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During this time, John F. Condon – a well-known Bronx personality and retired school teacher – offered $1,000 if the kidnapper would turn the child over to a Catholic priest. Condon received a letter reportedly written by the kidnappers; it authorized Condon to be their intermediary with Lindbergh. [ 21 ]
St. Raymond’s Cemetery, where Dr. John F. Condon Sr. paid over the $50,000 ransom money to the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby New York Daily News Archive - Getty Images
John F. "Jafsie" Condon (June 1, 1860 – January 2, 1945) was an American college football coach and school principal. He was the first head football coach at Fordham University , serving for one season, in 1883, and compiling a record of 3–5. [ 1 ]
Lindbergh identifies the garment and also retrieves instructions for the rendezvous to pay the ransom. The Bronx, April 2, 1932. Condon and Lindbergh drive to a cemetery to hand over the ransom. Lindbergh stays in the car while Condon meets the kidnapper. The kidnapper speaks with a German accent and tells Condon that his name is John.
Dating back nearly 270 years, Flemington is brimming with history. But the Hunterdon County seat's most well-known claim to fame is that it was the site of the 1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial ...
Schwarzkopf suspected gang involvement, as kidnapping was a common criminal enterprise during the Great Depression, and wanted to contact members of the underworld, but during the course of the investigation, John F. Condon, a 72-year-old retired Bronx schoolteacher, became an intermediary between Lindbergh and the kidnappers after he placed an ...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German-born carpenter who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Wilentz's final star witness was John F. Condon, Lindbergh's go-between for the delivery of the ransom money, who testified that he had met Hauptmann and given the money to him. [4] After Wilentz's effective presentation of evidence, the jury returned a guilty verdict and Hauptmann was sentenced to death.