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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936.

MEDIUM'S

HAUPTMANN

She Foretold Where The Lindbergh

"MAN EXECUTED WAS NOT

THE KIDNAPPER”.

THE execution of Bruno Hauptmann merely ends one phase of the tragedy of the Lindbergh baby. America is now asking: How did Mary Corrita, the medium, wife of the Rev. Peter Birrittella, Inoïd that the baby would be found in the thicket she so accurately describetl, five miles from the Lindbergh home?.

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How did she buggy other matters, days before the police? A special investigator in New York is seeking to answer. these questions. She has acen the Birrittellas, whose extra- ordinary story, acceptable to spiritualists, is puzzling the hard- headed materialists in the case.

MAN WITH BROWN HAIR

By A Special Correspondent

On Sunday, March 6, 1932, Mary was in the Rev. Peter's "Temple of Divine Power", in East 127th Street, New York City,

This was a full week body was found.

before the

TIP TO POLICE She was not then married to him.

Birritella told me how he had per Sho was his pupil, running her own spiritualist church in the Bronx, sunded the police to net on this tip. Poter recalled: "I put Mary Into at was through an Italian acquaint trance. She said she could see the ance of his on the New York force, Baby in a small house on a hill, with "This time, too, Mary was able to a baldheaded man with heavy pouches jucate the spot," he continued. under his eyes, a younger man, and a

woman.

see the baby again,' she said, “and it

is still in a high place. But it is not a house. It is on the side of a hill, outdoors. It is within five miles

"We wired Colonel Lindbergh, and nearly two years later that telegram sent un to gaol and cost us 200 dol-of the place where it was stolen."" lars fine.

"But they sent for us at once. We went to Princeton, with a Bible,

"Wasn't I scared," broke. In Mary. "I had never been so far from home."

the

They told me they were met by Lindbergh lawyer, Colonel Breck- enridge, a man they knew ns Mickey (presumably the contnet man with the underworld) and questioned at length in an hotel.

GIRL IN A TRANCE

Then, necording to Birrettella, sho described with absolute accuracy the spot in the thicket by the roadsklo where the Negro, truck driver-subse- quently found the body,

"Did she see the kidnapper?" I asked.

"She saw the man who was burying

the baby, but he was not the man who did the actual kidnapping

"How do you know that?" "Anry had seen the kidnapper

before."

"In a trance?" "Yes-and one other time." Birrit Sensing that they made no impres-tella looked at his wife, and she sion, Peter threw Mary into a trance, smiled back.

She said, "I see initials. They are like a light. They are J. F. C."

This was three days before "Jafnie” Condon entered the ease.

Mary said just before leaving the trance, "You are wasting your time here, Mr. Breckenbridge. ~ You should go to your cilles. There is an import- int letter."

"It was while I was being ques tioned by Lieutenant Finn," she said. "How Finn and a shorter man arrested by him. He was the man with the cruel eyes and brown hair that Peter

him about in the itance I told

1 jumped at the conclusion that this must be Hauptmann; but, Mary This was on Sunday night. Peter vehemently denied that it was so. and Mary were sent home, but on the

"But how about this man who was following morning Breckenridge got burying the child?

is letter from the kalapporn ad with the pouches under his eyes that Was he the man dressed "Breckenbridge," exactly as

you saw in the little house? Mary had mispronounced it.

NOT INTERESTED

Mary and Poler never heard again.i from Lindbergh or Breckenridge, but they did hear plenty from Mickey. Mary was no longer interested; but

"He came to

my place at 111st her husband took up the story again: Street many times, sald Mary, "with "This was a man Mary had never a man named Owney Madden.

seen before. He had long hair, which Owney Madden in those days was fell over his forehead when he leaned ruputedly New York's biggest-shot over the baby." gang leader and it was he who had just offered a $100,000 secret reward to the underworld for the return of the Lindbergh baby,

the

Mickey's-persistence-kept-Mnry- and Peter keyed up about the cane. They kept trying Lo get more information from spirits. And it was in one of these attempt-in the presence, so they say, of Mickey and Mad- den-that they first saw the baby

dead.

"Leanci?"

"Yes. He had the dead baby in his arms, and was leaning over, burying

it on the side hill."

vision, they were left alone till January 29, 1934, when they were arrested for fortune telling, taken to |prison for fingerprinting, and fined."

This ends the Birrittella story, but the events which point, spy the mater inliste, to inside knowledge, began on | September 17, 1034.

