The year before the alleged story of the kidnap there were 400 kidnaps mostly attributed to the kidnap profesionals of the Purple Gang. The govenment was in a situation where gangland had taken over political families as a result and used the Lindbergh Case as Roosevelt had demonstrated to make it a federal crime. The Lindbergh Case was high profile enough to carry public sentiment against the bootleggers to end their era of crime.
We know that Bette Gow was questioned over possible association with the Purple Gang, but we don't have real knowledge of how or why Hauptmann had only $14,000.00 in gold certificates? This raises the question who was given the remaining $30,000.00 gold certificates completing the shell game used to with the Samuelson box to create the over dramatic cemetary story with CJ. Would any person that had the gold certificates realy tell you where he had them, but the keystone cops liked that fairy tale very much, as it was intended to create a dead end to the remainder of the gold certificates
The furniture dealer that had sold the Mersman Ransom Table Confession new CJ, and later had business dealings with his associates resulting from his gambling debts to them. This places the case back into Purple Gang Territory. This had caused the FBI to rethink some case details in the 50's double checking the Mersman Salesman. It appears that the VD'rs have overrun the case neglecting important issues in favor of their wood evidence in spite of the fact it lead to a nursery room not used that day.
Posted on Jun 11, 2007, 6:05 PM from IP address 66.213.21.18