unconfirmed report that the automobile driven by Hauptmann on the day of his arrest was identified as one stolen In New Jersey the day before the kidnapping. The police confirmed the.fact of its theft, but would make no statement on the date it was stolen. Ransom bills of a total value of '3,750 were discovered cached In the floor and window-sill of the garage of Hauptmann's home in the Bronx.

WATCHED FOR WEEKS

Accused “Identified Positively”

(Received September 20, 7.40 p.m.)

New York, September 20. Dr. Condon, who was among those at the police station, and Commissioner O’Ryan said Hauptmann was identified positively as the recipient of the ransom money in the cemetery. If was presumed that Dr. Condon made the identification. Hauptmann was also identified later by John Peronne, a taxi-driver, as a man who gave him a note to deliver to the Condon home.

Hauptmann had been closely watched since he paid for gasoline nt a filling station several weeks ago: with a gold certificate, which was identified by a serial number as part of the ransom money. ....... i ■

Hauptmann has a son eleven months old.