Hauptmann stopped at the cornor of 127th-street and bought five gallons of petrol, tenderlng a ransons bill,

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Two days Inter Hauptmann was arrested, and on the third day, in Bronx County Courthouse, Haupt- Imann told the court that he had re- The alleged. Abyssinian, atrocities, about which the

evived the notes from Iendor Fisch, new dead, whe had formerly lived at Italians talk.so much, are "pure fabrications,” for when This dress is three doors from ill-treatment does occur in most cases the culprits are the Bling station.

And dingonally across the strent is roaming Somalis, many of whom are deserters from the

104, East Italian Armies.

1-19. Enst 127th-street.

Betty Gow.

127th-street,

where the This allegation was made to the Press Association at Cairo by Rev. Peter Dr. A. M. Rufail, Senior Medical Officer of the Egyptian Red

J. Birritella Crescent Mission, who had just arrived from Abyssinia.

conducted

his "Temple:

of Divine Power" where Mary

Gerrita +maile

iter

#rst traneo revelation on the kid-| Happing.

This Har Iem street now become |

T.B. CURE

BY USING

Dr. Rufail is sending a full report to Geneva on the subject, with particular reference to the statement which was alleged to have been made by three mem- bers of the Egyptian Medical

CHEMICALS? Mission and incorporated in the

Washington, May 10.

170

n street of Possibility of curing tuber suspicion. culosis by chemical injections Fisch'e was suggested here on the basis house had of

a nine-year study of the Also been the home of tuberculosis germ which proved

could manufacture nkelit

Klop chemicals, including three deadly penburg poisons. Haupt mann'

Dr. R. J. Anderson of Yale Univer- elosessity showed delegates to the annual friends.

meeting of the Federation of Ameri-

and

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Hauptmann on trips after he kad suddenly come into money. Kloppenburg had gone with tanpt- manu to a place near the Lindbergh home, ostensibly to build a chicken house for a mutual friend.

Serms.

Italian memorandum to the Lea- gue.

Dr. Rutai points out that these three men were dismissed for in subordination and unsatisfactory work.

He is also informing the League of the Italian use of poison gas,

"On January 4," he said, "I was' attending an Ethiopian soldier who had been severely gassed, when, nuddenly, tour Italian aeroplanes swooped down on the Daggabur Hospital and proceeded to drop 47, bombs,

air ruld on

Both friends hnd accompanied can Socialies for experimental | biology, the various compounds made

"I ran out into the open, followed by hillong and billions of three by Mr. Stokes, an English missionary, whereupon two of the planes chased us, dropping bombs until we reached Working with a dozen associates the shelter of a trench. A

Bying Hauptmann and his he sedan culosis Association, the Yale scientist spectacles, which I was carrying in unter spices of the National Tuber- bomb splinter shattered my were often seen in the street.

May not the Birrittellas have heard has put germs to work and then my hand.

that they analyzed the substances gossip about these mont

manufactured.

third of At least

"The ale reeked of gas for two May not they have received, as con- the 170 chemical substances isolated days following an. Tessors, definite information about

hast

no previous known connection Doggabur village on December 31," the crime?

with the taberele bacil and a few!

Referring to the statement, of the previously were unknown.

Dr. Anderson did not claim that a three dismissed men, that on Decem- "cure" would result from his work,ber, when proceeding to Bolali but others who examinedd his results from Daggabur, they encountered a possibility that these substances made two headless bodies, the leads car- pointed

out that it suggested the party of Ethiopian troops carrying by the gerin could be neutralized by ried on spears, and leading two chemicals. This would prevent their chained Italian prisoners, the doctor harmful effect and thus form the final states that he himself was conduct- link in efforts to chain the dreaded Ing the men to Boiali, and not only did they not incel any soldiers, but they did not see a single, prisoner.

Furthermore, the Emperor never and the statement

ftet Jolinson, buy friend of Betty Gow, the nurse, often visited the neighbourhood.

The late Septiarus Banks, the Morrows butler and aged admirer of

Violet Sharpe, the maid who com restaurant. mitted suicide, patronised a nearby

Violet Sharpe herself was affill: ated with the Birrittella spiritual- ist church,

So many strings lead to East 127th."white plague." street.

