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Improbably, Flemington has managed to absorb the shopping influx without undue strain or violence to its historic setting. On Main Street, for instance, stands the 1828 Greek-revival Hunterdon County courthouse, famous as the site of the sensational 1935 trial of Bruno Hauptmann, who was convicted of kidnaping and killing aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby. Just a block away is the Clothing Mansion, a three-story emporium of discounted men's wear in a carefully preserved old home...
...wolf man is dead!" So wrote Broadway Bard Damon Runyon on the front page of the now defunct New York Daily Mirror as he led a nationwide chorus of ghoulish jubilation over the 1936 electrocution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted kidnaper of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh. Four decades later a forthcoming book, Scapegoat (Putnam), by Anthony Scaduto, a longtime crime reporter for the New York Post, argues that Hauptmann was innocent. Scaduto says he has unearthed police documents showing not only that someone other than Hauptmann cashed in most of the ransom certificates but that the authorities suppressed...
Died. Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark, 75, ingenious Hearst newspaper editor; after a long illness; in The Bronx. While night editor of the New York Journal-American in 1934, Shainmark suggested comparing handwriting samples of Suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann with ransom notes of the kidnaper of Charles Lindbergh's slain 20-month-old son. The result was the first concrete evidence against Hauptmann, who was later convicted, and a triumph for Shainmark...
Just as the rise of kidnaping skips mysteriously from nation to nation, the crime has changed in style over the years. The most celebrated kidnaping of the century involved a 20-month-old child, the son of Charles Lindbergh, who was killed by Bruno Hauptmann in 1932. The same fate awaited Bobby Greenlease, 6, in a notable tragedy of the 1950s. The theory was that kidnapers took small children so that they would not be identified, then killed them in fear. But recent kidnapings have more often involved adolescents, and instead of being killed they have been subjected to some...
That is not to say that pretrial publicity is never a hazard to justice. The longstanding argument over the rights of free press v. the rights to fair trial goes back, in its modern phase, to cases like the Lindbergh kidnaping: the courtroom at Bruno Hauptmann's trial turned into a grotesque circus, jammed with 150 reporters and cameramen. In the case of Cleveland Osteopath Sam Sheppard, accused of murdering his wife in 1954, the local newspapers ran a virtual crusade for conviction before and during the trial. Incredibly, the jurors at first were allowed to go home...