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Mar 5, 2009 · LINDBERGH CASE: THE BRONX. March 5, 2009. guest post by DON GILLIGAN. On March 1, 1932, 77 years ago (in 2009), at about 9:00 PM, someone placed a homemade ladder against the wall of the Lindbergh home in Hopewell, NJ and set in motion a series of events that would culminate three years later in a trial that journalist H. L. Mencken would call ...
In New York City, concerned citizen Dr John Condon (Joseph Cotten) decides to write to the Bronx Home News newspaper to offer himself as an intermediary in the ransom exchange. Condon receives a reply from the kidnapper and telephones Lindbergh, giving him confirmation that the letter has the unique signature with three holes in the paper with a demand for $70,000.
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At the time of the Lindbergh abduction, Dr. John Francis Condon was a 72 year-old semi-retired educator and resident of the Bronx a New York City borough he dubbed the most beautiful . . . in the world. Dr. Condon was educated at the College of the City of New York and Fordham University. He taught in New York City schools for over forty years ...
On March 9, 1932, John F. Condon, a 72-year-old retired teacher and coach from the Bronx, called the Lindberghs claiming that he had made contact with the kidnappers. Condon had written a letter ...
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Oct 30, 2023 · Charles Lindbergh. Charles Augustus Limbergh Jr. was taken from his crib at the family home in Hopewell, New Jersey, by a home invader at around 9 p.m. on March 1. Lindbergh and his wife, Anne ...
Dec 1, 2021 · Lindbergh and Condon met to discuss the response to the note and at this time Lindbergh authorized Condon to place a note in the New York American newspaper as the kidnapper had instructed. 7 On March 12, 1932, at 8:30 p.m., a taxi driver rang the doorbell of Condon’s house and handed him a letter which turned out to be from the kidnapper.
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Seven days after the abduction, Dr. John F. Condon, a retired grade school principal and chronic busybody in the Bronx, but unknown to both Lindbergh and the kidnapper, injected himself into the case. In a letter to the Bronx Home News, Condon offered to be the go-between, regarding the ransom payment and return of the baby.
