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ay » oD red a Ha did this by the science of fractured flass. As you know, if I were to fire a pistol through a window-pane or through the windshield of an ‘automobile, our experts can reassemble the broken glass and, through tho science of fractured glass, convince you or any other sane-minded person which side of the glass the bullets entered. That's what our expert did in _this case. John Paul Chase was convicted and is today serving a life sen- tence for murder at the Federal Penitentiary at Alcatraz, off the West Coast of the United States. We use the teletype system very extensively in our criminal inves- tigation work. We have seven teletype machines in our administrative head- quarters in Washington. One of our clerks writes a message on one of these machines and instantaneously and simultaneously that message is reproduced on a similar teletype machines in all forty-seven of our field offices from coast to coast, or they can communicate with us,and with one another. > hink you gc be interested in one scisntific angle of the Lindbergh Kidnaping. Case. about which 211 of you have no doubt heard. I wish to make it, clear that the Federal Bureau of Investigation officially, and 1, personally, have no opinion about anybody'& innocence or guilt in a state or local crime as opposed to a Federal or National crime over which we do have jurisdiction. ‘The Lindbergh Kidnaping Case was purely and simply a state or local crime. At the time the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped in the State of New Jersey, it was not a Federal crime. Later on we did go into that case by Presidential proclamation, by instructions from the President of the United States, authorizing us to assist the local or New Jersey State authorities in the solution of that heinous crime, ~ T think wal cant Taman wilt he NoLLen wil oT I want to talk to you about one phase of our investigation in that Famous case. Three months -before HdUptmann, who. was eventually executed as the kidnaper- -murderer of the Lindbergh baby by the New Jersey State- authori- ties, was ever heard of or.suspected in connection with the Lindbergh Kidnap- ing Case, Mr. Hoover, as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Sent a cartoonist for a Washington newspaper to‘New York City to work with Dr. Condon or “Jafsie" who paid over $50,000 ransom money to somebody in a ceme- tery one night. Dr, Condon described and redescribed that individual. The cartoonist, drew and redrew his features from Dr. Condon’s oral description. hundreds of times, the eyes, the nase, the ears, the mouth, the teeth, the forehead, then two composite pictures, for more than Lwo days, until Dr. Condon said, "That's the man to whom I paid the ransom money." Wo exhibited those two drawn photographs to merchants and others in New York Gity who had re- ceived ransom bills and when thoy could remember, invariably thay «aid, "That's the man whe paid vo the ransom money." Here on the left are those two drawn photographs, a8 we had them in our possession more than three months before Hauptmann was ever heard of or suspected in connection with the Lindbergh Kid- naping Caso. Here on the right is a picture of Bruno Richard Hauptinann tak- en tho day our Agents arrested him in New York City, more than three months later. Those two drawn photographs are correct in every detail. They could literally have been drawn from.life. Ina nut, shell, we Knew exactly what the man we were looking for looked like, three months before. we knew wha ho was and three months before we arrested him and when we did arrest him more than three months. later,. he looked exactly like these two drawn photographs that wo