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...elegant Paris law office young Count René de Chambrun, son of the French Ambassador to Italy, swiveled around last week to face a reporter. "Miss Elsa Sittell is very religious," said he. "She was once a choir singer in a Bronx Catholic church. She is very conscientious and it is her habit to say what she thinks. She is of a nervous temperament. "We are doing everything we can." continued Count René. "I have appealed to the French Foreign Office and to the American Ambassador...
...witnesses will be many. First on the list is Col. Lindbergh. He will swear that he recognized the voice of Hauptmann as the one which called "Hey, doctor, over here, doctor!" the night that he and Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon passed the $50,000 ransom over a Bronx cemetery wall in a vain attempt to get the baby back. About all Nurse Gow can say is that she did not see the kidnapper. Joseph Perrone, a New York taxicab driver, will identify Hauptmann as the man who gave him a dollar to take the message to Dr. Condon which...
...Condon the sleeping suit worn by the baby on the night of the abduction. 5 ) Hauptmann did only a few days' work after March 1932, yet lived in mod est luxury. 6) The ladder by which the kidnapper entered the nursery was made of wood from a Bronx lumber yard where Haupt mann once worked and from which he subsequently bought supplies, and the nails in it were similar to nails in the garage which Hauptmann built himself. 7) Messrs. Condon, Lindbergh and Per rone can in one way or another identify Hauptmann with the crime. 8) The crime...
...Thousands of people bought lumber from the Bronx lumber yard. Thousands more could buy such nails as were found in the ladder...
Last week a committee of the Bronx County Medical Society begged New York State for a complete socialization of Medicine. What they wanted was a system whereunder every citizen would get free medical attention and every physician would get a steady State job. The Bronxmen have seen colleagues go hungry and vacate their offices because onetime patients, no longer able to afford private practice, now go to free clinics and hospitals. No one has ever counted how many U. S. doctors work for wages or calculated how much it would cost to hire them all. The Bronxmen figured that...