Post by Michael on Feb 18, 2020 10:21:09 GMT -5
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[Originally Created on 02-09-20]
Peter Birritella and Mary Cerrita, along with their Temple of Divine Power, have always interested me for many reasons. One is the ransom note of March 7 which was mailed to the New York office of Colonel Breckinridge. This note contained references not only to the March 4 ransom note which was received in the Hopewell mail on March 5 but also made connections with the March 6 séance that took place at the Princeton Inn in Princeton New Jersey.
Peter and Mary would enter the kidnapping case when, on March 6, 1932, Morris Rosner brought to Colonel Breckinridge's attention a telegram received at the Hopewell house that said:
Mrs. Anne Lindbergh
Hopewell, New Jersey
Communicate with me at once regarding your boy's whereabouts.
For full particulars Telephone Harlem -----
Reverend Peter Birritella
Rosner thought Birritella should be contacted so a call was placed and Peter was talked to. Birritella agreed to come to New Jersey that very day, March 6. Breckinridge would write about this encounter afterwards. I am going to post an excerpt from that memorandum which describes this meet up. My thanks go to board member Wayne who had shared this document with me in the past and has allowed me to use it in this post. Please note that the underscoring on this document is mine and does not appear on the original memorandum.
imgur.com/Tb7n9Or
As you see in this piece, Breck, along with Rosner, take Peter and Mary to a room that was already occupied by Captain Galvin and Breck's private investigator John Fogarty.
So how is it that Galvin and Fogarty already had a room at the Princeton Inn before Breck, Rosner, along with Peter and Mary had ever arrived in Princeton on March 6?
Well, it just so happens that Charles Lindbergh had Galvin and Fogarty driven to Princeton Inn in his own car during the evening hours of March 5. This is before the telegram is found by Rosner on March 6. This is before Birritella was ever telephoned, talked to, and said he would come that very same day, March 6, to Princeton New Jersey.
Lindbergh already knew on March 5 that Peter and Mary were coming to Princeton, NJ and sent Galvin and Fogarty, in advance, to take a room at Princeton Inn to be ready to receive them on March 6.
I offer here, as proof of this advance knowledge by Lindbergh, the police report of NJSP Trooper Maurice B. Connell, Badge #581 of Troop B. It clearly shows Lindbergh's advance preparation for the March 6, 1932 arrival of Peter Birritella and Mary Cerrita to Princeton New Jersey. Underscoring in this report regarding March 5, 1932 is mine and is not in the original document.
imgur.com/t6UN6e6
Lindbergh clearly knew on March 5, 1932 about an event that would take place on March 6, 1932 making advance preparations for it.
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[Originally Created on 02-09-20]
How Did Lindbergh Know?
Peter Birritella and Mary Cerrita, along with their Temple of Divine Power, have always interested me for many reasons. One is the ransom note of March 7 which was mailed to the New York office of Colonel Breckinridge. This note contained references not only to the March 4 ransom note which was received in the Hopewell mail on March 5 but also made connections with the March 6 séance that took place at the Princeton Inn in Princeton New Jersey.
Peter and Mary would enter the kidnapping case when, on March 6, 1932, Morris Rosner brought to Colonel Breckinridge's attention a telegram received at the Hopewell house that said:
Mrs. Anne Lindbergh
Hopewell, New Jersey
Communicate with me at once regarding your boy's whereabouts.
For full particulars Telephone Harlem -----
Reverend Peter Birritella
Rosner thought Birritella should be contacted so a call was placed and Peter was talked to. Birritella agreed to come to New Jersey that very day, March 6. Breckinridge would write about this encounter afterwards. I am going to post an excerpt from that memorandum which describes this meet up. My thanks go to board member Wayne who had shared this document with me in the past and has allowed me to use it in this post. Please note that the underscoring on this document is mine and does not appear on the original memorandum.
imgur.com/Tb7n9Or
As you see in this piece, Breck, along with Rosner, take Peter and Mary to a room that was already occupied by Captain Galvin and Breck's private investigator John Fogarty.
So how is it that Galvin and Fogarty already had a room at the Princeton Inn before Breck, Rosner, along with Peter and Mary had ever arrived in Princeton on March 6?
Well, it just so happens that Charles Lindbergh had Galvin and Fogarty driven to Princeton Inn in his own car during the evening hours of March 5. This is before the telegram is found by Rosner on March 6. This is before Birritella was ever telephoned, talked to, and said he would come that very same day, March 6, to Princeton New Jersey.
Lindbergh already knew on March 5 that Peter and Mary were coming to Princeton, NJ and sent Galvin and Fogarty, in advance, to take a room at Princeton Inn to be ready to receive them on March 6.
I offer here, as proof of this advance knowledge by Lindbergh, the police report of NJSP Trooper Maurice B. Connell, Badge #581 of Troop B. It clearly shows Lindbergh's advance preparation for the March 6, 1932 arrival of Peter Birritella and Mary Cerrita to Princeton New Jersey. Underscoring in this report regarding March 5, 1932 is mine and is not in the original document.
imgur.com/t6UN6e6
Lindbergh clearly knew on March 5, 1932 about an event that would take place on March 6, 1932 making advance preparations for it.
HOW DID LINDBERGH KNOW?
Contact: lindberghkidnap.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=amy35