Post by Rita Witt on Oct 15, 2010 21:41:55 GMT -5
There are so many lettle pieces of information that raise new questions that back then may have seemed insignificant.
From the article below there are two men who used a kidnap gold certificate to buy a piece of plywood from a lumber yard. Samuelson the cabinet maker who made the ransom boxmaker, and friend of Dr Condon, and also the ladder maker, also said two men picked up the kidnap ladder from his cabinet shop. This evidence was hidden by Wilentz since he had Samuelson listed as a prosecution witness he never called to the witness stand.
Article with License number different than Hauptmann's using a $5.00 dollar gold certificate.
17. I notice on pages 209-210 of Waller's book, “Kidnap,” that someone tried to buy a small piece of lumber in the Bronx with a (Lindbergh?) $10 gold note. Supposedly, the license plate number was written down, but whose was it?
Ans: On "Feb. 14, 1934" (around 11 am), two men entered the Cross, Austin and Ireland Lumber Co. at 118 E. 149th Street and attempted to buy a quarter-inch panel of plywood (24" by 48") for forty cents. When this met with resistance from secretary/cashier Alice Murphy, they paid with coins and pocketed her singles from a substituted $5 bill, but never returned for the board. Foreman William Reilly was suspicious [he said] of even the smaller denomination (“[it might be] counterfeit money”), and he recorded the car's plate: “4U 13-41”; his story appeared in the NY Times, Oct 3, 1934, on p. 5. Anthony Scaduto's book Scapegoat does not mention the license plate detail on either p. 174 or p. 396, although both witnesses referred to it in their Statements to the Bronx DA. Arthur Koehler's article in the Saturday Evening Post, April 20, 1935, however, dates the lumberyard visit to Dec 14, 1933. If Koehler is correct, Hauptmann's license was 3U 36-24 at that time. It is possible that "2/14" was misread for "12/14" or several visits were involved (and Koehler/Bornmann were not present during the transaction). On Nov 20, 1934, Koehler returned to the yard to explore this discrepancy, but could not (it was not cited at the Trial).
Articles
www.lindytruth.org/Lindy1.htm
From the article below there are two men who used a kidnap gold certificate to buy a piece of plywood from a lumber yard. Samuelson the cabinet maker who made the ransom boxmaker, and friend of Dr Condon, and also the ladder maker, also said two men picked up the kidnap ladder from his cabinet shop. This evidence was hidden by Wilentz since he had Samuelson listed as a prosecution witness he never called to the witness stand.
Article with License number different than Hauptmann's using a $5.00 dollar gold certificate.
17. I notice on pages 209-210 of Waller's book, “Kidnap,” that someone tried to buy a small piece of lumber in the Bronx with a (Lindbergh?) $10 gold note. Supposedly, the license plate number was written down, but whose was it?
Ans: On "Feb. 14, 1934" (around 11 am), two men entered the Cross, Austin and Ireland Lumber Co. at 118 E. 149th Street and attempted to buy a quarter-inch panel of plywood (24" by 48") for forty cents. When this met with resistance from secretary/cashier Alice Murphy, they paid with coins and pocketed her singles from a substituted $5 bill, but never returned for the board. Foreman William Reilly was suspicious [he said] of even the smaller denomination (“[it might be] counterfeit money”), and he recorded the car's plate: “4U 13-41”; his story appeared in the NY Times, Oct 3, 1934, on p. 5. Anthony Scaduto's book Scapegoat does not mention the license plate detail on either p. 174 or p. 396, although both witnesses referred to it in their Statements to the Bronx DA. Arthur Koehler's article in the Saturday Evening Post, April 20, 1935, however, dates the lumberyard visit to Dec 14, 1933. If Koehler is correct, Hauptmann's license was 3U 36-24 at that time. It is possible that "2/14" was misread for "12/14" or several visits were involved (and Koehler/Bornmann were not present during the transaction). On Nov 20, 1934, Koehler returned to the yard to explore this discrepancy, but could not (it was not cited at the Trial).
Articles
www.lindytruth.org/Lindy1.htm