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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 ]
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 ]
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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
John Condon (British Army soldier) (1896–1915), previously thought to be the youngest British soldier killed in the First World War; John F. Condon (Lindbergh kidnapping), hired by Charles Lindbergh in 1932; John F. Condon (fl. 1883), American college football coach; John Condon (hurler) (1872–1944), Irish hurler; John P. Condon (1911 ...
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.