BOROUGH FINED

The Borough Council expressed

MICROSCOPE GERM

The tiny, germ, which is so small visited Bolall, that' one has to have a powerful that Dr. Sakhawal, or any other Junioroscope to see it takes a solution doctor, protested to the Emperor at Lontion, Apr. 28. f glycerine, salts and water-all Bolali against the ill-treatment of Clerkenwell has just imposed a found in the human body and con- prisoners by the Ethiopians "is false." fine of £10, with 10 guineas costs, This record of "manufacturing" can verts them into the 170 substances.

Referring to the mutilption of an on "The Mayor, Aldermen and be surpassed by human being only Italian airman when his plane. One week later the baby was found, Burgesses of the Borough of when they have an elaborate chemical crashed between dend, buried under leaves and sticks Swindon, for depositing for sale laboratory and the very latest aids Bolali towards the end of December Daggobur and "on a side hill, within five miles of two hindquarters of beef which of science.

1935, Dr. Rufali said:- the place where he ans stolen," in a were unit for food." spot which corresponded exactly in

Anderson said that even with 170 chemicals identified, he believed that "Immediately It was reported that all physical details to the location de their regret, and said they would not more than a third of the total an acroplane had crashed I was sent scribed by Mury in her trance.

After the sensation which followed take the necessary steps with had been isolated, the others await-out from Daggabur Hospital, with on the proving of the Birritella tranco- | regard to their officials.

escort of Ethiopian soldiers, with a ing future investigation.

The three deadly poisons, manu- Somali.guide, with instructions from factured by the germ eluded an the local Ethiopian chief, Fitaurari acid which Dr. Anderson had named Sheferran, to bury the dead pilot. "phthiple." sugar named

D. The other occupant was reported Arabinose, and a protein.

[missing. The experimenters believe that sick- ness la caused by these three. Thus "About 20 yards from the wrecked if chemicals which would counteract, Plane I found the pilot lying under or neutralize, them could be injected a bush. He was dead. His head. into the patient, ravages of the arms, and legs had been cut off. disease might be materially cut down, The Somali guide confessed he had if not entirely eliminated.

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Investigation under Dr. Anderson (rest. of the fatty substances and of the protein h carbohydrates under Prof. T. B. Johnson of Yale and Prof. "The observer of the machine had N. Heidelberger of Columbia during escaped into the woods, and both ecent years, has been the first

General Wahib Pasha and Fitaurari systematic chemical approach to the Sheferrau offered a reward for his effects of the tubercle bacilli ever capture alive, ordering that on no undertaken.

account was he to be hurt if cop- They sought to break down the fured. general groups into smaller divisions and these into small groups. When "Later he met a band of maraud- they found some new substance they ing Somalis, one of whom said that would try to create it themselves he had met the observer in the woods from chemicals in their laboratories, and that the Italian had fred at him. In some cases they were successful The Somall stated that he killed him in doing in the laboratory for the in self-defence. He was immediately first time what the germs do in the put under arrest." human body.

Explaining the story, Dr. Rufail Research by Dr. Florence Sabin of pointed out that the mutilation was the Rockefeller Institution for Medi- the work of Somalis, many of whom cal Research, New York City, showed are deserters from the Italian forces, that the acid itself does not produce who live in a fierce, cruel life of the disease but that when an Indivi- banditry and murder. dual is infected. The "phthisic" acid

apparently plays some part in the "When n. Somali finds a wounded growth of the cheesy-like Lubereleman, whether he is an Ethiopian or nodules which characterize the Italian, he kills and mutilates him disease.-United Prest

in order to rob him of his prized ammunition and weapons."..

"GRAIN DERBY" STARTS WINDJAMMERS GETTING FEWER

When Dr. Rutali found the acro plane it had been completely des troyed by marauding Somalis, who, had stolen every single piece of bright metal, the tyres, and all in- struments.

Eighteen sailing ships are competi If the Ethiopian soldiers had found ing in this year's "grain Derby" to the machine they would have mount- England from Australia, Elght are fed guard and the plane would have. already homeward bound:

been salvaged and repaired, since, Each year, the number is diminish-ernshing, it had not been damaged ing as the famous old windfanimers

beyond repair. go out of commission. In 1934 there. Dr. Rufail also refutes the allega- were 24, and last year, 21. In the lon that Dedjasmatch Nassibu prosent race, says Austral Nowe, machine-gunned Italian bombing English, Swedish, German, and planes from Daggabur Hospital. French barques are competing, in-Nassibu was never near tire hospital cluding such ships, as the Harzugim during an air raid, and whenever Ceellie, Parma, Viking, Avenir and he visited the hospital he was ul Archibald Russell.

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