Word: hauptmann
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...Bruno Hauptmann's twelve chosen peers were even moderately intelligent newspaper readers, they must have been entirely familiar with Attorney General David. T. Wilentz's preamble as he opened for the State of New Jersey. He traced the old ' story from the night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib, to May 12, 1932, when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder...
Suddenly Prosecutor Wilentz electrified the courtroom with news that was to many indeed new: "Hauptmann . . . has got this ladder right around his neck. . . . One rung of that ladder, one side of that ladder comes right from his attic, put on there with his tools, and we will prove it to you! . . . We demand the penalty of murder in the first degree...
...Lindbergh paraded the fact to any kidnapper lurking in the neighborhood that the child was in the house, at the same time giving the snatcher a good notion of the nursery's location. The prosecution plans to bring witnesses to the stand who will swear they saw Hauptmann lurking in the neighborhood...
...Lindbergh's footprints in the mud explain the mysterious "woman's" tracks which led investigators at first to believe the snatcher had a female accomplice. The State now contends that Hauptmann did the job alone...
...State, the child was probably killed when the ladder broke, its corpse stripped shortly after the kidnapper left the house. The sleeping suit was used as an earnest of good faith by the writer of the ransom notes, which the State's handwriting experts will attribute to Hauptmann...