Post by Michael on Jul 18, 2022 7:58:38 GMT -5
For anyone who has read V4, as you know, I addressed the Dwight Morrow Jr. theory in Chapter 9. I also mentioned it in Chapter 7 concerning the Donegan letter to Gov. Hoffman (pages 226-8). Since the letter mentioned that Ted Ransom had "shared his discoveries" with Gov. Moore and that Inspector Walsh also knew about it, I was always curious why such a letter did not exist at the NJSP Archives. One might argue that Hoffman removed it but its not in any of his collections there either. Of course, this falls into what I've tried to impress upon everyone in my books about the fact that various things are "missing" and even with the mountain of material located at the NJSP Archives, there's things that should be there but are not.
It's my experience with the various collections that anything Gov. Moore received at the time, he would forward it to Schwarzkopf. In fact, there's many letters in the State Police Correspondence files that originated from Moore. And so, I finally decided to go to the NJ State Archives, located in Trenton, to go thru the Moore files hoping they weren't originals or copies that were already at the NJSP. What I found were plenty of original letters, some of which were copied and sent to the NJSP where they are now. Others aren't there and this is the only place they reside. And further still, there are copies of replies for which there are no original letters either in Trenton or at the NJSP. Since there were only two boxes of material, its clear that there's a ton of missing material here too as well.
Anyway, one of my main targets was to find communication between Moore and Ransom. While I didn't find Ransom's letter, I did find a carbon copy of a response:
For me a find like this is great and leads to all kinds of possibilities. It "appears" that Moore was willing to get Walsh back into the fray despite Schwarzkopf's attitude towards him. Or - Moore was doing this without the knowledge of Schwarzkopf. Unfortunately, there's no follow up or anything else to go on. Since we know Walsh, in the end, believed Lindbergh was behind the crime (V1 pages 337-8), I've always wanted to get my hands on anything that may have led him down this path.