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...Lindberghs identified as the one worn by their child the night of his abduction. The fact that the child's body was found without the sleeping garment led police to believe that the man to whom "Jafsie" Condon gave $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money, in a Bronx cemetery on April 2, represented the actual kidnappers and killers. Mr. Condon described this man, said he "could pick him out of a thousand." The district attorney of The Bronx prepared to call a grand jury and set out to find that...
Identified last week as Col. Lindbergh's intermediary with the kidnappers was Dr. John F. Condon, an elderly lecturer at Fordham University in The Bronx. Dr. Condon it was who inserted the 13 "personal" advertisements in New York newspapers signed "Jafsie" (J. F. C.) whereby communication was maintained with the baby-snatchers. These advertisements referred to "ready money" and a "principal" who had to be "satisfied," with "the real articles," promised to "follow your instructions" and insisted on a "C. O. D." transaction. On April 2 Dr. Condon delivered the ransom money to the kidnappers' agent with whom contact...
...take what the newspapers say too seriously. This attitude I believe to be indefensible; the principles involved in the present situation are of enormous importance to the future of international relations, and no one with any intelligence can afford to sit smugly back and send forth occasional Bronx cheers...
Joseph Jacobs, housepainter of The Bronx, N. Y. and his wife Sallie named their baby Norma Depression Jacobs...
Into the elephant house of the Bronx-Zoo one day last week wandered a newshawk of the New York Sun. He buttonholed Keeper Walter Thuman. Said the newsman to Zooman Thuman: "What most annoys you here?'' Zooman Thuman to the newsman: "Balls are what I fear." Mourned Keeper Thuman: "Footballs, baseballs, tennis balls, golf balls, ping-pong balls, billiard balls, marbles-they're all bad for elephants. But the worst are those ordinary rubber balls that children bounce. They bounce them near the cages. The elephants gulp them down. Then they get sick." A hard rubber ball...